Glenn Close continued to build on her success following
Fatal Attraction, appearing in a number of hit films. Her credits include
Dangerous Liaisons (1988),
Reversal of Fortune (1990),
Mars Attacks! (1996), as well as roles on TV including
The Shield (2005) and
Damages (2007-2012). She was recently nominated for Best Actress yet again for her nuanced portrayal of a tragic transsexual in
Albert Nobbs (2011).
Close originally fought the ending of
Fatal Attraction, where her character ends up dead by Beth Gallagher’s hand. Believing Alex was a “disturbed woman” but not a “psychopath,” she felt she would have killed herself as originally intended in the script. In the end, she agreed with Alex’s bloody end. As she told
Entertainment Weekly via The Daily Mail in 2011, “We gave the audience my blood. It worked.”