Biography of Gretchen MolDate of Birth
8 November 1972, Deep River, Connecticut, USA
Height
5' 6" (1.68 m)
Mini Biography
Mol was born on November 8, 1972 in Deep River, Connecticut, the daughter of a school principal father and an artist mother. Deep River is a small community located on the Chester Bowles Highway (Route 9), nine miles northwest of Old Saybrook (the residence of the legendary Katharine Hepburn) within commuting distance of New York City. Gretchen studied acting and musical theater at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy and the William Esper Studio. Before breaking into acting, she was a model; her first acting job in a television commercial for Coca-Cola commercial. She honed her acting skills in the theater, appearing in such productions as "Bus Stop", "No Exit" and "Godspell".
Mol was touted as the "Next Big Thing" after appeared on the cover of the September 1998 of "Vanity Fair". With a striking picture of a blonde Mol in a sheer white gown, strained by her erect nipples, "Vanity Fair" asked "Gretch Mol: Is She Hollywood's Next 'It' Girl?" After making her film debut in Spike Lee's Girl 6 (1996), her most memorable role up to that time was as a mobster's moll in the cult classic Donnie Brasco (1997), which was mostly remembered for cinematic turns by Al Pacino, Johnny Depp and the Anne Heche than Mol. Nonetheless, "Vanity Fair" hyped the blonde beauty, but her career did not really take off for another seven years (Angelina Jolie proved to be Hollywood's Next 'It' Girl). During that seven years, Mol continued to appear in films and on the stage, including a turn as Roxie Hart in the Broadway production of "Chicago" in the months of January and February 2004, but was out of the limelight that had befallen her in 1998. In 2004, she finally had the role that proved to Boer her acting breakthrough, playing the brunette bombshell The Notorious Bettie Page (2005).
Graduated from the William Esper Studio
She worked as a hat check girl at a restaurant where her agent-to-be spotted her and got her a coke commercial.
Her mother is an artist and her father is a school principal. Her parents divorced when she was young. She has an older brother, Jim Mol.
Graduated from the prestigious American Musical and Dramatic Academy. That is the same school that actors such as Lee Tergesen ("Oz" (1997)), Tyne Daly ("Judging Amy" (1999)) and Paul Sorvino (Goodfellas (1990)) attended.
Went to the same high school as Broadway actor Peter Lockyer.
Grew up in Connecticut. Moved to New York as a teenager to study acting.
Worked with her husband's ex-wife (Famke Janssen) on three films - two before she married him (Rounders (1998) and Celebrity (1998)) and one after she married him (The Ten (2007)).
Expecting a first child with director Tod Williams in 2007.
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