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Anita Gillette

Highest Rated: 89% Moonstruck (1987)

Lowest Rated: 11% Larger Than Life (1996)

Birthday: Aug 16, 1936

Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland, USA

This Strasberg-trained supporting actor came out of musical theater to gain face recognition on panel shows before moving into playing character and mother roles on sitcoms and features. Anita Gillette is best recalled as Mona, Vincent Gardenia's mistress in Norman Jewison's "Moonstruck" (1987) and as Mary-Louise Parker's outspoken mother in Herbert Ross' "Boys on the Side" (1995).

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Highest rated movies

89% 80% Moonstruck
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73% 68% Boys on the Side
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73% 45% The Great New Wonderful
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64% 50% The Fitzgerald Family Christmas
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62% 41% She's the One
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47% 57% Shall We Dance?
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11% 30% Larger Than Life
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Charlie Hoboken
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The Last Adam
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64% Hiding Victoria
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Filmography

Movies

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No Score Yet No Score Yet Irene & Marie Vicky (Character) - 2015
64% 50% The Fitzgerald Family Christmas Josie Fitzgerald (Character) $13.8K 2012
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Last Adam Betty Adams (Character) - 2006
No Score Yet 64% Hiding Victoria Althea Jaffery (Character) - 2006
73% 45% The Great New Wonderful Lanie (Character) $150.1K 2005
47% 57% Shall We Dance? Miss Mitzi (Character) $57.9M 2004
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dinner and a Movie Unknown (Character) - 2001
No Score Yet No Score Yet Charlie Hoboken Stepmother (Character) $927 1998
No Score Yet 66% A Christmas Memory Callie (Character) - 1997
11% 30% Larger Than Life Mom (Character) $8.3M 1996
62% 41% She's the One Carol (Character) $9.5M 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Summer of Ben Tyler Suellen (Character) - 1996
73% 68% Boys on the Side Elaine (Character) $22.2M 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet Undertow Marlene (Character) - 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bum Rap Drunk Woman (Character) - 1989
89% 80% Moonstruck Mona (Character) $80.0M 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Brass Sister Mary Elizabeth (Character) - 1985
No Score Yet 15% Ants! Peggy Kenter (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Matter of Wife... and Death Helen Baker (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet George M! Ethel Levy Cohan (Character) - 1970

TV

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No Score Yet 81% Blue Bloods Colleen (Guest Star) 2013 2022
95% 89% Elementary Claire Renziger (Guest Star) 2015
85% 90% Modern Family Annie (Guest Star) 2013
No Score Yet 68% Shake It Up! Edie Wilde (Guest Star) 2012
78% 83% Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Judge Sheila Tripler (Guest Star) 2010
78% 92% 30 Rock Margaret Lemon (Guest Star) 2007 2010
No Score Yet 95% Cold Case Unknown (Guest Star) 2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet Women's Murder Club Unknown (Guest Star) 2007
No Score Yet 80% CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Lily Flynn (Guest Star) 2005-2007
24% 62% The War at Home Unknown (Guest Star) 2005-2007
No Score Yet 76% Law & Order: Criminal Intent Unknown (Guest Star) 2001
16% No Score Yet Normal, Ohio Joan Gamble (Character) 2000
70% 80% Sex and the City Mrs. Adams (Guest Star) 2000
95% 95% Frasier Mrs. Wojadubakowski (Guest Star) 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet Afterschool Special Unknown (Character) 1996
No Score Yet 83% Law & Order Unknown (Guest Star) 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mad About You Claire Wicker (Guest Star) 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet Almost Grown Vi Long (Character) 1988-1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet Super Password Guest 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet Password 79 Guest 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet Trapper John, M.D. Unknown (Guest Star) 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet What's My Line? Guest 1969 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice Alice Henderson (Character) 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet Me and the Chimp LIz Reynolds (Character) 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Route 66 Unknown (Guest Star) 1961