77-летняя актриса, сыгравшая сестру Вуди Аллена и невесту Тони Данзы, замечена в Лос-Анджелесе

Arthur star, 77, played Woody Allen's sister and Tony Danza's fiancée then acted with Jamie Lee Curtis and John Travolta... who is she? - Get exclusive reporting, celebrity gossip, sensational photos and more every Tuesday morning in our new Spotlight US newsletter HERE - Have YOU got a story? Email [email protected] - See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred Source A beloved character actress who enjoyed a gangbusters career in the 1980s was seen running errands in Los Angeles this week aged 77. Born in Philadelphia, she specialized in playing rough-hewn New Yorkers, including Woody Allen's sister and an escort Dudley Moore brings to a high-end restaurant. One of her memorable turns on the small screen was as a love interest of the Tony Danza character on his star-making series Taxi. As the 1980s progressed, she worked with such top-flight names of the era as Jamie Lee Curtis, John Travolta, Whoopi Goldberg and Susan Sarandon. In the following decades, she acted in such movies as Taking Care of Business with James Belushi and Charles Grodin and featured on shows like Cheers, The X-Files, Sex and the City and Entourage. Can you guess who she is? A beloved character actress who enjoyed a gangbusters career in the 1980s was seen running errands in Los Angeles this week aged 77 Born in Philadelphia, she specialized in playing rough-hewn New Yorkers, including Woody Allen's sister and an escort Dudley Moore brings to a fancy restaurant As the 1980s progressed, she worked with such top-flight names of the era as Jamie Lee Curtis, John Travolta, Whoopi Goldberg and Susan Sarandon She is none other than Anne DeSalvo, who made an indelible impression as a street walker in the rollicking opening sequence of the 1981 comedy Arthur. The Daily Mail has contacted DeSalvo's representatives for comment. Born in 1949, she grew up in Overbrook, which she later characterized as one of the 'two big Italian ghettoes' of Philadelphia, via the New York Times. After majoring in art at Temple University in her hometown, she struck out to New York to pursue an acting career but was tagged as 'too ethnic,' she recalled. 'I went to open calls for a year and a half, but I never got to audition for anything major,' said DeSalvo, who supported herself as an art teacher in her struggling years. Her ship finally came in with her Obie-winning performance as an Italian American widow in Albert Innaurato's 1977 Broadway play Gemini. 'Lucille Pompi, the character I play, contains a little of my Aunt Rosie, a little of old Mrs C up the street, a little of a lot of things from my own Italian upbringing,' she said. By 1980, she was playing the sister of Woody Allen's filmmaker character in Stardust Memories, his affectionate spoof of Federico Fellini's 8½. 'That guy is, like, the best. When I met him we laughed for 20 minutes,' she raved a decade later while discussing Allen to the Los Angeles Times. She is none other than Anne DeSalvo (left), who made an indelible impression as a street walker in the rollicking opening sequence of Dudley Moore's (right) 1981 comedy Arthur DeSalvo has confessed she was 'usually the shrew' in her pictures, one of which was the 1983 Joel Schumacher action comedy DC Cab, for which she is pictured She held a recurring role on the final season of Taxi as Vicki, the fiancée of the good-natured but dimwitted cabbie Tony, played by Tony Danza (right) DeSalvo is pictured with John Travolta (right) and Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner (left) in the 1985 picture Perfect, which also starred Jamie Lee Curtis In the 1990 comedy Taking Care of Business, she played the atypically vulnerable role of a woman in unrequited love with a married man portrayed by Charles Grodin In 1981, she featured in Arthur as a prostitute called Gloria who is hired by Dudley Moore's title character, a charmingly drunken playboy. Over the course of their shambolic night out, Arthur brings Gloria to an upscale restaurant and introduces her to his straitlaced aunt and uncle as a 'princess' from 'a very small country in the West Indies.' They are woken the next day by his tart-tongued butler Hobson, played by John Gielgud, for whom Gloria is only able to muster a bleary: 'Hi.' 'You obviously have a wonderful economy with words, Gloria,' Hobson replies. 'I look forward to your next syllable with great eagerness.' DeSalvo has confessed she was 'usually the shrew' in her pictures, one of which was the 1983 action comedy DC Cab, directed by Joel Schumacher and starring Mr T, Adam Baldwin, Gary Busey, Max Gail and a young Bill Maher. Another was My Favorite Year, which was led by Peter O'Toole in an Oscar-nominated performance as an over-the-hill Old Hollywood star and saw DeSalvo slotted into the supporting part of a young, snappy TV writer. She held a recurring role on the final season of Taxi as Vicki, the fiancée of the good-natured but dimwitted cabbie Tony, played by Tony Danza. DeSalvo worked with Jamie Lee Curtis and John Travolta in Perfect, a 1985 send-up of Los Angeles' fitness-obsessed culture that reunited her with Taxi's Marilu Henner. She won an Obie for her performance as an Italian American widow in Albert Innaurato's 1977 play Gemini, in which she is pictured with (left) Danny Aiello and (center) Dennis Bailey By 1980, she was playing the sister of Woody Allen's filmmaker character in Stardust Memories, his affectionate spoof of Federico Fellini's 8½ The picture also featured Saturday Night Live original cast member Laraine Newman, the mother of Hannah Einbinder, and Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner. Also in 1985, she played the cuckolded wife of a murdered dentist in Compromising Positions, which was fronted by Susan Sarandon as a bored homemaker who gets coaxed back into her former profession of journalism as a result of the homicide. She then played a detective in the 1987 heist comedy Burglar, in which Whoopi Goldberg and Bobcat Goldthwait played partners in crime. The 1980s saw DeSalvo work with Paul Morrissey, a filmmaker primarily known for his association with Andy Warhol, on the mafia comedy Spike of Bensonhurst. Her character in that film harbored pretensions to being 'the Jackie Onassis of Brooklyn,' she explained with a laugh on the talk show Joan Quinn, Etc. 'I love playing characters that are completely out of touch with themselves. I think they're the most fun to play, especially in comedy, where there's so much irony as to who people think they are and who they really are, or what they want to project to the world, and that was a character that I really enjoyed doing.' At the close of the decade, she featured in the early Todd Solondz picture Fear, Anxiety and Depression, starring the director alongside Stanley Tucci. As the 1990s dawned, she was able to explore new horizons in the comedy Taking Care of Business, playing the atypically vulnerable role of a woman in unrequited love with a married man portrayed by Charles Grodin. In her later career, featured on shows like Cheers - on which she is pictured with Kelsey Grammer (left) and Rhea Perlman (center) - plus The X-Files, Sex and the City and Entourage She landed a lead role on the short-lived 1991 sitcom The Man in the Family, starring Ray Sharkey as a man who assumes control of his late father's Brooklyn grocery store 'You get to see me pierced,' she said. 'People have been referring to my performance as "adorable." I have never been called adorable in my profession.' She landed a lead role on the short-lived 1991 sitcom The Man in the Family, starring Ray Sharkey as a man who assumes control of his late father's Brooklyn grocery store, at the head of a cast including pre-fame Leah Remini. In 1994, she featured in National Lampoon's Attack of the 5ft 2in Women, a made-for-TV satire of the Lorena Bobbitt and Tonya Harding cases, and in 1997 she wrote, directed and starred in the Lifetime comedy short Women Without Implants. Her feature directorial debut followed in 2001 with The Amati Girls, a drama starring Cloris Leachman as the newly widowed matriarch of an Italian family in Philadelphia. In the 21st century, she has guested on such hit TV series as Sex and the City, Entourage, Monk, 2 Broke Girls and CSI: Miami. DeSalvo is still working, with projects in the pipeline including the drama film Judge No Book, featuring Carlito's Way actor Bo Dietl.