MUMBAI: The Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) will bestow its career achievement award to actress Glenn Close at its Awards function on 7 January, next year. Close‘s latest film Albert Nobbs, in which she stars as a woman portraying a man in 19th-century Ireland, is set to release this fall.

PSIFF chairman Harold Matzner in a statement "Glenn Close has the gift of mesmerizing an audience whenever she performs. Since her film debut in 1982, Close‘s ability to capture the essence of a character is unparalleled, be it a femme fatale, a notorious stalker or the trusted aide to a president."

Close made her feature film debut in George Roy Hill‘s The World According to Garp. Her performance earned her awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the National Board of Review as well as her first Academy Award nomination. She was subsequently Oscar-nominated for her performances in Lawrence Kasdan’s The Big Chill, Barry Levinson’s The Natural, Adrian Lyne’s smash Fatal Attraction and Stephen Frears‘ Dangerous Liaisons for which she was awarded a BAFTA award.

Past career achievement award recipients include actors Cate Blanchett, Robert Duvall, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Samuel L. Jackson and Helen Mirren.