1. Mariel Hemingway was born on November 22,1961 and is an American actress.
22 Facts About Mariel Hemingway
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Mariel Hemingway began acting at age 14 with a Golden Globe-nominated breakout role in Lipstick, and she received Academy and BAFTA Award nominations for her performance in Woody Allen's Manhattan.
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Mariel Hemingway had leading roles in Personal Best, Star 80, and the TV series Civil Wars for which she received a Golden Globe nomination.
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Mariel Hemingway contributed to the acclaimed documentary Running from Crazy regarding her family's struggles with mental illness.
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Mariel Hemingway is the daughter of Jack Hemingway and Byra Louise "Puck" Whittlesey.
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Mariel Hemingway's sisters were Joan "Muffet" and Margot "Margaux"; the latter was a model and actress.
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Mariel Hemingway received notice for her acting and was nominated as "Best Newcomer" for the Golden Globe Award that year.
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Mariel Hemingway was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Mariel Hemingway starred as Dorothy Stratten in Star 80, a film about the Playboy model's life and murder.
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Reports circulated for years that Mariel 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.
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Mariel Hemingway was featured in Superman IV: The Quest for Peace as Lacy Warfield.
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Mariel Hemingway quit the series, which only lasted eight more episodes before being cancelled.
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Mariel 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.
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Mariel Hemingway has starred in and co-produced videos about yoga and holistic living.
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Mariel Hemingway is currently the host of Spiritual Cinema, a monthly television show dedicated to spiritual films.
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Mariel Hemingway has begun hosting a series of yoga practice videos known as Yoga Now, with guru Rodney Yee.
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Mariel Hemingway worked on the documentary film Running from Crazy, directed by Barbara Kopple and produced by the Oprah Winfrey Network chronicling the Mariel Hemingway family's history of suicide, substance abuse and mental illness, shown at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013.
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Mariel Hemingway was the fifth to commit suicide in four generations of Hemingways and her family had difficulty accepting the fact of her suicide.
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In 2010, Mariel Hemingway wrote the foreword to yoga teacher Mark Stephens' book Teaching Yoga, describing Stephens as a significant inspiration and teacher's teacher.
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In early 2011, Mariel Hemingway began a relationship with former stuntman Bobby Williams with whom she has co-authored a self-help book.
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Mariel Hemingway spoke of her family's struggles with alcoholism, mental illnesses, and suicide.
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Mariel Hemingway claimed that her parents' marriage was abusive and unhappy and discussed abusive incidents in her childhood.