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==Early life== Archer was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of actors [[John Archer (actor)|John Archer]] and [[Marjorie Lord]].<ref name="thise">{{cite book|last=Thise|first=Mark|url=https://archive.org/details/hollywoodwinners0000this/page/5|title=Hollywood Winners & Losers A to Z|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|year=2008|isbn=978-0-87910-351-4|pages=[https://archive.org/details/hollywoodwinners0000this/page/5 5]|quote=She is the international spokeswoman for Applied Scholastic International, a front group for the Cult of Scientology.}}</ref> She graduated from [[Pitzer College]] in [[Claremont, California]], in 1968.<ref name=tvg/> Archer married William Davis in 1969. They had one son, [[Tommy Davis (Scientology)|Thomas William "Tommy" Davis]], born on August 18, 1972. The couple divorced in 1977.<ref name="allamerican">{{cite news|year=2008|title=Biography of Anne Archer|work=All American Talent and Celebrity Network|publisher=www.allamericanspeakers.com|url=http://www.allamericanspeakers.com/speakers/Anne-Archer/1595|url-status=live|access-date=October 18, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081004183528/http://www.allamericanspeakers.com/speakers/Anne-Archer/1595|archive-date=October 4, 2008}}</ref> She married Terry Jastrow in 1979.<ref name="allamerican" /> They have one son together, Jeffrey Tucker Jastrow, born on October 18, 1984.<ref name="allamerican" /><ref>{{cite web|date=July 11, 2014|title=Anne Archer: My Family Values|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jul/11/anne-archer-my-family-values-scientology|access-date=April 4, 2018}}</ref> She was originally a [[Christian Scientist]],<ref name="newyorker">{{cite magazine|last=Wright|first=Lawrence|date=February 14, 2011|title=The Apostate: Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology|url=http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/02/14/110214fa_fact_wright?currentPage=22|magazine=[[The New Yorker]]|access-date=March 8, 2011}}</ref> but she and her husband have been members of the [[Church of Scientology]] since 1975.<ref>{{cite web|date=September 26, 2016|title=SCIENTOLOGY'S TOP 20 CELEBRITIES β in order of those most likely to defect|url=https://tonyortega.org/2016/09/26/scientologys-20-biggest-celebrities-in-order-of-those-most-like-to-defect/|access-date=March 16, 2018|publisher=The Underground Bunker}}</ref> Archer's stepfather was Los Angeles banker and philanthropist [[Harry Volk]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Oliver|first=Myrna|date=13 May 2000|title=Harry J. Volk, 94, a Bank Executive Known for Innovations|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-may-13-me-29644-story.html|url-access=registration|access-date=2020-08-20}}</ref> Between 1982 and 1986, she was a spokeswoman for [[Applied Scholastics]], the literacy training organization sponsored by the Church of Scientology.<ref name="thise" /><ref>{{cite book|last=Ebner|first=Mark|title=[[Hollywood, Interrupted]]|author2=Andrew Breitbart|publisher=John Wiley and Sons|year=2004|isbn=0-471-45051-0|pages=[https://archive.org/details/hollywoodinterru00brei/page/128 128]|author-link=Mark Ebner}}</ref> Her son Tommy was the head of the Church of Scientology's [[Celebrity Centre]] International in Los Angeles.<ref name="shaw0217">{{cite news|last=Shaw|first=William|date=February 17, 2008|title=The science of celebrity|page=26|work=[[The Sunday Telegraph]]}}</ref><ref name="morton">{{cite book|last=Morton|first=Andrew|title=[[Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography]]|publisher=[[St. Martin's Press]]|year=2008|isbn=978-0-312-35986-7|location=[[New York City|New York]]|pages=[https://archive.org/details/tomcruiseunautho00mort/page/243 243, 317]|author-link=Andrew Morton (writer)}}</ref> In 1991, Archer spoke publicly about her [[abortion]] in the book ''[[The Choices We Made]]: Twenty-Five Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion.''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Celebrities speak out on abortion|url=https://ew.com/article/1991/02/08/celebrities-speak-out-abortion/|access-date=May 27, 2019|website=EW.com|language=en}}</ref>
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