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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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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Irene & Marie | Vicky (Character) | - | 2015 |
| 64% |
|
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 |
|
Hiding Victoria | Althea Jaffery (Character) | - | 2006 |
| 73% |
|
The Great New Wonderful | Lanie (Character) | $150.1K | 2005 |
| 47% |
|
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 |
|
A Christmas Memory | Callie (Character) | - | 1997 |
| 11% |
|
Larger Than Life | Mom (Character) | $8.3M | 1996 |
| 62% |
|
She's the One | Carol (Character) | $9.5M | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Summer of Ben Tyler | Suellen (Character) | - | 1996 |
| 73% |
|
Boys on the Side | Elaine (Character) | $22.2M | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Undertow | Marlene (Character) | - | 1991 |
| 89% |
|
Moonstruck | Mona (Character) | $80.0M | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Brass | Sister Mary Elizabeth (Character) | - | 1985 |
| No Score Yet |
|
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
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 80% | 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 | 61% | Shake It Up! | Edie Wilde (Guest Star) | 2012 |
| 78% | 82% | 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 | 81% | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Lily Flynn (Guest Star) | 2005-2007 |
| 24% | 83% | The War at Home | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2005-2007 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2001 |
| 16% | No Score Yet | Normal, Ohio | Joan Gamble (Character) | 2000 |
| 70% | 79% | Sex and the City | Mrs. Adams (Guest Star) | 2000 |
| 95% | 94% | 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 |