Anne Pitoniak

Anne Pitoniak was an American actress whose career moved between theater, film, and television. Born in Westfield, Massachusetts, she graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro before spending two years after World War II as a civilian actress with the Special Services, touring Japan, the Philippines, and Korea. She earned a Tony Award nomination for the 1983 Broadway production of 'night, Mother, and received a second nomination in 1994 for playing Helen Potts in a Roundabout Theatre Company revival of Picnic. Her other Broadway credits included Agnes of God, The Octette Bridge Club, Amy's View, Uncle Vanya, Dance of Death, and Imaginary Friends, and she performed regularly for five years at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. In film she appeared in The Survivors (1983), Agnes of God (1985), Housekeeping (1987), Hiding Out (1987), and Where the Money Is (2000). She also had television roles in an episode of Cheers in 1987 and Law and Order: SVU in 2001.