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The 10 best Glenn Close movies – ranked!

Close’s performance in The Wife is stirring talk of a best actress Oscar nomination. We rank her very best films
Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce in Björn Runge’s critically acclaimed The Wife. Photograph: Graeme Hunter Pictures

10 The Paper (dir. Ron Howard) (1994)

A newspaper office is the site of one of Ron Howard’s and Glenn Close’s most underrated films. She is Alicia Clark, the formidable managing editor of the fictional paper the New York Sun, and is responsible for cutbacks and continually at loggerheads with a mercurial reporter, played by Michael Keaton. It is a very good “corporate” role for Close – a style that probably found its greatest expression in the TV show Damages.

9 Hamlet (dir. Franco Zeffirelli) (1990)

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