She was innate into the society personal & attended Choate Rosemary Hall, an elite boarding school within Connecticut, & a College of William and Mary, becoming a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Her agnate grandpthe, Edward Bennett Close, a stockbroker, was number 1 married to Post Cereals' inheritress Marjorie Merriweather Post, which makes Glenn Close a relative by marriage and/or blood to screenwriter/director Preston Sturges and actress Dina Merrill. She as well occurs as distant full cousin of Brooke Shields.

Close is remembered for her chilling roles when a scheming blue blood Madame de Merteuil inside Dangerous Liaisons and as a psychotic book editor Alex within Fatal Attraction. She has been nominated for Little phoebe Academy Awards, for Best Actress in Dangerous Liaisons and Fatal Attraction and for Best Supporting Actress in The Natural, The Big Chill and The World According to Garp.

In the 1990s, Close took in challenging roles on television too. She starred in the extremely rated presentation of the 1991 Hallmark Hall of Fame drama Sarah, Plain and Tall (& its ii sequels) and likewise in the processed-for-TV film Serving inside Silence: A Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995); from these roles she was nominated for Eighter Emmys (winning one) & Heptad Golden Globes. Around 2001 she starred in an elaborate production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic musical South Pacific. Inside 2005, Close joined the FX crime series The Shield, in which she played the there are no-nonsense precinct captain. Yet, Close chose to leave fallowing only of these year.

Recently, it was announced that Close might reprise a role of Norma Desmond in the 2006 film Sunset Boulevard, based on a Andrew Lloyd Webber musical of the same name. Close won the Tony award playing the role in Broadway in 1994.

Broadway productions
Musicals
Rex (1976) - Richard Rodgers musical about Henry VIII Barnum (1980) - musical about Phineas T. Barnum Sunset Boulevard (1994) - Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based on a classic 1950 movie Sunset Boulevard starring Gloria Swanson in Close's role of faded screen star Norma Desmond.

Drama
Love for Love (1974) A Cruciferous plant of Blood (1978) The Real Thing (1983) - Tom Stoppard play Helper (1985) Death and the Maiden (1992)

Filmography
The World According to Garp (1982) The Big Chill (1983) Greystroke: Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) (dubbing voice for Andie MacDowell) The Stone Boy (1984) The Natural (1984) Jagged Edge (1985) Maxie (1985) Fatal Attraction (1987) Light Years (1988) (voice) Dangerous Liaisons (1988) Immediate Family (1989) Reversal of Fortune (1990) Hamlet (1990) Meeting Venus (1991) Hook (1991) (Cameo) The House of the Spirits (1993) The Paper (1994) Mary Reilly (1996) 101 Dalmatians (1996) Mars Attacks! (1996) Paradise Road (1997) Air Force One (1997) In & Out (1997) (Cameo) ''Cookie's Fortune (1999) Tarzan (1999) (voice) Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000) Welcome to Hollywood (2000) (documentary) 102 Dalmatians (2000) The Safety of Objects (2001) What I Want My Words to Do to You: Voices from Inside a Women's Maximum Security Prison (2003) (documentary) Le Divorce (2003) A Closer Walk (2004) (documentary) (teller) The Stepford Wives (2004) Heights (2004) Nine Lives (2005) The Chumscrubber (2005) Paint (2005) (currently around post-production) Therese Raquin (2006) (currently within post-production) Sunset Boulevard (2006) (currently in pre-production)

TV Work
The Rules of the Game (1975) Too Far to Go (1979) Orphan Train (1979) The Elephant Man (1982) Something About Amelia (1984) Stones for Ibarra (1988) She'll Take Romance (1990) Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991) (also executive producer) Skylark (1993) (also executive producer) Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995) (also executive producer) In the Gloaming (1997) Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End (1999) (also executive producer) Baby (2000) (voice only) (too executive producer) The Ballad of Lucy Whipple (2001) (also executive producer) South Pacific (2001) (also executive producer) Brush with Fate (2003) The Lion in Winter (2003) Strip Search (2004) The Shield'' (cast member from 2005-present)