Glenn Close Bio
Glenn Close is an actress whose career spans five decades. She has won several honors, including three Primetime Emmys, three Tony honors, and three Golden Globes. Close has also been nominated for eight Academy Awards, two BAFTAs, and three Grammy Awards. In 2019, she was named one of the World’s 100 Most Influential People.
How old is Glenn Close?
The long term actress is 78 years old as of 19 March 2025. She was born on 19 March 1947 in Greenwich, Connecticut, United States.
Is Glenn Close related to Princess Diana? Family
Yes, Princess Diana is related to Glenn. According to a genealogical website, Glenn’s seventh great-grandparents, Sarah and Joseph Strong, are their closest shared ancestors, making them eighth cousins. According to a YouTube video, they even had a face-to-face meeting in 1989 while Glenn was in England promoting a movie, but neither of them knew they were related.
Close was born to socialite Elizabeth Mary Hester “Bettine” (née Moore) and doctor William Taliaferro Close, who ran a clinic in the Belgian Congo and was the personal physician to Congolese dictator Mobutu Sese Seko.Close has two sisters, Tina and Jessie, and two boys, Alexander (nicknamed Sandy) and Tambu Misoki, whom her parents adopted while living in Congo. Close spent her childhood living with her parents in a stone home on her maternal grandfather’s estate in Greenwich.
Close’s Spouse
Close has been married three times, each of which ended in divorce. Her first marriage, which she entered at the age of 22, terminated before she could attend college. From 1969 to 1971, she married Cabot Wade, then actor Len Cariou from 1979 to 1983, and finally grocery heir James Marlas from 1984 to 1987.
Close then started a relationship with producer John Starke, whom she met on the production of The World According to Garp. Their daughter, Annie Starke, was born in 1988. Close was engaged to carpenter Steve Beers in 1995, but they never married. In 2006, she married David Evans Shaw, an executive and venture capitalist, but the couple divorced in 2015. Close’s first grandchild was born in February 2025.
Actress Close’s Daughter
She has a daughter, film and Broadway actress Annie Starke Albu from her relationship with movie producer John Starke. She was born on April 26, 1988. Starke is an equestrian who won the Children’s Modified Jumper Championship at the 32nd Winter Equestrian Festival in Florida in February 2004 when she was just 15 years old.
Close’s Net Worth
The actress has accumulated a net worth of $50 million.
Where does Glenn Close Live?
Close lives largely in Bedford Hills, New York, but also has a condo in the West Village. She also owns property in Wellington, Florida and Bozeman, Montana. In the early 1990s, she had a coffee business in Bozeman, which she sold in 2006. In 2011, Close sold her Beresford apartment for $10.2 million. She also manages a 1,000-acre (400-hectare) ranch in Wyoming.
How much did Glenn Close get paid for damages?
Close received $200,000 each episode for her appearance in the television series Damages. She appeared in 59 episodes over five seasons, earning nearly $12 million for her role in the show.
Why is Glenn Close wearing gloves all the time?
In the Amazon MGM Studios film Brothers, Close wears gloves in all scenes. This is because, in the original script, Close’s character severed the tips of her fingers so she wouldn’t leave fingerprints anywhere while in Mexico. This element was supposed to be disclosed during the bar scene, but it was deleted from the finished film.