It takes a level of talent and commitment to be considered the second best actress in the industry. This is the story of Gretchen Mol, and ever since she emerged, it’s become harder and harder to argue that the actress has lived up to the hype.
After her days as a model, Gretchen has been in the film industry since her role as Girl 6. Since then, Mol has made her mark on film and stage productions. She is known for projects like The Notorious Bettie Page, Life on Mars, and Nightflyers.
Gretchen Mol’s bio
Gretchen was born on November 8, 1972, in DeepRiver, Connecticut, to mother Janet and father whose name is unknown. At the time, her mother made a living as a teacher and artist. Her father worked as a special education teacher and principal at RHAM High School. Through her parents, Gretchen has an older brother, Jim, who has a career in the film industry as an editor and director.
Gretchen Mol was bitten by the bug at a young age. While in high school, she was heavily involved in the school’s drama program. She attended the same high school with Broadway actor Peter Lockyer, and they both starred in musicals and plays together.
After high school, she honed her acting skills at William Esper Studio and the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. Gretchen Mol also held a few jobs for a while after acting school. She was employed as an usher at the Angelika Film Center, then as a hat checker at a New York restaurant known as Michael’s Restaurant. It was here that she was spotted by a talent agent and performed her first TV gig – a Coca-Cola commercial. During this period, she also appeared on the covers of several magazines before ending her brief stint as a model in favor of building an acting career.
personal details
In her love life, the model-turned-actress chose to choose a partner within her industry. On June 1, 2004, Gretchen Mol tied the knot with husband Tod “Kip” Williams. Kip makes a living as a director.
Mol became a mother on September 10, 2007, when she and Kip welcomed their first child, a son they named Ptolemy John Williams. Almost four years later, she had their second child, a daughter they named Winter Morgan Williams.
Becoming a mother changed Molun’s priorities quite a bit. She lived in New York and was particularly careful about the type of jobs she had. She turned down all the jobs that required her to leave her home and town, as she prioritized her family above her career.
Gretchen Mol is the PMD Foundation spokesperson for the country. The foundation was created to fund research and promote awareness of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD), a neurological disorder that affects children. She became involved with the foundation after losing one of her cousins to Lou Gehrig’s disease.
List of movies from best to worst
Gretchen Mol began her acting career on stage. She has appeared in New York and London plays, as well as Vermont Summer Theater in plays like 110 in the Shade, Godspell, The Shape of Things, Chicago, and Disgraced.
She started her film and TV career the same year with Girl 6 and Dead Man’s Walk respectively. The actress steadily developed her career in the 1990s and 2000s with projects like Rounders (1998), The Shape of Things (2003), The Notorious Bettie Page (2005), 3:10 to Yuma (2007) , Girls Club (2002), Life on Mars (2008-2009), Nightflyers (2018) and Seven Seconds (2018) among others.
Gretchen Mol has been in a slew of high-grossing films throughout her career and has worked with the biggest names in the industry. This has led fans of his films and performances to argue over which of his films are the best and which are the worst.
Based on online information about fan comments and reviews of her movies and individual performances, we’ve put together a list of Gretchen Mol’s top 20 movies ranked from best to worst. This list does not include her television roles.
- 3:10 at Yuma
- The Notorious Bettie Page
- rounders
- The thirteenth floor
- Music from another room
- The ten
- Celebrity
- Soft and lowdown
- Funerals
- The shape of things
- The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
- An American affair
- Trainwreck: My Idiot Life
- too tired to die
- Puccini for beginners
- look in my shorts
- Bleach
- just watch
- Finding Graceland
- The last time I committed suicide