Mary Woronov

Mary Woronov

actress, writer, director

Mary Woronov was born on Dec 08, 1943 in USA. Mary Woronov's big-screen debut came with Since directed by Andy Warhol in 1966. Mary Woronov is known for Heaven Wants Out directed by Robert Feinberg, Julian Cairol stars as Henry Stone and Edward Davis as Rufus. Mary Woronov has got 2 awards and 3 nominations so far. The most recent award Mary Woronov achieved is Los Angeles Silver Lake Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Mary Woronov plays is Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein which will be released on Jul 16, 2019.

Mary Woronov was born on December 8, 1943, at the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida. A surgeon's stepdaughter, she was raised in Brooklyn Heights and attended Cornell University as a sculpting major. After a class trip to Andy Warhol 's Silver Factory, she joined Warhol's entourage and starred in a number of his underground films and appeared as a go-go dancer in the Velvet Underground's Exploding Plastic Inevitable shows. She left the Factory in the late 1960s and, after recovering from a heavy methamphetamine addiction, spent two years in Europe with a friend; during this time, Warhol was shot by Valerie Solanas, and with the altered Factory dynamic, "there was nothing to go back to." She supported herself with work in off-Broadway and off-off- Broadway theater, then "got scared and got married" to director/producer Theodore Gershuny. She appeared in three of his films, Kemek (1970), Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972), and Les Pulpeuses (1973). After the marriage broke up, Woronov moved to Los Angeles at the invitation of friend Paul Bartel, where she appeared on the daytime soap Somerset (1970) and had a memorable role in Bartel's La course à la mort de l'an 2000 (1975). Her best and most famous role came in 1982, with the part of Mary Bland in Bartel's black comedy Eating Raoul (1982). A major cult figure as an actress, she is also an accomplished painter and writer, having published three books--Wake for the Angels: Paintings and Stories, the autobiography Swimming Underground: My Years in the Warhol Factory, and the novel Snake.

  • Birthday

    Dec 08, 1943
  • Place of Birth

    Palm Beach, Florida, USA
  • Also known

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Known For

Awards

2 wins & 3 nominations

Los Angeles Silver Lake Film Festival
2000
Winner - Spirit of Silver Lake Award
2000
Narrative Feature
Winner - Spirit of Silver Lake Award

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