Gretchen Mol Nude Scenes: Boardwalk Empire, Bettie Page and More

Yes, Gretchen Mol has done nude scenes: as Gillian Darmody in HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, as Bettie Page in The Notorious Bettie Page, in a sex scene in Forever Mine, and in a lesbian scene in Mozart in the Jungle.

This hub collects 7 clips, each with its length and its own write-up: three from Boardwalk Empire, two from The Notorious Bettie Page, one from Forever Mine and one from Mozart in the Jungle. The hero clip above is Gillian’s Family Limitation bedroom scene, her longest Boardwalk Empire nude.

Updated: November 5, 2026 (Bangkok). New hub: every clip written up from scratch.

I’ve been behind the camera since 2001 and shot 2,000+ scenes, and I’ll be straight with you: Gretchen Mol is a proper nude actress when the role asks for it. Bettie Page is the signature performance, Boardwalk Empire is where she stayed naked the longest, and Forever Mine is the early sex scene people still look for. Here is every clip of hers worth your time, and I’ll tell you what I left out.

Gretchen Mol is an American actress best known as Gillian Darmody in Terence Winter’s Boardwalk Empire and as Bettie Page in Mary Harron’s 2005 biopic. She came up in late-nineties New York film (Rounders, Celebrity, The 13th Floor), made the cover of Vanity Fair in the late nineties, and later showed up in 3:10 to Yuma and Manchester by the Sea.

Gretchen Mol in Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014)

Series: Boardwalk Empire (HBO, five seasons), created by Terence Winter | Role: Gillian Darmody | What you see: full nudity and topless club scenes

Gillian is a former Cafe Beaux-Arts cabaret dancer who becomes one of the most complicated women on the Atlantic City boardwalk. The clips below are her adult bedroom and club scenes only. For the rest of the cast, see the Boardwalk Empire sex scenes hub.

Gillian in Family Limitation (2:46)

This is the clip at the top of this page.

Season 1, episode 6. Gillian Darmody, Jimmy’s mother and a former Cafe Beaux-Arts cabaret dancer, still knows how to work a room. Gretchen Mol is naked in bed in a long, unhurried scene that shows why every man in Atlantic City still looks at her twice. Soft light, no rush, and she is very much in control of the moment. At two minutes forty-six, it is her longest Boardwalk Empire clip on this page.

Gillian in bed, season 1 (2:16)

Another of Gillian’s bedroom scenes from the first season. Soft light, a metal bed frame, and Gretchen Mol lying back naked while a lover leans over her. The show always treated Gillian’s adult sexuality as something she owned, and this clip is the cleanest example of that.

Gillian in Sunday Best (1:27)

Season 3, episode 7. By now Gillian is running the Artemis Club, and this is her in her element. Gretchen Mol is topless for most of the clip, moving through a private room as if the camera were just another client. A quiet episode, and her scene is the heat in the middle of it.

Gretchen Mol in The Notorious Bettie Page (2005)

Film: The Notorious Bettie Page (2005), directed by Mary Harron | Role: Bettie Page | What you see: nude modeling photoshoots, outdoor and studio

Gretchen Mol spent two years attached to the part while Harron raised the money, and it shows. The film is mostly black and white, and the nude scenes are recreations of Bettie’s real pin-up shoots: forest, studio, Christmas tree, leopard set. No sex, just the body that made Bettie famous.

Bettie Page outdoor photoshoot (2:15)

Mary Harron’s 2005 biopic, black and white. Bettie is naked in a sunlit forest while a photographer works a twin-lens camera on a tripod. Tall grass, tree trunks, dappled light, and Gretchen Mol holding the pose the way Bettie did. Two minutes of pure pin-up craft, no dialogue, just the shoot.

Christmas tree studio shoot (1:15)

Back in the studio. Bettie sits nude on a white rug in front of a green seamless backdrop, decorating a flocked Christmas tree while Bunny Yeager’s camera waits. Fuzzy white hat, bangs, and a long look at the body that made Bettie famous. Trimmed past the opening title cards.

Gretchen Mol in Forever Mine (1999)

Film: Forever Mine (1999), directed by Paul Schrader | Role: Ella Brice | What you see: a short nude sex scene

An early lead for Mol, opposite Joseph Fiennes and Ray Liotta. Ella’s affair is the engine of the plot, and the bedroom scene is brief but fully nude.

Forever Mine sex scene (0:35)

Paul Schrader’s 1999 romance. Ella Brice in bed with her lover, kissing and rolling under white sheets in warm light. Gretchen Mol is fully nude for the scene, breasts clear as they move together. Short (about 35 seconds) and shot on a smaller source, but it is her earliest real sex scene and it still lands.

Gretchen Mol in Mozart in the Jungle (2015)

Series: Mozart in the Jungle (Amazon), season 2 | Role: Nina | What you see: a lesbian bedroom scene with Saffron Burrows

A quieter one. Nina and Saffron Burrows’ character under the sheets, talking and kissing, bare shoulders and soft light. Not Boardwalk Empire heat, but a real nude scene from her middle period.

Mozart in the Jungle with Saffron Burrows (1:20)

Amazon’s Mozart in the Jungle. Gretchen Mol (Nina) and Saffron Burrows under white sheets in a dim bedroom, bare-shouldered, talking and smiling between kisses. Soft lamp light, striped blanket, and a quiet lesbian scene that never rushes. About a minute twenty.

What I Left Out

I kept this page to scenes that are worth watching and that belong on Scandal Planet. I skipped Gillian’s scene with the Commodore in “What Does the Bee Do?” and her season 2 scene with Jimmy in “Ging Gang Goolie,” because both sit next to the show’s darkest Gillian material. I also left out An American Affair and Just Looking, short Chance and American Gigolo underwear clips, Palm Trees and Power Lines, and a pile of bikini or pasties-only cuts from Boardwalk Empire and Donnie Brasco. The five-minute Bettie Page compilation exists; the two clips above are the cleanest of that set.

Who Is Gretchen Mol?

Gretchen Mol was born on November 8, 1972, in Deep River, Connecticut. Her mother Janet is an artist and teacher, her father James was a teacher, and her brother Jim works in film. She trained at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy and the William Esper Studio, ushered at the Angelika Film Center in New York, and got her first film job in a Spike Lee picture in 1996.

By 1998 she was on the cover of Vanity Fair and working with Woody Allen, Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio. The Notorious Bettie Page (2005) was the role she fought for, Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014) was the long HBO run, and she has kept taking film work since, including 3:10 to Yuma and Manchester by the Sea. She has been married to the director Tod Williams since 2004; they have a son and a daughter.

Gretchen Mol FAQ

Has Gretchen Mol done nude scenes?

Yes. Her main nude work is as Gillian Darmody in Boardwalk Empire, as Bettie Page in The Notorious Bettie Page (2005), a sex scene in Forever Mine (1999), and a lesbian scene with Saffron Burrows in Mozart in the Jungle.

Is Gretchen Mol nude in Boardwalk Empire?

Yes. As Gillian Darmody she has several full-nude bedroom scenes in season 1 and topless club scenes later, including Family Limitation and Sunday Best.

Is Gretchen Mol nude in The Notorious Bettie Page?

Yes. She plays Bettie Page and recreates Bettie’s nude pin-up photoshoots, including an outdoor forest session and a studio Christmas-tree shoot.

Who does Gretchen Mol play in Boardwalk Empire?

Gillian Darmody, a former Cafe Beaux-Arts cabaret dancer and one of the central women in Terence Winter’s HBO series.

How old is Gretchen Mol?

She was born on November 8, 1972, so she is 53 in 2026.

That is every Gretchen Mol scene I would actually send someone to. If a new one turns up that belongs here, I will add it.

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