1. Vittoria Marisa Schiaparelli Berenson was born on February 15,1947 and is an American actress and former model.
16 Facts About Marisa Berenson
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Marisa Berenson appeared on the front covers of Vogue and Time, and won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Natalia Landauer in the 1972 film Cabaret.
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Marisa Berenson's father, Robert Lawrence Berenson, was an American career diplomat turned shipping executive of Russian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent, and his family's original surname was Valvrojenski.
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Marisa Berenson's mother was Maria-Luisa Yvonne "Gogo" Radha de Wendt Schiaparelli, a socialite of Italian, Swiss and French descent.
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Berry Marisa Berenson died on September 11,2001 in New York City.
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Marisa Berenson is a great-grandniece of Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer who was the first to describe the canals of Mars, and a second cousin, once removed, of art expert Bernard Berenson and his sister Senda Berenson, an athlete and educator who was one of the first two women elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
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Marisa Berenson appeared on the cover of the July 1970 issue of Vogue as well as the cover of Time on December 15,1975.
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Marisa Berenson appeared in numerous fashion layouts in Vogue in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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Marisa Berenson was known as "The Queen of the Scene" for her frequent appearances at nightclubs and other social venues in her youth, and Yves Saint Laurent dubbed her "the girl of the Seventies".
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Marisa Berenson portrayed the tragic beauty Lady Lyndon in the Stanley Kubrick film Barry Lyndon.
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Marisa Berenson was a perfectionist, but every great director I've worked with has been a perfectionist.
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Marisa Berenson guest-starred in an episode of The Muppet Show during its third season in 1978.
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Marisa Berenson made her Broadway debut in the 2001 revival of Design for Living, which starred Jennifer Ehle, Alan Cumming, and Dominic West.
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Marisa Berenson is chairman of the board of Culture Project, an organization that sponsors the theater.
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Marisa Berenson was in an airplane during the terrorist attacks, flying from Paris to New York.
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Marisa Berenson later abandoned vegetarianism and returned to eating meat.