MARIEL HEMINGWAY
Name: Mariel Hemingway
Birth name: Mariel Hadley Hemingway
Born: 22 November 1961 Mill Valley, California
Mariel Hadley Hemingway (born November 22, 1961) is an Academy Award- and Golden
Globe-nominated American actress.
Hemingway was born in Mill Valley, California, the daughter of Byra Louise (née
Whittlesey) and Jack Hemingway, a writer. Her paternal grandfather was writer
Ernest Hemingway and her sister was Margaux Hemingway; she never met her
grandfather, as he died several months before she was born. She was named after
the Cuban port of Mariel - a village that her father and grandfather visited
regularly as sportsmen to fish. Her middle name was after her paternal
grandmother, Ernest's first wife Hadley Richardson. Hemingway grew up primarily
in Ketchum, Idaho, where her father lived, and where her paternal grandfather
also spent a great deal of time as a sportsman and writer. Mariel also spent
part of her adolescence growing up in New York and Los Angeles.
Hemingway's first role was with her sister Margaux in the 1976 film Lipstick.
The movie was not considered especially good, but Mariel did receive notice for
the quality of her acting, and she was nominated as "Best Newcomer" for the
Golden Globes Award that year. Hemingway's most famous role was in Woody Allen's
Manhattan, in which she plays Allen's high school lover. Only 17 at the time,
she was nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actress.
In the 1982 movie Personal Best, she played a bisexual athlete in a movie noted
for some explicit (by mainstream standards) lesbian love scenes. In connection
with Personal Best she appeared in a pictorial in the April 1982 issue of
Playboy, including the cover. In 1983, she starred as Dorothy Stratten in Star
80, a film about the Playboy model's life and murder. Reports circulated for
years that Hemingway had her breasts enlarged to play the role of Stratten, but
during a 2007 appearance on Fashionably Late with Stacy London, she said she had
the surgery before Star 80 came up. Her implants were removed years later after
they had ruptured. Hemingway was featured in newly discovered deleted footage,
which was shown in a very rough edit with unfinished visual effects, from
Superman IV: The Quest For Peace and was released on DVD in November 2006 as a
Deluxe Edition and as part of The Ultimate Superman Collection.
Hemingway has played a lesbian in several film or television shows, including
Personal Best, an infamous episode of the sitcom Roseanne in which she kissed
Roseanne Barr on the lips, and an episode of Crossing Jordan, but the actress is
not gay. Hemingway has said she formed a "big connection with the gay and
lesbian community" after Personal Best and enjoys taking roles in "cutting-edge"
productions. Hemingway made fun of her reputation for lesbian roles during a
1995 appearance on Saturday Night Live when she kissed new female cast members
during her opening monologue as host.
She has a perfume, "Mariel", by H2O+.
Name: Mariel Hemingway
Birth name: Mariel Hadley Hemingway
Born: 22 November 1961 Mill Valley, California
Mariel Hadley Hemingway (born November 22, 1961) is an Academy Award- and Golden
Globe-nominated American actress.
Hemingway was born in Mill Valley, California, the daughter of Byra Louise (née
Whittlesey) and Jack Hemingway, a writer. Her paternal grandfather was writer
Ernest Hemingway and her sister was Margaux Hemingway; she never met her
grandfather, as he died several months before she was born. She was named after
the Cuban port of Mariel - a village that her father and grandfather visited
regularly as sportsmen to fish. Her middle name was after her paternal
grandmother, Ernest's first wife Hadley Richardson. Hemingway grew up primarily
in Ketchum, Idaho, where her father lived, and where her paternal grandfather
also spent a great deal of time as a sportsman and writer. Mariel also spent
part of her adolescence growing up in New York and Los Angeles.
Hemingway's first role was with her sister Margaux in the 1976 film Lipstick.
The movie was not considered especially good, but Mariel did receive notice for
the quality of her acting, and she was nominated as "Best Newcomer" for the
Golden Globes Award that year. Hemingway's most famous role was in Woody Allen's
Manhattan, in which she plays Allen's high school lover. Only 17 at the time,
she was nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actress.
In the 1982 movie Personal Best, she played a bisexual athlete in a movie noted
for some explicit (by mainstream standards) lesbian love scenes. In connection
with Personal Best she appeared in a pictorial in the April 1982 issue of
Playboy, including the cover. In 1983, she starred as Dorothy Stratten in Star
80, a film about the Playboy model's life and murder. Reports circulated for
years that Hemingway had her breasts enlarged to play the role of Stratten, but
during a 2007 appearance on Fashionably Late with Stacy London, she said she had
the surgery before Star 80 came up. Her implants were removed years later after
they had ruptured. Hemingway was featured in newly discovered deleted footage,
which was shown in a very rough edit with unfinished visual effects, from
Superman IV: The Quest For Peace and was released on DVD in November 2006 as a
Deluxe Edition and as part of The Ultimate Superman Collection.
Hemingway has played a lesbian in several film or television shows, including
Personal Best, an infamous episode of the sitcom Roseanne in which she kissed
Roseanne Barr on the lips, and an episode of Crossing Jordan, but the actress is
not gay. Hemingway has said she formed a "big connection with the gay and
lesbian community" after Personal Best and enjoys taking roles in "cutting-edge"
productions. Hemingway made fun of her reputation for lesbian roles during a
1995 appearance on Saturday Night Live when she kissed new female cast members
during her opening monologue as host.
She has a perfume, "Mariel", by H2O+.