Glenn Close is the most overdue living actress in Oscars history, earning eight nominations and zero wins. But the competition was strong every time.
Glenn Close has been nominated for multiple Oscars over the course of 40 years, but she has never got ahold of a statuette. She kicked off her career on Broadway and had her breakthrough role in The World According to Garp in 1982 when director George Roy Hill asked her to audition with Robin Williams, and she earned her first Oscar nomination right away. Close has a natural talent for comedy and a flair for drama; that's how her performances are so charming and easy to relate to.
The Big Chill One year after The World According to Garp, Glenn Close joined The Big Chill's cast in what would be one of her most popular roles: Sarah Cooper, a sensitive young woman who let the past get over her head. In the film, seven college friends reunite after the funeral of Alex Marshall, whom Sarah had an affair with.
Fatal Attraction Close was 40 years old when she received her first Oscar nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, for one of the year's most controversial contenders. In Fatal Attraction, Close plays a character considered one of the greatest villains in movie history: Alex Forrest, an unpredictable psychopath who turns her married lover's life to hell when she begins to stalk him and threaten his family.
Albert Nobbs Twenty years after Glenn Close's nomination for Dangerous Liaisons, she returned to the awards game with a role playing a woman playing a man. In Albert Nobbs, Close is an Irish woman who decides to pose as a man to break free from the shackles of a conservative 19th-century society.
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