Mariette Hartley is best known for work with Bill Bixby on The Incredible Hulk and Goodnight, Beantown, All Our Yesterdays an original Star Trek episode, Sam Peckinpah's Ride the High Country with Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea, and a series of commercials with James Garner in the 1970s and 1980s.
20 Facts About Mariette Hartley
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Mariette Hartley was born in Weston, Connecticut on June 21,1940, the daughter of Mary "Polly" Ickes, a manager and saleswoman, and Paul Hembree Mariette Hartley, an account executive.
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Mariette Hartley grew up in Weston, Connecticut, an affluent Fairfield County suburb within commuting distance to Manhattan.
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Mariette Hartley graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1965.
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Mariette Hartley began her career as a 13-year-old in the White Barn Theatre in Norwalk, Connecticut.
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Mariette Hartley graduated in 1957 from Staples High School in Westport, Connecticut, where she was an active member of the school's theater group, Staples Players.
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Mariette Hartley's first credited film appearance was alongside Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea in the 1962 Sam Peckinpah Western Ride the High Country; the role earned her a BAFTA award nomination.
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Mariette Hartley guest-starred in numerous TV series during the decade, with appearances in Gunsmoke, The Twilight Zone, The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, Death Valley Days, Judd, for the Defense, Bonanza, and Star Trek among others.
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Mariette Hartley portrays similar characters as a publisher's assistant in both episodes.
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In 1977, Mariette Hartley appeared in the TV movie The Last Hurrah, a political drama based on the Edwin O'Connor novel of the same name; and earned her first Emmy Award nomination.
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Mariette Hartley was nominated for the same award for her performance in an episode of The Rockford Files the following year.
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In 1983, Mariette Hartley reunited with Bixby in the sitcom Goodnight, Beantown, which ran for two seasons and brought her another Emmy Award nomination.
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In 2006, Mariette Hartley starred in her own one-woman show, If You Get to Bethlehem, You've Gone Too Far, which ran in Los Angeles.
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Mariette Hartley returned to the stage in 2014 as Eleanor of Aquitaine with Ian Buchanan's Henry in the Colony Theater Company production of James Goldman's The Lion in Winter.
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Between 2001 and 2006, Mariette Hartley endorsed the See Clearly Method, a commercial eye exercise program, whose sales were halted by an Iowa court after a finding of fraudulent business practices and advertising.
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Mariette Hartley received an honorary degree from Rider College in 1993.
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Mariette Hartley has spoken in public about her experience with bipolar disorder and was a founder of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
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In 2003, Mariette Hartley was hired by pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline to increase awareness of bipolar medications and treatments.
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Mariette Hartley frequently promotes awareness of bipolar disorder and suicide prevention.
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In 2009, Mariette Hartley spoke at a suicide and violence prevention forum about her father's suicide.