Los Angeles, CA (The Hollywood Times) 1/9/25 – The incomparable American actress Glenn Close received an AARP Movies for Grownups Career Achievement Award at a ceremony hosted by Alan Cumming that was held in Beverly Hills on Saturday, January 11th, 2025. Close shares the honor with pre-eminent Hollywood stars such as George Clooney, Kevin Costner, Jamie Lee Curtis, Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman, Shirley MacLaine, Helen Mirren, Robert Redford, Susan Sarandon, and Sharon Stone who continue to defy the acting profession’s ageist stereotypes and remain productive after the age of 50. The all-star awards ceremony will be broadcast on PBS Great Performances in February. Check your local listings!
Glenn Close (Stephane Cardinale / Corbis / Getty Images)
A thirtysomething Close started to cut the edge in complex and challenging films such as 1982’s THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP, 1983’s THE BIG CHILL, and especially 1988’s DANGEROUS LIAISONS where her aristocratic character’s manipulative scheming ultimately causes her to be booed in public by 18-century French society. The young Glenn Close will always be best remembered for her role as a murderous marriage wrecker with hair by Medusa in Adrian Lyne’s 1987 romantic melodrama FATAL ATTRACTION.
The older Glenn Close continued to score hit after hit in socially conscious films such as 2018’s THE WIFE, 2020’s FOUR GOOD DAYS and HILLBILLY ELEGY, and 2024’s THE DELIVERANCE as well as the highly rated legal television series DAMAGES, which ran from 2007 to 2012. Standout later roles for Close included her delicious turn as villainess Cruella De Vil in 1996’s 101 DALMATIANS and 2000’s sequel 102 DALMATIANS.
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Close joined classically trained thespians of her time such as Jane Alexander, Laura Linney, and Meryl Streep in crafting unforgettable female roles that consistently defy expectations. This viewer was particularly impressed by her unexpectedly sensitive work in the three Hallmark made for television movies based upon the SARAH, PLAIN AND TALL book series for young readers authored by Patricia MacLachlan. Close plays a crusty yet compassionate mail-order bride from early 20th-century Maine who relocates to Kansas.
Close’s performances in classic plays such as LOVE FOR LOVE, THE REAL THING, DEATH AND THE MAIDEN, SUNSET BOULEVARD, and A DELICATE BALANCE caused her star to rise on Broadway as well as in Hollywood. This critically acclaimed actress of screen and stage has won two AARP Movies for Grownups Awards as well as three Primetime Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, three Tony Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Critics Choice Award, and a People’s Choice Award.
AARP to honor Glenn Close with Movies for Grownups career achievement award
Oscar gold has eluded the unstoppable Close eight times, but talent like hers is certain to triumph in the end. ”’I’m not gonna be IGNORED!” as Alex Forrest from FATAL ATTRACTION might say. Warmest congratulations to Glenn Close for this meaningful accolade from the AARP.
