Ann Magnuson

Ann Magnuson is exactly the sort of restless, genre-jumping artist I gravitate toward. The New York Times once compared her range to Lily Tomlin, and that feels right, since she moves between performance art, acting, and music without ever fully committing to one lane. I love that she came out of West Virginia and Denison University and ended up at the center of the 1980s downtown New York scene, fronting Bongwater while also landing the ABC sitcom Anything but Love. Her turn in The Hunger shows the eerie edge underneath the comedy. A true chameleon who treats reinvention as the whole point.

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Name (English)

Ann Magnuson

Name (Japanese)

アン・マグナソン

Reading

あん・まぐなそん

Born

January 4, 1956 (age 70)

Origin

Charleston, West Virginia, United States

Occupation

actor / performance artist / singer / stage actor / television actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Monkey

High school

George Washington High School

University

Denison University

• Official sitehttps://www.annmagnuson.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann%20Magnuson
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B0%E3%83%8A%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q538546

Tags

• West Virginia
• actor
• performance artist
• singer

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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