Trivia

Auditioned for the role of Lois Lane in Superman (1978), but lost to Margot Kidder.

Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#62). (1995)

Former Miss Golden Globe.

Daughter of John Archer and Marjorie Lord.

As Mrs Robinson in the London West End stage play adaptation of "The Graduate", she follows Kathleen Turner, Jerry Hall, and Amanda Donohoe (July 2001)

Along with Harrison Ford, James Earl Jones and Thora Birch, she is one of only four actors to play the same character in more than one film in the "Jack Ryan" series. She played Ryan's wife Cathy in Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994).

Her film performances in Innocents (2000) and Mojave Moon (1996) are the ones she is currently most proud of.

Her father, John Archer, played The Shadow on the radio. He was later succeeded on film by Alec Baldwin, who also appeared in The Hunt for Red October (1990). Anne played the wife of Alec's character (now played by Harrison Ford) in Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994).

Once did a TV commercial spot for Broncho Chevrolet, a car dealership in Odessa, Texas.

Has a brother named Gregg Bowman (as their father's birth name was Ralph Bowman before he legally changed it) and two younger half-siblings named John Archer and Lisa Archer.

Mother of two sons: Tommy Davis (b. August 18th 1972) and Jeffrey Tucker Jastrow (b. October 18th 1984).

She has German and English, and smaller amounts of Bohemian Czech, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Scottish, and Swiss-German, ancestry.

She is the International Spokesperson for Applied Scholastics International, that provides training in "study technology" developed by L. Ron Hubbard.

The only actress to have played the wife of Harrison Ford and Michael Douglas. Archer played Michael Douglas' wife in "Fatal Attraction" (1987) and she played Harrison Ford's wife in the Jack Ryan films "Patriot Games" (1992) and "Clear and Present Danger" (1994).