Anne Wittman

Anne is an American actress originally from New York, now based primarily in London, she also works from either US coast, as needed. She has extensive experience in film, television, stage and audio of all sorts. She has also lived and worked up and down the East Coast as well as in Chicago, Washington DC and Arizona.

She played the irate blonde church woman opposite Colin Firth in Kingsman: The Secret Service, and the New York housewife in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. She also played Miss Daphne in cult musician Melanie Martinez's feature K-12 produced by Atlantic Records. Other film roles include a CNN Newscaster in Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer and Proof directed by John Madden where she plays the friend Joanne opposite Hope Davis and Gwyneth Paltrow. She played the lead role of Laura in the indie arthouse feature People in Landscape with Gina Gershon and Eric Roberts. Anne has appeared in leading roles in about thirty independent short films.

On TV you can see her playing Joan Bassett opposite Keri Russell in The Diplomat on Netflix. She plays Lauren in Armando Iannucci's Avenue 5 in series 1 and 2 for HBO, the US President in Crackanory - The Translator for Dave Channel and is in Living the Dream series 2 produced by Big Talk for Sky 1, as well as Flowers in the Attic on A&E Stilking/Lifetime USA and Suspicion: Shadow of Doubt for October Films.

The great-granddaughter of an actor-manager from the Bronx during the heyday of New York theatre, Anne began acting at age 14 and has worked onstage in the US, UK and abroad. Stage work includes, among many others, The American Wife at Park Theatre in London, a leading role for English Theatre Frankfurt in their acclaimed production The Dead Guy, and A Round-Heeled Woman starring Sharon Gless at the Aldwych Theatre in London. She did AR Gurney's two-hander Love Letters at the King's Head in London, directed by Kate Gielgud. Her one-woman show The Have-Nots by celebrated writer Elizabeth Hand transferred to BAC after winning Time Out Critic's Choice Pick of London's One-Person Show Festival.

Anne is also an experienced and highly skilled voice actress. She is most proud of having voiced the late journalist Marie Colvin's final dispatches in Under the Wire for BBC4's Storyville and History Films in the US. She played the title role in the radio play Migrant Mother for BBC Radio 3. She has been nominated for the 2023 VOX Awards for Animation and the One Voice Awards in 2023 for Animation, 2019 for Documentary Narration and 2018 for Audiobooks. Most recently, she had great fun voicing the leads in three animation projects for award-winning writers Lavie Tidhar and Nir Yaniv's company Positronish. She has also recorded audiobooks for NY Times bestselling writers and has been nominated for awards for several of these.

Anne's training includes two years with legendary Stella Adler at her New York studio and two years at The Bristol Old Vic School's postgraduate programme in acting with inspiring Rudi Shelley. She was an acting major at Northwestern University School of Communication, did numerous workshops with ground-breaking New York director Anne Bogart, and had three years' part-time study at the Michael Chekhov Studio in New York - among others. More than anything, Anne takes joy in collaboration. She has also coached dialect and acting privately and for major film, TV and West End theatre productions for over eighteen years.