Mariel Hemingway

Mariel Hemingway (born November 22, 1961) is an American actress, author, and mental health activist. She made her film debut at age 14 with a Golden Globe Award-nominated part in Lipstick. For her performance in Woody Allen's Manhattan (1979), Hemingway received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Following a string of leading roles in Personal Best (1982), Star 80 (1983), The Mean Season, and Creator (both 1985), Hemingway received a further Golden Globe nomination for her portrayal of Sydney Guilford on the legal drama series Civil Wars (1991–1993). Her acting career slowed in the late 1990s, at which point she focused on advocating for mental health awareness. For producing and starring in the acclaimed documentary Running from Crazy (2013), which focused on her family's struggles with mental illness, Hemingway received a humanitarian award from the San Diego Film Festival.

Early life She is the daughter of Jack Hemingway and Byra Louise "Puck" Whittlesey. Her paternal grandparents were Ernest Hemingway and Hadley Richardson while Grace Hall Hemingway was her paternal great-grandmother.

Hemingway's sisters were Joan "Muffet" and Margot "Margaux"; the latter was a model and actress.

Mariel spent several years of her childhood in Sun Valley, Idaho living the life of a teenager unaffected by show business, doing odd jobs such as babysitting for local residents.

Career in film Hemingway's first role was with her real-life sister Margaux (also in her debut role) in the film Lipstick (1976), in which they played sisters. She received notice for her acting and was nominated as "Best Newcomer" for the Golden Globe Award that year. Her highest-profile role was in Woody Allen's Manhattan (1979), a romantic comedy in which she plays Tracy, a high school student and Allen's lover. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

In Personal Best (1982), she played a bisexual track-and-field athlete in a film noted for its same-sex love scenes. In connection with Personal Best, she appeared in a nude pictorial in the April 1982 issue of Playboy and was on the cover.

She starred as Dorothy Stratten in Star 80 (1983), 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 the late-night talk and variety show, Fashionably Late with Stacy London, she said she had had the surgery before Star 80. Her breast implants were removed years later after they had ruptured.

She was featured in Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) as Lacy Warfield. Subsequently released additional footage showed an expansion of her role. She starred in the 1991–93 legal drama Civil Wars for ABC, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe, and co-starred with musician, artist, and film director John Mellencamp in the critically acclaimed 1991 film Falling from Grace. She was cast as the female lead in Darren Star's CBS drama Central Park West for the 1995–96 season; however, the show fared poorly with both critics and viewers, and after 13 episodes Hemingway was told that the show wanted her to accept a deep pay cut and demotion to recurring character status. She quit the series, which only lasted eight more episodes before being cancelled. In 1996, she had a leading role in the British TV movie September, playing the wife of Michael York.

She has played a lesbian or bisexual woman in several films and television shows, including Personal Best, The Sex Monster, In Her Line of Fire, and episodes of the TV series Roseanne ("Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and "December Bride") and Crossing Jordan. Hemingway is heterosexual, but has said she formed a "big connection with the LGBT community" after Personal Best and enjoys taking roles in "cutting-edge" productions.

Hemingway has starred in and co-produced videos about yoga and holistic living. In 2002, she published a yoga memoir, Finding My Balance. She is currently the host of Spiritual Cinema, a monthly television show dedicated to spiritual films. She has begun hosting a series of yoga practice videos known as Yoga Now, with guru Rodney Yee.

Hemingway worked on the documentary film Running from Crazy, directed by Barbara Kopple and produced by the Oprah Winfrey Network chronicling the Hemingway family's history of suicide, substance abuse and mental illness, shown at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013. In October that year, Hemingway received a humanitarian award from the San Diego Film Festival for her role in the documentary. Her memoirs Invisible Girl and Out Came the Sun were released in 2015 by Regan Arts.

In 1996, her sister Margaux died of a barbiturate overdose at age 42. She was the fifth to die of suicide in four generations of Hemingways and her family had difficulty accepting the fact of her suicide.

In 2010, Hemingway wrote the foreword to yoga teacher Mark Stephens book Teaching Yoga, describing Stephens as a significant inspiration and teacher's teacher.

In early 2011, Hemingway began a relationship with former stuntman Bobby Williams with whom she has co-authored a self-help book. She practices Transcendental Meditation.

In the 2013 television documentary Running from Crazy, Hemingway talked of her bouts of mental illness and her still lingering issues with her siblings.

In her memoir, Out Came the Sun (2015), Hemingway discussed being propositioned by older men in Hollywood, including Bob Fosse, Robert De Niro, and Robert Towne. Woody Allen invited her on a trip to Paris, but she realized that he did not intend them to have separate rooms. Though she declined his advances, she states she continued to "love him as a friend" and was grateful that they stayed in touch in later years.

Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes 1976 Lipstick Kathy McCormick Nominated—Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress 1979 Manhattan Tracy Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting ActressNominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role 1982 Personal Best Chris Cahill 1983 Star 80 Dorothy Stratten 1985 The Mean Season Christine Connelly Creator Meli 1987 Superman IV: The Quest for Peace Lacy Warfield Nominated—Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress The Suicide Club Sasha Michaels Also producer 1988 Sunset Cheryl King Nominated—Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress 1990 Fire, Ice and Dynamite Herself Uncredited 1991 Delirious Janet Dubois/Louise 1992 Falling from Grace Alice Parks 1994 Naked Gun : The Final Insult Herself Uncredited 1995 Deceptions II: Edge of Deception Joan Branson 1996 Bad Moon Janet Harrison 1997 Deconstructing Harry Beth Kramer Road Ends Kat 1998 Little Men Josephine "Jo" March Baer 1999 Kiss of a Stranger Nova Clarke The Sex Monster Laura Barnes 2000 The Contender Cynthia Charlton Lee 2001 Perfume Lesse Hotton Fourplay Carly Matthews Portland 2003 American Reel Disney Rifkin 2005 Time of Change Mariel 2006 In Her Line of Fire Lynn Delaney 2007 Nanking Minnie Vautrin Greetings from Earth Helen Short film 2008 The Golden Boys Martha Snow 2009 Archie's Final Project Charlotte Silver 2010 Ay Lav Yu Pamela 2013 Man Camp Aunt Chelsea 2014 Unity Narrator Documentary Lap Dance Aunt Billie 2015 Papa: Hemingway in Cuba Woman Guest 2019 The Wall of Mexico Mayor Ann Mason 2021 Grace and Grit Chris 2022 On Sacred Ground Marion

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