What is the best Glenn Close movie?

By YPB Team

Glenn Close has delivered some of cinema's most electrifying performances—from the obsessive Alex in Fatal Attraction to the imperious Marquise de Merteuil. Which of her films is your absolute favorite?

Fatal Attraction (1987)

Close delivers a career-defining, Oscar-nominated performance as Alex Forrest, a scorned woman whose obsessive pursuit of a married man turns dangerously violent.

1000pts

Hillbilly Elegy (2020)

Close transforms as Mamaw, a fiercely loving but rough-edged Appalachian grandmother, earning an Oscar nomination for this Netflix drama about family and poverty.

918pts

Jagged Edge (1985)

Close plays defense attorney Teddy Barnes who becomes dangerously entangled with her client, a charming newspaper publisher accused of murdering his wife.

857pts

Mars Attacks! (1996)

Close plays the glamorous and ultimately unlucky First Lady Marsha Dale in Tim Burton's anarchic sci-fi comedy about a full-scale alien invasion.

734pts

The World According to Garp (1982)

Her acclaimed film debut as Jenny Fields, an eccentric feminist icon and fiercely unconventional mother, earned Close her first Academy Award nomination.

642pts

Albert Nobbs (2011)

Close gives a brave and intimate performance as a cross-dressing Irish hotel butler secretly living as a man for decades and dreaming of independence.

642pts

Reversal of Fortune (1990)

Close portrays Sunny von Bülow, the comatose heiress at the center of her husband's notorious attempted murder trial, in this unsettling true-crime drama.

642pts

Dangerous Liaisons (1988)

Close plays the coolly calculating Marquise de Merteuil, orchestrating aristocratic seduction games in 18th-century France in this Oscar-nominated role.

514pts

101 Dalmatians (1996)

Close brings Disney's iconic villain Cruella de Vil to live-action life with gleeful menace in this box-office hit that earned her a Golden Globe nomination.

514pts

The Big Chill (1983)

Close plays Sara, the heart of a college friend group reuniting after a suicide, in this Oscar-nominated ensemble drama about idealism fading into adulthood.

321pts

The Natural (1984)

Close plays the mysterious and luminous Iris Lemon, the woman whose belief in Roy Hobbs inspires one of cinema's most iconic baseball moments.

321pts

The Wife (2018)

Close gives a masterful performance as Joan Castleman, a woman who finally confronts decades of sacrificing her literary genius for her husband's Nobel Prize-winning career.

321pts

Air Force One (1997)

Close plays Vice President Kathryn Bennett, navigating a harrowing hijacking crisis with steely resolve in this blockbuster political action thriller.