RECENT CREDITS
Graham Norton Show (TV)  Dec. 8, 2007
Late Night With Conan O'Brien (TV)  Aug. 8, 2007
Late Show With David Letterman (TV)  Aug. 3, 2007
Tonight Show With Jay Leno (TV)  Jul. 20, 2007


HIGHLIGHTS
Grandfather Edward Bennett Close was once married to cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post, the mother of actress Dina Merrill. Close is also a second cousin of Brooke Shields, and is distantly re
Father, a physician, opened a clinic in Congo when Close was 13.
Was a member of the educational folk troupe Up With People in the '60s.
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All Credits

Film Name / TV Show Name (Episode Name)
Role
Category

Evening  2007 -Mrs. Wittenborn
Actor
Film


Hoodwinked  2006 -Granny
Voice
Film


The Chumscrubber  2005 -Mrs. Johnson
Actor
Film


Nine Lives  2005 -Maggie
Actor
Film


Heights  2005 -Diana Lee
Actor
Film


The Stepford Wives  2004 -Claire Wellington
Actor
Film


Anything Else  2003
Actor
Film


Le Divorce  2003 -Olivia Pace
Actor
Film


The Safety of Objects  2003 -Esther Gold
Actor
Film


Pinocchio  2002 -The Blue Fairy [U.S. Version]
Voice
Film


102 Dalmatians  2000 -Cruella De Vil
Actor
Film


Tarzan  1999 -Kala
Voice
Film


Hook  1991 -Gutless
Actor
Film


Meeting Venus  1991 -Karin Anderson
Actor
Film


Reversal of Fortune  1990 -Sunny Von Bulow
Actor
Film


Immediate Family  1989 -Linda Spector
Actor
Film


Dangerous Liaisons  1988 -Marquise De Merteuil
Actor
Film


Light Years  1988
Voice
Film


Fatal Attraction  1987 -Alex Forrest
Actor
Film


Brush with Fate   -Cornelia Englebrecht
Actor
TV


In the Gloaming   -Janet
Actor
TV


Sarah, Plain and Tall   -Sarah Wheaton
Actor
TV


Actor
TV


Saturday Night Live  1989-1992
Host
TV
Expand


Actor
TV


Something About Amelia   -Gail Bennett
Actor
TV


Actor
TV


The Ballad of Lucy Whipple   -Arvella Whipple
Actor
TV


Narrator
TV


The Elephant Man   -Princess Alexandra
Actor
TV


Actor
TV


The Shield  2005 -Capt. Monica Rawling
Actor
TV
Expand


Actor
TV


West Wing   -Evelyn Baker Lang
Actor
TV
Expand


Will & Grace   -Fannie Lieber
Actor
TV
Expand


Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her  2000 -Dr. Elaine Keener
Actor
Film


Cookie's Fortune  1999 -Camille Orcutt
Actor
Film


In & Out  1997 -Herself
Actor
Film


Air Force One  1997 -Vice President Kathryn Bennett
Actor
Film


Paradise Road  1997 -Adrienne Pargiter
Actor
Film


Mars Attacks!  1996 -Marsha Dale
Actor
Film


101 Dalmatians  1996 -Cruella De Vil
Actor
Film


Mary Reilly  1996 -Mrs. Farraday
Actor
Film


The House of the Spirits  1994 -Ferula
Actor
Film


The Paper  1994 -Alicia Clark
Actor
Film


Hamlet  1990 -Gertrude
Actor
Film


Jagged Edge  1985 -Teddy Barnes
Actor
Film


Voice
Film


The Natural  1984 -Iris Gaines
Actor
Film


The Big Chill  1983 -Sarah
Actor
Film


Actor
Film


The Lion in Winter   -Eleanor Of Aquitaine
Actor
Film


Actor
Film


Too Far to Go   -Rebecca
Actor
Film


Actor
Film


The Stone Boy   -Ruth Hillerman
Actor
Film


The World According to Garp   -Jenny Fields
Actor
Film


Executive Producer
Film


Anne Frank Remembered   -Diary Readings
Voice, Intertitle Writer
Film


A Closer Walk   -Narrator
Voice
Film


Baby   -Adult Sophie
Executive Producer, Voice
Film


Brush With Fate   -Cornelia
Actor
Film


Voice
Film


Cody   -Narrator
Voice
Film


Journey  
Executive Producer
Film


Actor
Film


Actor
Film


Home   -Narrator
Voice
Film


Maxie   -Jan/Maxie
Actor
Film


Voice
Film


Voice
Film


Voice
Film


Lincoln: The Pivotal Year, 1863   -Mary Todd Lincoln
Voice
Film


Voice
Film


Orphan Train   -Jessica
Actor
Film


Tarzan II   -Kala
Voice
Film


The A Factor   -Narrator
Voice
Film


Sarah 2  
Actor
Film


Actor, Executive Producer
Film


Sarah, Plain and Tall   -Sarah Wheaton
Actor
Film


Actor, Executive Producer
Film


Skylark   -Sarah Witting
Actor, Executive Producer
Film


Something About Amelia   -Gail Bennett
Actor
Film


South Pacific   -Nellie Forbush
Actor
Film


Stones for Ibarra   -Sara Everton
Actor
Film




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Highlights

Grandfather Edward Bennett Close was once married to cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post, the mother of actress Dina Merrill. Close is also a second cousin of Brooke Shields, and is distantly re
Father, a physician, opened a clinic in Congo when Close was 13.
Was a member of the educational folk troupe Up With People in the '60s.
Made her Broadway debut in the 1974 revival of William Congreve's Love for Love.
Was the fourth choice for her Oscar-nominated role in Fatal Attraction after Debra Winger, Barbara Hershey and Miranda Richardson.
Narrated the Grammy-nominated animated stories The Emperor and the Nightingale and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; other voice work has included Repeat the Sounding Joy, a Christmas
An avid New York Mets fan, Close has sung the national anthem at Shea Stadium.


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