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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% 81% 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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64% Hiding Victoria
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The Last Adam
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Filmography

Movies TV Shows
Irene & Marie 2015 Vicky Actor The Fitzgerald Family Christmas 64% 50% 2012 Josie Fitzgerald Actor The Last Adam 2006 Betty Adams Actor Hiding Victoria 64% 2006 Althea Jaffery Actor The Great New Wonderful 73% 45% 2005 Lanie Actor Shall We Dance? 47% 57% 2004 Miss Mitzi Actor Dinner and a Movie 2001 Actor Charlie Hoboken 1998 Stepmother Actor A Christmas Memory 66% 1997 Callie Actor Larger Than Life 11% 30% 1996 Mom Actor She's the One 62% 41% 1996 Carol Actor The Summer of Ben Tyler 1996 Suellen Actor Boys on the Side 73% 68% 1995 Elaine Actor Undertow 1991 Marlene Actor Bum Rap 1989 Drunk Woman Actor Moonstruck 89% 81% 1987 Mona Actor Brass 1985 Sister Mary Elizabeth Actor Ants! 15% 1977 Peggy Kenter Actor A Matter of Wife... and Death 1975 Helen Baker Actor George M! 1970 Ethel Levy Cohan Actor
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