Actress Glenn Close was born in the United States on March 19, 1947. Close has received several honours throughout the course of a career spanning more than four decades, including two Screen Actors Guild Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and three Tony Awards.

Glenn Close parents: Meet William Taliaferro Close, Bettine Moore Close

The socialite Elizabeth Mary Hester Moore (Moore) and the physician William Taliaferro Close, who ran a clinic in the Belgian Congo and was Mobutu Sese Seko’s personal physician, welcomed Glenn Close into the world on March 19, 1947, in Greenwich, Connecticut. Tina and Jessie are her two sisters, while Tambu Misoki and Alexander (also known as Sandy) and Close’s parents’ adoptive children from the Congo are her two brothers.

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She has also received eight Academy Award nominations, which is a record for the most nominations in an acting category without a victory (tied with Peter O’Toole). In 2016, she was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame, and in 2019, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most important people in the world.