Anne Archer Biography (2)

Anne Archer was honored with Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for her role as Beth Gallagher, opposite Michael Douglas, in the highly acclaimed Fatal Attraction. She has attained an amazing level of achievement in her acting career, including a Golden Globe Award for her poignant performance in Robert Altman's critically acclaimed film, Short Cuts.

Archer made her motion picture debut starring with Jon Voight in The All-American Boy and won critical acclaim with her subsequent performance as Sam Elliott's former girlfriend in the feature Lifeguard.

She has starred opposite some of Hollywood's most respected leading men including Gene Hackman in Narrow Margin, Tom Berenger in director Alan Rudolph's Love at Large, Donald Sutherland in Eminent Domain and Sylvester Stallone in Paradise Alley. She played the role of Cathy Ryan in Patriot Games, one of the biggest summer box-office hits in 1992, and reprised that role with Harrison Ford in Clear and Present Danger, based on another of Tom Clancy's best-selling novels.

One of her most demanding film experiences was Waltz Across Texas, a romantic comedy set in the Texas oil fields, which she produced with husband and Emmy award-winning sports producer/director Terry Jastrow, currently president of Gaylord Entertainment Television.

In 1998, Archer took on the challenge of co-hosting and co-producing, with Jastrow, The World Fashion Premiere from Paris, a history-making two-hour special with Isabella Rossellini. Airing on ABC in July 1998, it was the first to be allowed full access to the haute couture shows of the most famous designers in the world.

This summer, Archer starred in the world premiere of The Poison Tree at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum. She has also starred in the Williamson Theatre Festival production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses and made her New York stage debut as Maude Mix in the celebrated Off-Broadway production of John Ford Noonan's A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking.

Archer starred in the USA movie of the week, The Tin Wife. She also starred with Michael Murphy in the contemporary romantic drama Indiscretion of an American Wife for Lifetime; starred opposite William Petersen in Past Tense, Future Perfect, based on a story by Richard Dreyfuss; and with Dennis Hopper in the contemporary Nails. Her television performances include Neil Simon's Jake's Women, opposite Alan Alda.

Archer also devotes her time to Applied Scholastics' World Literacy Crusade.

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