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Mariel Hadley Hemingway (born November 22, 1961 in Mill Valley, California, USA) is an American actress. She is the granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway and sister of Margaux Hemingway.

Mariel Hemingway grew up primarily in Ketchum, Idaho, where her father Jack Hemingway had a farm and where her grandfather Ernest Hemingway also spent a great deal of time as a sportsman and writer. Ernest and Margaux Hemingway are both buried in the Ketchum cemetery.

In addition to Ketchum, Mariel spent part of her adolescence growing up in New York and Los Angeles.

Her first role was with her sister Margaux in the 1976 film Lipstick. The movie was not considered especially good, but Mariel did receive notice for the quality of her acting, and she was nominated as "Best Newcomer" for the Golden Globes Award that year.

Hemingway's most famous role was probably Tracy in Woody Allen's Manhattan, in which she plays the high school lover of Isaac (Woody Allen). Only seventeen at the time, she was nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actress.

In 1983, she starred as Dorothy Stratten in Star 80, a film about the Playboy star's life and murder. For that role, Hemingway had her breasts enlarged, but she had the implants removed in 2001 after one of them ruptured. In the 1982 movie Personal Best, she played a bisexual athlete in a movie noted for some explicit (by mainstream standards) lesbian love scenes.

The fact that Mariel Hemingway starred in film or television shows (including an infamous episode of the sitcom Roseanne in which she kissed Roseanne Barr on the lips and an episode of Crossing Jordan on November 18, 2002) in which she was featured as a lesbian or had lesbian scenes has led to some speculation as to whether she is herself a lesbian. This rumor is not true, though, as Hemingway is chosen for these roles more for her striking appearance as an athletic 6'1" tall woman with the trademark square jaw of the Hemingways. In fact, Hemingway herself made fun of her lesbian persona in her monologue on Saturday Night Live during the September 30, 1995 episode that she hosted where she kisses the new female castmembers while giving viewers a tour behind the scenes of Studio 8-H.

In reality, Hemingway has been married since December 9, 1984 to writer and director Stephen Crisman, and they have two daughters: Dree (b. 1987) and Langley (b. 1989).

Trivia

She was named after the Cuban port of (Mariel, Cuba) - a village that her father and grandfather visited regularly as sportsmen to fish. Mariel is also the location of an organised mass exodus of Cubans in 1980.

Joe names Mariel as his perfect woman in the episode of family guy 'a fish out of water'

Her middle name is after her grandmother Elizabeth Hadley Richardson Hemingway.

She has a perfume "Mariel" by H₂O+.

Abridged Filmography

• In Her Line of Fire (2006) ... as Lynn Delanney
• The Contender (2000) ... as Cynthia Charlton Lee
• The Sex Monster (1999) ... as Laura Barnes
• Deconstructing Harry (1997) ... as Beth Kramer
• Bad Moon (1996) ... as Janet
• Sunset (1988) ... as Cheryl King
• Superman IV: The Quest For Peace (1987) ... as Lacy Warfield
• Amerika (1987) ... as Kimberly Ballard
• [[The Mean Season (film) (1985)...as Christine Connelly
• Creator (1985) ... as Meli
• Star 80 (1983) ... as Dorothy Stratten
• Personal Best (1982) ... as Chris Cahill
• Manhattan (1979) ... as Tracy

See also

• List of famous tall women

External links

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