Anne De Salvo
{{short description|American actress (born 1949)}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|April 3, 1949}}
| birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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| occupation = {{Flatlist|
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- director
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| years_active = 1977–present
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Anne De Salvo (sometimes spelled Anne DeSalvo; born April 3, 1949) is an American actress and filmmaker. She has been described as "one of the top character actresses of her generation".{{cite book |last1=Roberts |first1=Jerry |title=Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors |date=2009 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-6378-1 |pages=128–9 |language=en |chapter=Anne De Salvo}}
Life and career
Growing up in Overbrook, Philadelphia, De Salvo studied art at Temple University and became involved with theater in Boston, where she was working as an art teacher.{{cite news |title=People & Places |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XOMyAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22Anne+De+Salvo%22&pg=PA16&article_id=6957,4798730 |access-date=December 3, 2023 |work=Star-News |date=June 17, 1985 |language=en}} She had her breakout with the role of Lucille Pompi in the Albert Innaurato's drama play Gemini, which got her an
Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress in 1977.{{cite book |last1=Nelson |first1=Emmanuel S. |title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature of the United States |date=2009 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-0-313-34860-0 |page=328 |language=en}}{{cite news |title=Pennsylvenia People |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ePUhAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22Anne+DeSalvo%22++obie+gemini&pg=PA39&article_id=4088,6712408 |access-date=December 3, 2023 |work=Reading Eagle |date=November 20, 1980 |page=39 |language=en}} At the time, Variety described her performance as "near perfection", as she "nearly steals every scene she's in".{{cite book |last1=Schildcrout |first1=Jordan |title=In the Long Run: A Cultural History of Broadway's Hit Plays |date=September 4, 2019 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-429-56039-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9TKtDwAAQBAJ&dq=De+salvo+Anne+obie+gemini&pg=RA2-PT213 |language=en}}
Often playing "wise-cracking New York characters", among De Salvo's best known roles are Woody Allen's sister in Stardust Memories, and Vicky DeStefano, Tony Danza's fiancée in Taxi.{{cite book |last1=Lovece |first1=Frank |title=Hailing Taxi |date=1988 |publisher=Prentice Hall Press |isbn=978-0-13-372103-4 |pages=49, 203–4}} In 1991, she co-starred alongside Ray Sharkey in the ABC sitcom The Man in the Family.{{cite book |title=Variety TV REV 1991-92 17 |date=March 1994 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-0-8240-3796-3 |pages=70–1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RxHbPxbBM1AC&dq=%22Anne+De+Salvo%22+Sharkey&pg=PA70-IA12 |language=en}} In 1997, she got a CableACE Award nomination for her guest starring role in Lifetime Women's Festival: Women Without Implants.{{cite news |last1=Staff |title=CableAce Nominations |url=https://variety.com/1997/tv/news/cableace-nominations-111662390/ |access-date=December 3, 2023|work=Variety |date=September 24, 1997}} In 2001, De Salvo made her screenwriting and directorial debut with The Amati Girls.
Selected filmography
=Films=
- Stardust Memories (1980)
- Arthur (1981)
- My Favorite Year (1982)
- D.C. Cab (1983)
- Bad Manners (1984)
- Perfect (1985)
- Compromising Positions (1985)
- Burglar (1987)
- Spike of Bensonhurst (1988)
- Fear, Anxiety & Depression (1989)
- Taking Care of Business (1990)
- Dead in the Water (1991)
- Attack of the 5 Ft. 2 In. Women (1994)
- Hi-Life (1998)
- One Hot Summer Night (1998)
- The Amati Girls (2001, also director and screenwriter)
- Kalamazoo? (2006)
- The Wishing Well (2009)
=Television=
- Ryan's Hope (recurring role, 1981)
- Taxi (recurring role, 1982–3)
- Wiseguy (recurring role, 1989)
- Cheers (recurring role, 1989–90)
- The Man in the Family (main role, 1991)
- The X-Files (ep. The Erlenmeyer Flask, 1994)
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Category:Actresses from Philadelphia
Category:American film actresses
Category:American stage actresses
Category:American television actresses
Category:Film directors from Pennsylvania
Category:21st-century American actresses