• Graduated from the William Esper Studio
• She worked as a hat check girl at a restaurant where her agent-to-be spotted her and got her a coke commercial.
• Gretchen's mother is an artist and her father is a school principal. Her parents divorced when she was young. She has an older brother.
• Sister of Jim Mol
• Graduated from the prestigious American Musical and Dramatic Academy. That is the same school that actors such as Lee Tergesen ("Oz"), Tyne Daly ("Judging Amy") and Paul Sorvino ( The Goodfellas") attended.
• Went to the same high school as broadway actor Peter Lockyer.

Gretchen Mol pronounced GRE-chin MALL was born on November 8 1973 in Deep River, Connecticut. Her father divorced Gretchen's mother 1983; Her mother is Janet, artist, teacher; brother: Jim, editor, born 1971, studied filmmaking at NYU. She graduated from the William Esper Studio majored in acting; Trained at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (majored in acting) in New York, NY; graduated from Valley Regional High School in 1990. She worked as a hat check girl at a restaurant where her agent-to-be spotted her and got her a coke commercial.