Gretchen Mol Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Profession Actress
American nationality
Birth November 8, 1972 (Deep River, Connecticut – United States)
BIOGRAPHY
A graduate of the William Esper Studio, Gretchen Mol is a waitress in a restaurant when she is noticed by her future agent. He made him shoot an advertising spot for Coca-Cola. In 1996, Gretchen Mol made an appearance alongside Michael J. Fox in the television series Spin city . In the cinema, we can see her pretty face in Girl 6 (1996) by Spike Lee , Our Funeral (id.) and New Rose Hotel (1998) by Abel Ferrara , Donnie Brasco (1997) by Mike Newell and Celebrity (1998) by Woody Allen .

Her roles gained importance in 1998 with John Dahl ‘s The Players , when she played Matt Damon ‘s girlfriend . On screen, she is also the companion of Johnathon Schaech in Road to Graceland by David Winkler , the young lady that Jude Law seeks to conquer in The Swan of Destiny (id.) and the daughter of a computer scientist, played by Armin Mueller -Stahl , in Virtual Past (1999) by Josef Rusnak . After being directed by Paul Schrader in the thriller Forbidden Lovers (1999), Gretchen Mol is becoming rarer on cinema screens. It was by playing the luscious Bettie Page in a biopic (2005) by Mary Harron and by performing in the independent romantic comedy Puccini and I (2006) that the beauty found her way back to the studios. Another female lead in 2007 in the romantic drama The Valley of Light inaugurated a prolific year for the actress, where she first turned to comedy in The Ten , a series of short films parodying the biblical episode of the Ten Commandments, alongside Adrien Brody and Paul Rudd , then in American Loser . The same year, she starred in the western 3h10 for Yuma by James Mangold where she played the disillusioned wife of one of the two main characters, a soldier returning from the Civil War who incited the family, against her advice, to settle in a dilapidated ranch in the middle of a desert plain. After a few projects like the comedy The Tenure in 2008 and An American Affair

in 2009, where she appeared in 60s beauty like Marilyn Monroe , in 2010 she obtained a regular role in the hit series Boardwalk Empire , scripted by Terence Winter . Gretchen Mol plays the mother of James Darmody, the protégé of mafioso Nucky Thompton. Her character is a manipulative woman who will, unintentionally, in her desire to sink Thompson’s empire, cause the death of her own son. In 2014, she made her return to the big screen in Girls Only with Keira Knightley , before starring in True Story , a Rupert Goold thriller with James Franco .