Trivia
- On January 13, 2008, Glenn Close won the Golden Globe Award in the "Actress in a Leading Role - Drama Series" category for her performance in Damages.
- Glenn was chosen as one of People Magazine's annual 100 Most Beautiful People in the World, Beauty over 60, in May 2007.
- Glenn's second cousin is actress Brooke Shields.
- In 1994, Glenn was chosen by Andrew Lloyd Webber to replace Patti LuPone in Sunset Boulevard before it's arrival on Broadway.
- When Glenn was a teenager, the family moved to what is now Zaire, in Africa where her doctor father ran a clinic.
- Glenn was actually the fourth choice to play Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction. The first choices were Debra Winger, Barbara Hershey, and Miranda Richardson.
- As of February 2006, Glenn has been nominated for 5 Academy Awards, but has never won.
- Glenn is mostly known for playing "crazy woman" Alex Forrest in the 1987 film Fatal Attraction.
- In 1995, Glenn won her first Emmy Award for her role in the TV movie, Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story .
- Glenn received her first Emmy nomination in 1984 for her performance in the TV movie, Something About Amelia.
- Glenn owns a bookstore and coffee shop with her sister, Jessie in Bozeman, Montana.
- Glenn sings the National Anthem for the New York Mets' home opener every year.
- Glenn spent her first few years on a 250-acre farm with her parents, two sisters, and brother.
- In the 1970's, Glenn dated actor Kevin Kline. She later played his wife in the 1983 film The Big Chill.
- Glenn was hired to dub all of Andie MacDowell's dialogue in the 1984 film Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, because Andie had such a heavy southern accent.
- In 1987, Glenn gave birth to daughter Annie Maude Starke.
- Glenn likes to keep all her costumes from each film that she is in.
- Glenn lived with actor Len Cariou from 1979-83.
- While attending College of William and Mary, Glenn was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
- Glenn graduated from College of William and Mary with B.A.'s in both Drama and Anthropology.
- In 1965, Glenn graduated from Rosemary Hall in Greenwich, Connecticut.
- In 1974, Glenn made her Broadway debut in The Phoenix Theatre's production of Congrieve's Love for Love.
- On February 3rd 2006, Glenn married her third husband David Shaw.
