23 Facts About Mariel Hemingway

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Mariel Hadley Hemingway was born on November 22,1961 and is an American actress.

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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 is known for her 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 has starred in and co-produced videos about yoga and holistic living.

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Mariel Hemingway published a yoga memoir, Finding My Balance, in 2002, and a more general memoir, Out Came the Sun, in 2015.

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Mariel Hemingway was born in Mill Valley, California, the third daughter of Byra Louise and Jack Mariel Hemingway, a writer.

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Mariel Hemingway's sisters are Joan "Muffet" and Margot "Margaux", the latter of whom became a model and actress.

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Mariel Hemingway grew up primarily in Ketchum, Idaho, where her father lived, and where Ernest had spent time as a sportsman and writer.

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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 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 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 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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In October 2013, Mariel Hemingway received a humanitarian award from the San Diego Film Festival for her role in the documentary.

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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 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.