Anne Archer

Anne Archer was born on Aug 24, 1947 in USA. Anne Archer's big-screen debut came with The Honkers directed by Steve Ihnat in 1972. Anne Archer is known for The Dropout directed by Michael Showalter, Amanda Seyfried stars as Elizabeth Holmes and Naveen Andrews as Sunny Balwani. Anne Archer has got 4 awards and 5 nominations so far. The most recent award Anne Archer achieved is Women's Image Network Awards. The upcoming new tvshow Anne Archer plays is Paper Empire - Season 1 which will be released on Dec 31, 2023.

Anne Archer was nominated for an Academy Award®, a Golden Globe and the British (BAFTA) Academy Award for her role as Michael Douglas' sympathetic, tortured wife, "Beth Gallagher", in Adrian Lyne's 1987 thriller Liaison fatale (1987). Archer is also well-known for her poignant Golden Globe-winning performance in the ensemble cast of Robert Altman's Short Cuts - Les Américains (1993) and for playing CIA agent Jack Ryan's beleaguered wife, "Cathy", in Jeux de guerre (1992) and Danger immédiat (1994), both based on Tom Clancy bestsellers.Archer was born into a show business family in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of actors Marjorie Lord (née Marjorie F. Wollenberg), who appeared on TV's Make Room for Daddy (1953), and John Archer (born Ralph Bowman), who starred in L'enfer est à lui (1949). Her ancestry includes German, English, Czech, and Scots-Irish.Archer studied theatre arts at Claremont College before debuting on the motion picture screen opposite Jon Voight in The All-American Boy (1973). She won critical acclaim for her leading role in Lifeguard (1976) as Sam Elliott's old flame.Throughout her motion picture career, Archer has starred opposite some of Hollywood's most dynamic and respected leading men, not only Michael Douglas and Harrison Ford, but also Gene Hackman in Le seul témoin (1990), Tom Berenger in director Alan Rudolph's romantic comedy L'amour poursuite (1990), Donald Sutherland in La Guerre des nerfs (1990) and Sylvester Stallone in La taverne de l'enfer (1978). In 2000, she appeared in L'Art de la guerre (2000) with Wesley Snipes and L'enfer du devoir (2000) (her first project with Tommy Lee Jones), which was one of the box office hits in Spring of that year.With husband Terry Jastrow (an Emmy-winning sports producer), she co-produced and starred in the feature Waltz Across Texas (1982), a modern romance set in the Texas oil fields. In 1998, Archer worked with husband Jastrow again as co-producer and co-host, with Isabella Rossellini, on ABC's World Fashion Premiere from Paris (1998), a history-making two-hour special. Again the following year, she served as a producer on the telecast. With complete backstage access, the shows spotlighted the haute couture shows of the most famous designers in the world.Archer has essayed dramatic roles as complex and disparate characters in cable productions of equally distinct genres. She starred with Michael Murphy in the contemporary romantic drama La raison du coeur (1998) for Lifetime and opposite William Petersen in Present Tense, Past Perfect (1995), based on a bittersweet story by Richard Dreyfuss, who also directed the Showtime drama. Previously, for the same network, she portrayed Dennis Hopper's sexy former wife in the contemporary, gritty Légitime vengeance (1992) and for HBO, again, starred with Jon Voight in the period piece The Last of His Tribe (1992).Her television performances have also included Neil Simon's Jake's Women (1996) opposite Alan Alda and CBS's Jane's House (1994) opposite James Woods. Recently, she received acclaim for a three episode arc on Fox-TV's series Boston Public (2000), created by David E. Kelley.She had a starring role opposite Courteney Cox in the independent feature November (2004) and appeared in Revolution Studios' comedy Garde rapprochée (2005), portraying Prof. Molly McCarthy, opposite Tommy Lee Jones. She also had a role on Showtime's provocative series L Word (2004) with Jennifer Beals, Mia Kirshner and Pam Grier.Her stage work includes the world premiere of "The Poison Tree" at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, the Williamstown Theatre Festival production of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" in Massachusetts and the starring role in the London West End production of "The Graduate", for which she received rave reviews. Archer's New York stage debut was as "Maude Mix" in the celebrated Off-Broadway production of John Ford Noonan's "A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking".