Annabelle Gurwitch
Biography
Annabelle Gurwitch is an American actress, author, and television host who began her career on Off-Broadway stages in New York City. Born in Alabama and raised in Mobile until age five, she appeared on early television in Not Necessarily the News, The Guiding Light, and guest roles on series like Miami Vice, Seinfeld, and Dexter. She co-hosted TBS's Dinner and a Movie with Paul Gilmartin from 1996 to 2002, and later hosted the Planet Green series Wa$ted!. Her film work includes Melvin Goes to Dinner (2003) and The Shaggy Dog (2006); she also wrote, directed, and appeared in the 2007 documentary Fired!. She wrote I See You Made an Effort, which became a New York Times bestseller and a Thurber Prize finalist, and she adapted it into a solo show.
64years old
Turns 65 on November 4in 22 days
- Born Mobile
- Star sign: ScorpioThe sign runs October 23 to November 21
Movie Career
- Films
- 13
- Career span
- 19 years1988 to 2007
First and latest
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A change of course
Gurwitch was fired by Woody Allen, who insulted her during the encounter, and she turned that dismissal into a 2006 essay collection called Fired!: Tales of the Canned, Canceled, Downsized, and Dismissed.
Behind the camera
Gurwitch was one of the writers on ThunderCats, the children's animated series from the 1980s, and she worked with another writer on two of its episodes.
A change of course
In 2002 Gurwitch was the host of Meow TV with her cat Stinky. The show came on a CD packed in bags of Meow Mix and called itself "Television By Cats, For Cats."
A first
Gurwitch's book I See You Made an Effort was a New York Times bestseller and a Thurber Prize finalist in a year when all three finalists were women, a first for the prize.
Annabelle Gurwitch movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Four actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Box office
What Annabelle Gurwitch's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$263 million
10 of the 13 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 13 films: 10 worldwide figure; 1 us gross only; 2 figure not found.
- 10Worldwide figure
- 1US gross only
- 2Figure not found
Top grosser
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 99% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$122M46.6% of the total
- 2$87M33.2% of the total
- 3$16M6.1% of the total
- 4$12M4.7% of the total
- 5$11M4.2% of the total
- 6$7.0M2.7% of the total
- 7$2.6M1.0% of the total
- 8$2.0M0.8% of the total
$1.9 millionfrom the other 2 films with a worldwide figure, 1% of the total
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