Anna Thomson

Thomson made her acting debut in the Off-Broadway play Kid Champion in 1975,{{Cite web |title=Anna Levine theatre profile |url=https://www.abouttheartists.com/artists/305248-anna-levine |access-date=2025-04-15 |website=www.abouttheartists.com}} and at the recommendation of her friend Christopher Walken, who she considered her "godfather in cinema".{{Cite web |last=Seguret |first=Olivier |title=Rencontre avec l'envoûtante Anna Thomson, héroïne de «Fiona». Le noir lui va si bien. Fiona d'Amos Kollek, avec Anna Thomson, Felicia Maguire, Alyssa Mulhern, Bill Dawes.1 h 25. |url=https://www.liberation.fr/culture/1999/11/24/rencontre-avec-l-envoutante-anna-thomson-heroine-de-fiona-le-noir-lui-va-si-bien-fiona-d-amos-kollek_288606/ |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=Libération |language=fr}} She made her film debut in the 1979 war veteran drama Night-Flowers and made subsequent minor appearances in films including Heaven’s Gate, Desperately Seeking Susan, At Close Range, Something Wild, Wall Street and Fatal Attraction. On the New York stage she appeared in plays including Uncommon Women and Others, The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs and Barbarians.{{Cite web |title=Anna Levine theatre profile |url=https://www.abouttheartists.com/artists/305248-anna-levine |access-date=2025-04-15 |website=www.abouttheartists.com}}

High-profile film work continued into the 1990s, with Thomson cast in True Romance, The Crow and Bad Boys, and appearing in a major supporting role in Unforgiven as the prostitute whose disfigurement sparks the film’s story. Her television work includes portraying the role of Anna Rostov on The Colbys,{{cite book |last1=Brooks |first1=Tim |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w8KztFy6QYwC&q=anna+levine+the+colbys&pg=PA269 |title=The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present |last2=Marsh |first2=Earle F. |date=2009 |publisher=Random House Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-307-48320-1 |page=269 |language=en |accessdate=20 November 2017}} and appearing on The Tracey Ullman Show{{cite book |last1=Hyatt |first1=Wesley |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SrmJCgAAQBAJ&q=anna+levine+the+tracey+ullman+show&pg=PA342 |title=Emmy Award Winning Nighttime Television Shows, 1948–2004 |date=2006 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-0874-7 |pages=341, 342 |language=en |accessdate=November 20, 2017}} and the HBO comedy sketch show Hardcore TV.{{cite web |last1=Gilbert |first1=Griffin |date=March 5, 1993 |title=Hardcore Tv |url=https://variety.com/1993/tv/reviews/hardcore-tv-1200431826/ |accessdate=November 20, 2017 |website=Variety}}

Her collaborations with the Israeli filmmaker Amos Kollek, among them Sue, Fiona and Fast Food Fast Women,{{Cite news |last=Mitchell |first=Elvis |date=2001-05-18 |title=FILM IN REVIEW; 'Fast Food, Fast Women' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/18/movies/film-in-review-fast-food-fast-women.html |access-date=2025-04-17 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} earned Thomson cult status in France.{{Cite web |last=Foreman |first=Jonathan |date=2001-05-20 |title='FAST FOOD' STAR'S A REAL FRENCH DISH |url=https://nypost.com/2001/05/20/fast-food-stars-a-real-french-dish/ |access-date=2025-04-15 |language=en-US}} In 1999, she said in a rare interview that she had grown distant from the American film industry. "If Hollywood ignores me, it’s also because I’m not very good at public relations; I don't send Christmas cards to remind them of me ... apart from a little money, there's nothing Hollywood I miss."{{Cite web |last=Seguret |first=Olivier |title=Rencontre avec l'envoûtante Anna Thomson, héroïne de «Fiona». Le noir lui va si bien. Fiona d'Amos Kollek, avec Anna Thomson, Felicia Maguire, Alyssa Mulhern, Bill Dawes.1 h 25. |url=https://www.liberation.fr/culture/1999/11/24/rencontre-avec-l-envoutante-anna-thomson-heroine-de-fiona-le-noir-lui-va-si-bien-fiona-d-amos-kollek_288606/ |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=Libération |language=fr}} By 2001 she had parted ways with her US acting agent entirely.{{Cite web |last=Foreman |first=Jonathan |date=2001-05-20 |title='FAST FOOD' STAR'S A REAL FRENCH DISH |url=https://nypost.com/2001/05/20/fast-food-stars-a-real-french-dish/ |access-date=2025-04-17 |language=en-US}} Thomson’s last major film performances were as an embittered transgender woman in François Ozon’s 2000 comedy Water Drops on Burning Rocks, and as a widowed single mother "sinking into alcoholism and despair"{{Cite web |last=Johnston2002-07-02T00:00:00+01:00 |first=Sheila |title=Bridget |url=https://www.screendaily.com/bridget/409792.article |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=Screen |language=en}} in 2002's Bridget, to date her final collaboration with Kollek.

Thomson was orphaned at an early age and adopted by fashion designer Beth Levine{{Cite news |last=Wilson |first=Eric |date=2006-09-23 |title=Beth Levine, 'First Lady of Shoe Design,' Is Dead at 91 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/23/obituaries/23levine.html |access-date=2025-04-15 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=PageSix com |date=2008-10-13 |title=MED CARE SUIT SHOCKS ACTRESS {{!}} Page Six |url=https://pagesix.com/2008/10/13/med-care-suit-shocks-actress/ |access-date=2025-04-15 |language=en-US}} and business executive Herbert Levine{{Cite news |last=Schiro |first=Anne-Marie |date=1991-08-10 |title=Herbert Levine, 75, Manufacturer of High-Fashion Women's Shoes |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/10/nyregion/herbert-levine-75-manufacturer-of-high-fashion-women-s-shoes.html |access-date=2025-04-15 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} before being raised between New York and France. She trained as a ballet dancer.{{Cite web |last=Foreman |first=Jonathan |date=2001-05-20 |title='FAST FOOD' STAR'S A REAL FRENCH DISH |url=https://nypost.com/2001/05/20/fast-food-stars-a-real-french-dish/ |access-date=2025-04-15 |language=en-US}}

Thomson married actor Davidson Thomson in 1989, after meeting while working on the Off-off-Broadway play The Poets’ Corner.{{Cite web |title=The Poets' Corner {{!}} Harry Kondoleon |url=https://harrykondoleon.com/plays/the-poets-corner/ |access-date=2025-04-15 |website=harrykondoleon.com}} They had twin sons in 1992, and were married until Thomson’s death in 1993.{{Cite web |title=Edward & Donna Thomson Obituary - Winnipeg, MB |url=https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/winnipeg-mb/edward-donna-thomson-8849869 |access-date=2025-04-15 |website=Dignity Memorial |language=en-us}} She subsequently re-married, and now lives under the name Anna Thomson-Wilson.{{Cite news |date=2006-09-24 |title=Paid Notice: Deaths LEVINE, BETH |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/classified/paid-notice-deaths-levine-beth.html |access-date=2025-04-15 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}

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