Credits

• 2025 · The Summer Book as Grandmother
• 2025 · Back in Action as
• 2024 · Brothers as Cath
• 2024 · Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story as Self
• 2024 · The Deliverance as Alberta Jackson
• 2024 · A Look Through His Lens as Self
• 2023 · Heart of Stone as King of Diamonds
• 2023 · Tom Hanks: The Nomad as Self (archive footage)
• 2022 · The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window as The Woman in Seat 2A (uncredited)
• 2021 · Swan Song as Dr. Eve Scott
• 2021 · Boulevard! A Hollywood Story as Self (archive footage)
• 2021 · Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age as Self
• 2021 · Four Good Days as Deb
• 2021 · Baba Yaga as Chief (voice)
• 2020 · Hillbilly Elegy as Bonnie "Mamaw" Vance
• 2020 · In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover as Cruella de Vil
• 2020 · 537 Votes as Self (archive footage)
• 2020 · The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America as Roy Cohn
• 2020 · Tehran as Marjan Montazeri
• 2020 · Celebrity IOU as Self
• 2019 · The Lavender Scare as Narrator (voice)
• 2019 · Desus & Mero as Self
• 2018 · 3Below: Tales of Arcadia as Mother (voice)
• 2018 · Let's Dance as Segment: "Night Shift"
• 2018 · The Wife as Joan Castleman
• 2018 · Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar as Self
• 2017 · Father Figures as Helen Baxter
• 2017 · Marcians as Self - Interviewee
• 2017 · Sea Oak as Aunt Bernie
• 2017 · The Wilde Wedding as Eve Wilde
• 2017 · Crooked House as Lady Edith de Haviland
• 2017 · What Happened to Monday as Nicolette Cayman
• 2016 · The Girl with All the Gifts as Dr. Caroline Caldwell
• 2016 · Warcraft as Alodi (uncredited)
• 2016 · Anesthesia as Marcia Zarrow
• 2015 · The Great Gilly Hopkins as Nonnie Hopkins
• 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
• 2015 · Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
• 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
• 2014 · Guardians of the Galaxy as Nova Prime
• 2014 · Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as Self
• 2014 · 5 to 7 as Arlene Bloom
• 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
• 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as
• 2014 · Low Down as Gram
• 2013 · Six by Sondheim as Self (archive footage)
• 2013 · Love, Marilyn as Self
• 2012 · Casting By as Self
• 2012 · Finding Your Roots as Self
• 2012 · Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
• 2011 · Albert Nobbs as Albert Nobbs
• 2011 · Touch of Evil as The Vamp
• 2011 · Discovering Hamlet as Gertrude (archive footage)
• 2011 · Not My Life as Narrator (voice)
• 2011 · Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil as Granny (voice)
• 2009 · My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story as Self
• 2009 · C à vous as Self
• 2009 · Home as Narrator (english voice)
• 2009 · Late Night with Jimmy Fallon as Self
• 2009 · Peter Matthiessen: No Boundaries as Self - Hostess
• 2008 · Gates of the Arctic as Narrator (voice)
• 2007 · Damages as Patty Hewes
• 2007 · Evening as Mrs. Wittenborn
• 2007 · Gabon The Last Eden as Narrator
• 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
• 2005 · Hoodwinked! as Granny (voice)
• 2005 · Hollywood's Greatest Villains as Self
• 2005 · Nine Lives as Maggie
• 2005 · Heights as Diana
• 2005 · Tarzan II as Kala (voice)
• 2005 · The Chumscrubber as Carrie Johnson
• 2005 · Nos Bastidores de Hollywood as Self
• 2004 · The Stepford Wives as Claire Wellington
• 2004 · Strip Search as Karen Moore
• 2004 · Tracking 'The Lion in Winter' as Self
• 2003 · The Lion in Winter as Eleanor of Aquitaine
• 2003 · What I Want My Words to Do to You as Self
• 2003 · In Search of the Jaguar as Narrator
• 2003 · The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
• 2003 · Le Divorce as Olivia Pace
• 2003 · Brush with Fate as Cornelia Engelbrecht
• 2002 · The Safety of Objects as Esther Gold
• 2002 · Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back as Self
• 2002 · The Shield as Captain Monica Rawling
• 2001 · South Pacific as Nellie Forbush
• 2001 · The Ballad of Lucy Whipple as Arvella Whipple
• 2000 · Baby as Adult Sophie (voice)
• 2000 · 102 Dalmatians as Cruella de Vil
• 2000 · Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her as Dr. Elaine Keener (segments "This is Dr. Keener" and "Fantasies about Rebecca")
• 1999 · Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End as Sarah Witting
• 1999 · Saturday Night Live: The Best of Adam Sandler as Gina (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1999 · The West Wing as Evelyn Baker Lang
• 1999 · Tarzan as Kala (voice)
• 1999 · Cookie's Fortune as Camille Dixon
• 1999 · Family Guy as Glenn Close (voice)
• 1999 · The Big Chill: A Reunion as Self
• 1999 · The Lady with the Torch as Self - Host
• 1998 · Welcome to Hollywood as Glenn Close
• 1998 · Will & Grace as Fannie Lieber
• 1998 · Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration as Self - Performer
• 1997 · In & Out as Glenn Close (uncredited)
• 1997 · The View as Self
• 1997 · Air Force One as Vice President Kathryn Bennett
• 1997 · Leute heute as Self
• 1997 · In the Gloaming as Janet
• 1997 · Paradise Road as Adrienne Pargiter
• 1996 · Mars Attacks! as Marsha Dale
• 1996 · 101 Dalmatians as Cruella de Vil
• 1996 · The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest
• 1996 · The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful as Self
• 1996 · Mary Reilly as Mrs. Farraday
• 1995 · MADtv as Self
• 1995 · Anne Frank Remembered as Diary Readings (voice)
• 1995 · Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story as Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer
• 1994 · Inside the Actors Studio as Self
• 1994 · Ellen as Glenn Close
• 1994 · The Paper as Alicia Clark
• 1993 · The House of the Spirits as Ferula Trueba
• 1993 · Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
• 1993 · Skylark as Sarah Witting
• 1992 · Lincoln as Mary Todd Lincoln (voice)
• 1992 · Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall as Self
• 1991 · Pebble Mill as Self
• 1991 · Meeting Venus as Karin Anderson
• 1991 · Hook as Gutless
• 1991 · Sarah, Plain and Tall as Sarah Wheaton
• 1991 · Mel Gibson Goes Back to School as Gertrude (archive footage)
• 1990 · Hamlet as Gertrude
• 1990 · The Divine Garbo as Self - Host / Narrator
• 1990 · Reversal of Fortune as Sunny von Bülow / Narrator
• 1990 · Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music as Self
• 1989 · The Simpsons as Mona Simpson (voice)
• 1989 · An Amazin Era: Revised and Updated as Self
• 1989 · Immediate Family as Linda Spector
• 1989 · Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary as Self
• 1988 · Dangerous Liaisons as Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil
• 1988 · American Experience as Narrator (voice)
• 1988 · This Morning as Self - Guest
• 1988 · The Legend of Sleepy Hollow as Narrator (voice)
• 1988 · Stones for Ibarra as Sara Everton
• 1988 · Electric Blue 29 as (archive footage)
• 1987 · Fatal Attraction as Alexandra "Alex" Forrest
• 1987 · Rabbit Ears - The Emperor and the Nightingale as Narrator (voice)
• 1985 · Jagged Edge as Teddy Barnes
• 1985 · Maxie as Jan / Maxie
• 1984 · The Natural as Iris Gaines
• 1984 · The Stone Boy as Ruth Hillerman
• 1984 · Something About Amelia as Gail Bennett
• 1983 · The Big Chill as Sarah Cooper
• 1982 · The World According to Garp as Jenny Fields
• 1982 · The Elephant Man as Princess Alexandra
• 1981 · Wetten, dass..? as Self
• 1979 · Orphan Train as Jessica
• 1979 · Too Far to Go as Rebecca Kuehn
• 1977 · Bitte umblättern as Self
• 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
• 1975 · The Rules of the Game as Neighbor
• 1971 · Great Performances as Neighbor
• 1971 · Great Performances as Self - Host
• 1966 · Goldene Kamera Verleihung as Self
• 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
• 1956 · Tony Awards as Self (archive footage)
• 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Host/Performer/Winner
• 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Audience Member
• 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Host
• 1956 · Tony Awards as Hillary Clinton
• 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
• 1953 · The Oscars as Self
• 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Sara Everton
• 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Sarah Wheaton
• 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Sarah
• 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Cornelia Englebrecht
• 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
• 2024 · Encore as Marie
• 2024 · Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery as
• 2024 · Sunset Boulevard (Musical) as Norma Desmond
• 2024 · Standing By as
• 2024 · All's Fair as