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Biography: Best known to television audiences as the former co-host of TBS' Dinner & a Movie, Annabelle Gurwitch is a prolific actress and writer for such publications as Los Angeles Magazine and Glamour. She also is a mother and serves as a spokesperson for the National Kidney Foundation. Gurwitch's television work includes guest-starring roles in more than 30 series and telemovies, including Seinfeld, Suddenly Susan, Get Real and Murphy Brown. For two seasons she anchored HBO's award-winning series Not Necessarily the News, for which she received her first ACE Award nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy Series. Gurwitch later received her second ACE nomination, for Best Entertainment Host, for her work on Dinner & a Movie. Notably, she was the only woman nominated in that category, which was dominated by the men of late-night cable: Bill Maher, Dennis Miller and Chris Rock. On the big screen, Gurwitch recently completed a leading role in the feature-film adaptation of Melvin Goes to Dinner, with Jack Black, for director Bob Odenkirk (Mr. Show on HBO). Her other film credits include 2002's Teddy Bears' Picnic, directed by Harry Shearer, in which she played a hooker moonlighting as a stand-up comedian; The Fourth Tenor, opposite Rodney Dangerfield; Pollock, with Ed Harris; Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss; One Night Stand for director Mike Figgis; and Life With Mikey, directed by James Lapine and starring Michael J. Fox. An accomplished theater actress, Gurwitch recently received rave reviews in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Variety for her turn as Betty, the emotionally damaged housewife in the Murray Mednick play Joe & Betty. The New York Times cited her performance as "fascinating, unique, and reason enough to go to the theatre" during the play's off-Broadway run at The Jose Quintero Theatre. The play's successful run during the summer of 2002 led to a return engagement at the Kirk Theatre in New York, from December 8, 2002, through January 12, 2003. Gurwitch's other theater work includes the 20th-anniversary production of Wendy Wasserstein's Uncommon Women and Others at Second Stage in New York. In Los Angeles, Gurwitch appeared in The Naked Angels production of Winter Shorts, David Sedaris' Santaland Diaries and Phyrogiants at the HBO Workspace. Gurwitch is also a talented writer and self-proclaimed "sexpert." Having
doled out advice to the lovelorn in such magazines as Penthouse, she
currently is producing and hosting a special for Oxygen currently titled
What I Learned About Sex from the Movies. In addition, Gurwitch has
written humor pieces for Buzz, Los Angeles Magazine and Premiere, and
currently is a regular contributor for Glamour. She also has contributed
several features to Cooking Light Magazine, in which she wrote about
dating, Zen and her obsession with chocolate. Television Credits: |
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