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Anita Gillette
Anita Gillette (née Luebben; born August 16, 1936) is an American actress and singer. She has performed numerous roles on Broadway and American television, and in feature films.
Her Broadway credits include performing in musical productions of Gypsy, Carnival!, Guys and Dolls, They're Playing Our Song, Mr. President, and Cabaret. In 1978, she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play at the 32nd Tony Awards for her performance in Neil Simon's Chapter Two.
Raised in Rossville, Maryland, Anita Gillette graduated from Kenwood High School and studied at the Peabody Conservatory.
Gillette's first television appearance was on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1963. She joined the cast of The Edge of Night in 1967, leaving the next year. Gillette's biggest exposure on a national scale came as a celebrity guest on various New York City-based game shows, mostly those produced by Goodson-Todman and Bob Stewart. She served as a semi-regular on the syndicated What's My Line?, Match Game, and the Pyramid series. She also appeared with Robert Alda as a panelist on Fast Draw.
Gillette's roles in the 1970s included the short-lived series Me and the Chimp with Ted Bessell and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice with a then-unknown Robert Urich and a young Jodie Foster. She also appeared in Norman Lear's All That Glitters (1977) and TV movies such as A Matter of Wife... and Death (1975) and It Happened at Lakewood Manor (1977).
The 1980s marked Gillette's transition from Broadway and television into film. Before this transition, she had sizeable television roles as Nancy Baxter on the national run of The Baxters; Dr. W. Emily Hanover, Dr. R. Quincy's (Jack Klugman) second wife on the eighth and final season of Quincy, M.E. (having previously portrayed his deceased first wife Helen Quincy in a flashback); a role on Search for Tomorrow at the end of that series' long run; and the David Chase series Almost Grown (1988–1989).
After the end of Search for Tomorrow in late 1986, and appearing with Robert Reed and Bert Convy on Super Password, Gillette made the transition to film with a variety of notable roles such as that of Mona in 1987's Moonstruck. Many of these roles had her as an on-screen mother to characters played by prominent actors; she played Roger Davis' (Jack Black) mother Mrs. Davis in Bob Roberts (1992), Robin Nickerson's (Mary-Louise Parker) mother Elaine Nickerson in Boys on the Side (1995), Jack Corcoran's (Bill Murray) mother Mrs. Corcoran in Larger than Life (1996), Renee Fitzpatrick's (Jennifer Aniston) mother Carol in She's The One (1996), and Mrs. McGee, the mother of Randy's (Bobby Cannavale) love interest Rusty McGee (Dash Mihok) in The Guru (2002). Her return to television in 2000's short-lived Normal, Ohio had her playing Joan Gamble, the mother of John Goodman's character William "Butch" Gamble.
In the 1990s, Gillette starred in two Hallmark Hall of Fame movies: The Summer of Ben Tyler (1996) with James Woods and A Christmas Memory (1997) with Patty Duke. In 2004, Gillette appeared as Miss Mitzi, the lonely, alcoholic owner of a struggling dance studio in Shall We Dance?. She made several appearances as Grandma Betty on The War at Home (2005–2007); as Lily Flynn, the mother of criminalist Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger), in four episodes of CSI (2005–2007/2012); and Margaret Lemon, the mother of Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) in two episodes of 30 Rock (2007/2010). She starred in the 2006 film Hiding Victoria.
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Anita Gillette
Anita Gillette (née Luebben; born August 16, 1936) is an American actress and singer. She has performed numerous roles on Broadway and American television, and in feature films.
Her Broadway credits include performing in musical productions of Gypsy, Carnival!, Guys and Dolls, They're Playing Our Song, Mr. President, and Cabaret. In 1978, she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play at the 32nd Tony Awards for her performance in Neil Simon's Chapter Two.
Raised in Rossville, Maryland, Anita Gillette graduated from Kenwood High School and studied at the Peabody Conservatory.
Gillette's first television appearance was on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1963. She joined the cast of The Edge of Night in 1967, leaving the next year. Gillette's biggest exposure on a national scale came as a celebrity guest on various New York City-based game shows, mostly those produced by Goodson-Todman and Bob Stewart. She served as a semi-regular on the syndicated What's My Line?, Match Game, and the Pyramid series. She also appeared with Robert Alda as a panelist on Fast Draw.
Gillette's roles in the 1970s included the short-lived series Me and the Chimp with Ted Bessell and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice with a then-unknown Robert Urich and a young Jodie Foster. She also appeared in Norman Lear's All That Glitters (1977) and TV movies such as A Matter of Wife... and Death (1975) and It Happened at Lakewood Manor (1977).
The 1980s marked Gillette's transition from Broadway and television into film. Before this transition, she had sizeable television roles as Nancy Baxter on the national run of The Baxters; Dr. W. Emily Hanover, Dr. R. Quincy's (Jack Klugman) second wife on the eighth and final season of Quincy, M.E. (having previously portrayed his deceased first wife Helen Quincy in a flashback); a role on Search for Tomorrow at the end of that series' long run; and the David Chase series Almost Grown (1988–1989).
After the end of Search for Tomorrow in late 1986, and appearing with Robert Reed and Bert Convy on Super Password, Gillette made the transition to film with a variety of notable roles such as that of Mona in 1987's Moonstruck. Many of these roles had her as an on-screen mother to characters played by prominent actors; she played Roger Davis' (Jack Black) mother Mrs. Davis in Bob Roberts (1992), Robin Nickerson's (Mary-Louise Parker) mother Elaine Nickerson in Boys on the Side (1995), Jack Corcoran's (Bill Murray) mother Mrs. Corcoran in Larger than Life (1996), Renee Fitzpatrick's (Jennifer Aniston) mother Carol in She's The One (1996), and Mrs. McGee, the mother of Randy's (Bobby Cannavale) love interest Rusty McGee (Dash Mihok) in The Guru (2002). Her return to television in 2000's short-lived Normal, Ohio had her playing Joan Gamble, the mother of John Goodman's character William "Butch" Gamble.
In the 1990s, Gillette starred in two Hallmark Hall of Fame movies: The Summer of Ben Tyler (1996) with James Woods and A Christmas Memory (1997) with Patty Duke. In 2004, Gillette appeared as Miss Mitzi, the lonely, alcoholic owner of a struggling dance studio in Shall We Dance?. She made several appearances as Grandma Betty on The War at Home (2005–2007); as Lily Flynn, the mother of criminalist Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger), in four episodes of CSI (2005–2007/2012); and Margaret Lemon, the mother of Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) in two episodes of 30 Rock (2007/2010). She starred in the 2006 film Hiding Victoria.