Anna Thomson

Anna Thomson (born Anna Levine September 18, 1953) is an American actress known for roles in Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven and several films directed by the Israeli filmmaker Amos Kollek. Over the course of her career she was also credited as Anna Levine-Thomson.

Career Thomson made her acting debut in the Off-Broadway play Kid Champion in 1975, and at the recommendation of her friend Christopher Walken, who she considered her "godfather in cinema". 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.

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, and appearing on The Tracey Ullman Show and the HBO comedy sketch show Hardcore TV.

Her collaborations with the Israeli filmmaker Amos Kollek, among them Sue, Fiona and Fast Food Fast Women, earned Thomson cult status in France. 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." By 2001 she had parted ways with her US acting agent entirely. 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" in 2002's Bridget, to date her final collaboration with Kollek.

Personal life Thomson was orphaned at an early age and adopted by fashion designer Beth Levine and business executive Herbert Levine before being raised between New York and France. She trained as a ballet dancer.

She married actor Davidson Thomson in 1989, after meeting while working on the Off-off-Broadway play The Poets’ Corner. They had twin sons in 1992, and were married until Thomson's death in 1993. She subsequently remarried, and now lives under the name Anna Thomson-Wilson.

Filmography Year Title RoleNotes 1979 Night-Flowers Sandy (as Anna Levine) 1980 Heaven's Gate Little Dot (as Anna Levine) 1982 Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice Janie (as Anna Levine) 1984 The Pope of Greenwich Village Waitress at Country Inn (as Anna Levine) 1984 Maria's Lovers Kathy (as Anna Levine) 1985 Desperately Seeking Susan Crystal (as Anna Levine) 1985 Murphy's Romance Wanda (as Anna Levine) 1986 At Close Range Barroom Dancer (as Anna Levine) 1986 Something Wild The Girl in 3F (as Anna Levine) 1987 Fatal Attraction Secretary (as Anna Levine) 1987 Wall Street Elevator Person (as Anna Levine) 1987 Leonard Part 6 Nurse Carvalho (as Anna Levine) 1988 White Hot Heather (as Anna Levine) 1988 Bird Audrey (as Anna Levine) 1988 Talk Radio Denise (as Anna Levine) 1989 Warlock Pastor's Wife (as Anna Levine) 1990 Tune in Tomorrow... Faith Hope (as Anna Levine Thomson) 1991 Dead in the Water Edie Meyers 1992 CrissCross Monica (as Anna Levine Thomson) 1992 Unforgiven Delilah Fitzgerald 1993 True Romance Lucy 1994 Darla Mohr 1994 Hand Gun Laura 1994 Baby's Day Out Mrs. McCray 1994 Blood Run Tanya 1995 Angela Mae 1995 Bad Boys Francine 1995 Cafe Society Erica Steele 1995 Drunks Tanya 1995 Angus April Thomas 1995 Other Voices, Other Rooms Amy Skully 1996 I Shot Andy Warhol Iris 1996 Dead Girl Audition Receptionist 1997 Sue Lost in Manhattan Sue 1997 Six Ways to Sunday Annibelle 1997 Trouble on the Corner The Butcher's Wife 1998 Jaded Alexandra 'Alex' Arnold 1998 Fiona Fiona 1999 Stringer Ashley 2000 Antoinette De la Paix (as Anna Thompson) 2000 Water Drops on Burning Rocks Vera 2000 Fast Food Fast Women Bella 2002 Bridget Bridget 2002 Mr. Smith Gets a Hustler Doreen (as Anna Thompson)