| Gretchen Mol is an American actress. She was born in Deep River, Connecticut where her mother is an artist and her father is a school principal. She attended The American Musical and Dramatic Academy and graduated from the William Esper Studio. After summer stock in Vermont, she took a job for a while as an usher at Angelika Film Center. She was living in a Hell's Kitchen walk-up when she was noticed by a talent agent who spotted her working as a hat check girl at Michael's Restaurant in New York. Gretchen Mol has appeared in more than thirty feature films. And though the films have often been small, she has worked for a number of important directors. Her first role was in Spike Lee's overlooked film, Girl 6. New York filmmaker Abel Ferrara then took notice of her and she appeared in two of his movies, The Funeral (1996) and New Rose Hotel (1998).
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