1. Mary Harron was born on January 12,1953 and is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.
22 Facts About Mary Harron
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Mary Harron co-wrote the screenplay and directed American Psycho, The Notorious Bettie Page, and I Shot Andy Warhol.
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Mary Harron is the daughter of Gloria Fisher and Don Harron, a Canadian actor, comedian, author, and director.
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Mary Harron's parents divorced when she was six years old.
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Mary Harron spent her early life residing between Toronto and Los Angeles.
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Mary Harron moved to England when she was thirteen and later attended St Anne's College, Oxford University, where she received a Bachelors in English.
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Mary Harron then moved to New York City and was part of its 1970s punk scene.
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Mary Harron was exposed to noir films, namely Double Indemnity.
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Mary Harron grew up in the early punk scene of America.
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Mary Harron found the culture easy for her to fit into and was constantly evolving and spreading into new demographics.
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Mary Harron suggested making a documentary about Solanas to her producers, who in turn encouraged her to develop the project into what would be her first feature film.
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Mary Harron says she owes her success with her first film to Andy who helped to sell the controversial focus on the attempted murderess, Solanas.
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When returning to work with co-writer Guinevere Turner, Mary Harron felt they were best suited for the job of American Psycho as they needed no hesitation on feminist values, especially after Turner's successful lesbian film Go Fish.
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Mary Harron did what she wanted to do and she wasn't just doing it for men.
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Mary Harron was kind of in her own world of dress-up.
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Mary Harron has described the film as a "gothic coming-of-age story" that explores the nuanced friendships of teenage girls as they are repeatedly confronted with the prospect of adulthood.
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Mary Harron directed the 2018 independent film Charlie Says, with a screenplay by Turner, which tells the real-life story of how three of Charles Manson's female followers came to terms with the magnitude of their crimes while incarcerated in the 1970s.
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Mary Harron stated that she was fascinated by the psychological aspects of how the women ended up committing murder as a result of both manipulation by Manson and feelings of solidarity with one another.
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Mary Harron has worked in television, directing episodes of Oz, Six Feet Under, Homicide: Life on the Street, The L Word and Big Love.
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Mary Harron has been at times labelled a feminist filmmaker, in part due to her film on lesbian feminist Valerie Solanas, I Shot Andy Warhol, as well as a lesbian storyline within her 2011 teenage Gothic horror film The Moth Diaries.
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Mary Harron has consistently denied this label, although she considers herself a feminist.
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Mary Harron is a member of Film Fatales, a women's independent filmmaker collective.