Gretchen Mol

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Biography

Once hailed as Hollywood's next "It" Girl by Vanity Fair in 1998, actress Gretchen Mol failed to live up to the hype before her career was able to take off and suffered the notoriety of starring in a series of commercial failures. The first sign of trouble came with what was intended to be her breakout movie, "Rounders" (1998). That film underperformed at the box office and left Mol the subject of indifference from an industry that sought to …
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Job Title

Actor, Music

Born

November 8, 1972

Career Milestones

1990

Moved to NYC

1996

Co-starred in the ABC miniseries "Larry McMurtry's 'Dead Man's Walk'"

1996

Film debut, Spike Lee's "Girl 6"

1996

Had supporting role in Abel Ferrara's "The Funeral"

1996

TV-movie debut in "Calm at Sunset" (CBS)

1997

Played gangster's moll in "Donnie Brasco"

1998

Appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair's September Issue, which proclaimed her "Hollywood's newest 'It' girl"

1998

Co-starred opposite Matt Damon in "Rounders"

1998

Had featured role of Leonardo DiCaprio's girlfriend in Woody Allen's "Celebrity"

1999

Portrayed Marion Davies in "Cradle Will Rock"

2000

Appeared in "Attraction"; screened at the Toronto Film Festival

2000

Starred in the CBS remake of "Picnic"

2001

Acted in the London stage production of Neil LaBute's "The Shape of Things"

2002

Cast in supporting role in the A&E remake of "The Magnificent Ambersons"

2002

Cast in the Fox drama "Girls Club"

2003

Reprised the role of Jenny in the film adaptation of Neil LaBute's "The Shape of Things," also starred Paul Rudd and Rachel Weisz

2004

Appeared on Broadway as Roxie Heart in the Tony Award-winning musical "Chicago"

2006

Portrayed Bettie Page, the most successful pin-up model of the 1950s, in HBO's "The Notorious Bettie Page"

2007

Co-starred in Maria Maggenti's romantic comedy "Puccini for Beginners"

2007

Co-starred with Russell Crowe and Christian Bale in "3:10 to Yuma," a Western directed by James Mangold

2008

Played Annie on the ABC series "Life on Mars"

2008

Played Norah in "The Memory Keeper's Daughter" for the Lifetime Channel

2009

Played a woman who has an affair with John F. Kennedy, in the independent film "An American Affair"

2010

Joined the cast of the HBO series "Boardwalk Empire" as Prohibition-era showgirl Gillian Darmody

Awards

2008

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture in 3:10 to Yuma

2011

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in Boardwalk Empire

2012

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in Boardwalk Empire