Allison Anders
Director, screenwriter · United States · On the map · Directors · Born 1954 · age 71
Allison Anders is an American independent film director whose films include Gas Food Lodging, Mi Vida Loca and Grace of My Heart. Anders has collaborated with fellow UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television graduate Kurt Voss and has also worked as a television director.
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Something wrong?A life in dates
The Secret Lives of Bill BartellFilm2022
Only in TheatersFilm2019
HalFilm2018
Mayans M.C.Series, Director2017
RiverdaleSeries, Director2016
Shirley Clarke: The Artist with the LensFilm2014
The AffairSeries, Director2013
Orange Is the New BlackSeries, Director
Ring of FireFilm, 2013Director2010
IconoclastFilm, Herself2008
The MentalistSeries, DirectorActing for Douglas SirkFilm2007
Indie SexSeries
The Pacific and EddyFilm, 2007Producer2004
The L WordSeries, Director2003
Cold CaseSeries, Director2002
Sundance 20Film2000
Welcome to HollywoodFilm, Allison Anders1998
Sex and the CitySeries, Director1997
Lover GirlFilm, Producer1995MacArthur Fellows ProgramAward
Cinefile: Reel WomenFilm, 19951993
Intimate PortraitSeries
Made in the USAFilm, 19931987
Border RadioFilm, Director, Writer1954Born16 November 1954People around Allison
Close ties
Salma Hayek Allison directed Four Rooms and Mi Vida Loca
Lucinda Jenney Allison directed Grace of My Heart (1996)- Kurt Voss Also in In the Echo, Border Radio and Sugar Town
Jewel Allison directed Men in Trees and Ring of Fire
Chris Mulkey Allison directed Gas Food Lodging and Sugar Town
Ione Skye Allison directed Four Rooms and Gas Food Lodging
Jacob Vargas Allison directed Gas Food Lodging (1992)
John Doe Allison directed Ring of Fire (2013)
Carl Colpaert Produced Gas Food Lodging and Mi Vida Loca
Peter Fonda Allison directed Grace of My Heart (1996)
Patsy Kensit Allison directed Grace of My Heart (1996)
Joshua Leonard Directed The Lie (2011)
J Mascis Also in Gas Food Lodging and Grace of My Heart
Amanda de Cadenet Allison directed Four Rooms (1996)
Madonna Allison directed Four Rooms (1996)
Quentin Tarantino Allison directed Four Rooms (1995)
Bruce Willis Allison directed Four Rooms (1995)
Antonio Banderas Allison directed Four Rooms (1996)
Danny Trejo Allison directed Mi Vida Loca (1993)
Katee Sackhoff Allison directed Volunteers (2004)
Ally Sheedy Allison directed Sugar Town (1999)
Kathryn Morris Allison directed Volunteers (2004)
Danny Pino Allison directed Volunteers (2004)
Chelan Simmons Allison directed Men in Trees
Known for
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This Film Is Not Yet Rated 2006
American Grindhouse 2011
I Believe in Unicorns 2015
Gas Food Lodging 1992
Grace of My Heart 1996
Also in Deutsch
Filmography 36
64 credits on file
Television 17
Media & music
Photos 1
Awards
About this person
Anders' films have been shown at the Cannes International Film Festival and at the Sundance Film Festival. She has been awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant as well as a Peabody Award.
