Ann Whitney

Acting

Ann Whitney

Born 1931-01-19

Ann Whitney is an award-winning American stage, film, and television actress based primarily in Chicago. She is perhaps most famously recognized by global audiences for her memorable cameo role in the 1990 blockbuster holiday comedy Home Alone, where she played the drugstore checkout clerk who questions a panicked Kevin McCallister about whether his toothbrush is approved by the American Dental Association (ADA).

Acting credits

The Fugitive poster
7.5

Wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find the real killer and clear his name.

The Fugitive

1993

Chain Reaction poster
5.8

At the University of Chicago, a research team that includes brilliant student machinist Eddie Kasalivich experiences a breakthrough: a stable form of fusion that may lead to a waste-free energy source. However, a private company wants to exploit the technology, so Kasalivich and physicist Dr. Lily Sinclair are framed for murder, and the fusion device is stolen. On the run from the FBI, they must recover the technology and exonerate themselves.

Chain Reaction

1996

While You Were Sleeping poster
7.0

A transit worker pulls commuter Peter off railway tracks after he's mugged, but—while he's in a coma—his family mistakenly thinks she's Peter's fiancée, and she doesn't correct them. Things get more complicated when she falls for his brother, who's not quite sure that she's who she claims to be.

While You Were Sleeping

1995

What They Had poster
6.5

A woman must fly back to her hometown when her Alzheimer's-stricken mother wanders into a blizzard. The return home forces her to confront her past.

What They Had

2018

Light of Day poster
5.5

Cleveland siblings rise with a rock band while coping with personal problems.

Light of Day

1987

Home Alone poster
7.5

Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. When thieves try to break into his home, he puts up a fight like no other.

Home Alone

1990

Sugar poster
6.6

Like many young men in the Dominican Republic, 19-year-old Miguel "Sugar" Santos dreams of winning a slot on an American baseball team. Indeed, his talents as a pitcher eventually land him a slot on a single-A team in Iowa, but culture shock, racism and other curveballs threaten to turn Sugar's dream sour.

Sugar

2008

Murder Ordained poster
5.0

This is the story of a minister who's feeling unhappy in his marriage who then has an affair with a church employee, who is also married, and who also has affairs, and whose husband is unwilling to divorce her. One day the minister's wife is found dead, in what appears to be an auto accident, but the highway patrolman who investigated the accident doesn't think that it's an accident but doesn't have enough evidence to justify an investigation. Later, when the woman's husband is killed an investigation begins.

Murder Ordained

1987