Evening

…of a nervous bride in Evening (2007). In Albert Nobbs (2011), which she cowrote, Close starred as a woman who disguises herself as a man in order to find work in 19th-century Ireland; for her performance, she received a sixth Oscar nomination.

…supporting roles in the dramas Evening (2007) and Towelhead (2007) and the horror film Fright Night (2011). She then starred in the offbeat Australian comedy Mental (2012) before playing Alfred Hitchcock’s personal assistant in the biographical Hitchcock (2012).

…actor Hugh Dancy while filming Evening (2007), and the couple married in 2009. They have two sons and a daughter.

…novel by Ian McEwan, and Evening (2007), in which she starred as a woman who remembers a long-lost love as she lies on her deathbed.