Biography

Actress, author and activist Annabelle Gurwitch (Dinner and a Movie) takes social issues and gives them her own brand of humor and perspective. She is a columnist for The Nation Magazine and an NPR contributor where her targets range from everything from politics to pop culture. Her essays appear in two anthologies: Note to Self (Simon Spotlight, 1/09) and Rejected (Villard, 1/09) and blogs for the Huffington Post. Annabelle speaks on sustainability isues around the country and is also a national spokesperson for the Do Not Mail Registry sponsored by the N.G.O. Forest Ethics, and sits on the advisory board of United Professionals, an advocacy group for labor. She hosts the series WA$TED, now in it’s second season on Planet Green, a Discovery Channel network. You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up, Annabelle’s new book, a comedic memoir written with her husband, Jeff Kahn, will be published by Random House on Valentine’s Day, 2010.

Annabelle’s book: Fired! , was deemed a “merry compendium of failure” by The Washington Post, was #1 on The New York Post Hot List and has been featured in media as varied as The Today Show, Fox and Friends, CNN, MSNBC, Talk of The Nation on NPR, Psychology Today, The New York Times, and People. Time Magazine cited Annabelle in their cover story “10 Ideas that are Changing the World” for her Fired! documentary film. Celebrated as “entertaining and slyly subversive” by Oprah Magazine, her Fired! documentary is currently in rotation on the Showtime and Sundance channels. She regularly opinionates on Headline News, Tru TV, Fox News and VHI.

Her non-scripted TV work includes her six year stint on the cult favorite Dinner and a Movie for T.B.S. and hosting shows on The Style Channel, Sci-Fi, VH1, ABC, The Game Show Network and HBO. Recent guest spots include: Medium, State of Mind, The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman and Boston Legal. Her films include: Shaggy Dog and Melvin Goes to Dinner. Annabelle’s work off-Broadway in the title role of Murray Mednick’s Joe and Betty garnered her place in The New York Times Top Ten Performances in Theatre of the Year 2002. Her essays have been featured in publications including The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Magazine, Child, Glamour, Penthouse and the on-line essay salon Fresh Yarn.

She attended the Experimental Theatre Wing of NYU and lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Emmy Award winning writer Jeff Kahn, and their 11 year old son.

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