Glenn Close has revealed she broke her nose just days before she turned 77.
The Fatal Attraction star, who marked her special day on Tuesday, March 19, shared a few selfies on Instagram in which she showed off her dramatic facial bruises after patching up her injury.
She wrote: “I think this is going to be a particularly GOOD day. (Ignore the bruises. I had a small broken nose repaired) I still feel beautiful.
Close playfully mugged on camera as she smiled, pursed her lips and opened her eyes wide to show off her bruises from the surgery.
Her famous friends were quick to congratulate her on her candid message with Lily Collins writing: “OMG I love you” while Rumer Willis wrote: “You are a treasure.”
Glenn Close revealed she broke her nose days before turning 77
The Fatal Attraction star, who marked her special day on Tuesday, March 19, shared a few selfies on Instagram in which she showed off her dramatic facial bruises after patching up her injury.
Close is pictured at the Governors Awards in January 2024
Always an Oscar darling, Close received her first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 1983 for The World According to Garp, for one of her very first leading roles.
Just a year later, the talented star was nominated again for her outstanding performance in the ensemble drama The Big Chill, and continued the streak with her third nod in as many years in 1985 for The Natural.
However, most Glenn fans would agree that the role for which she most earned Oscar gold came in 1987, when she played the troubled Alex Forrest in Adrian Lynn’s superior and tense thriller, Fatal Attraction.
Close has spoken extensively over the years about the amount of work she put into the role of Alex, including meeting with psychiatrists, and said she “loved” the character and chose to play her as “someone ‘one in distress’ rather than as a simple. monster.
And that work shows in the film, which tells the story of a brief extramarital love affair that goes very, very wrong when “the other woman” (Close) refuses to be put aside.
Like some of Hitchcock’s best films, Fatal Attraction has become something of a cultural touchpoint since its release more than 30 years ago, coining the term “rabbit boiler.”
And while Cher won the Best Actress Oscar that year for her superb performance in Moonstruck, those in Glenn’s camp have since felt like she was somewhat shortchanged by the Academy.
‘It’s beyond my skills. I don’t know what to say about that,” Glenn previously remarked.
Close playfully mugged for the camera as she smiled, pursed her lips and opened her eyes wide to show off her bruises from the operation.
The eight-time Academy Award-nominated actress is best known for her role as psychotic Alex Forrest in the 1987 film Fatal Attraction (pictured with Michael Douglas as Dan Gallagher).
The star is yet to win Oscar gold – she is pictured at the 2019 ceremony where she was nominated for The Wife but lost to Olivia Colman in The Favourite.
And naturally, she chose to focus on what was truly important as an actress: work.
After Fatal Attraction, Glenn was nominated again in 1989 for her role as the vain Marquise de Merteuil in the excellent Dangerous Liaisons.
And in the past decade, she received her sixth and seventh nominations, for the 2011 period piece focused on trans character Albert Nobbs and for 2019’s The Wife.
The star was nominated for the eighth time in the Best Supporting Actress category in 2021 for Hillbilly Elegy.
