Mary Stuart Masterson





























Mary Stuart Masterson

Mary Stuart Masterson at Tribeca 2007 cropped 2.jpg
Masterson at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival

Born
(1966-06-28) June 28, 1966 (age 52)

New York City, U.S.

Occupation Actress, director
Years active 1975–present
Spouse(s)
George Carl Francisco
(m. 1990; div. 1992)



Damon Santostefano
(m. 2000; div. 2004)



Jeremy Davidson
(m. 2006)

Children 3

Mary Stuart Masterson (born June 28, 1966) is an American actress. She has starred in the films At Close Range (1986), Some Kind of Wonderful (1987), Chances Are (1989), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) and Benny & Joon (1993). She won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the 1989 film Immediate Family, and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for the 2003 Broadway revival of Nine.




Contents






  • 1 Early life and education


  • 2 Career


    • 2.1 1990s


    • 2.2 2000s


    • 2.3 Directing




  • 3 Personal life


  • 4 Filmography


    • 4.1 Film


    • 4.2 As director


    • 4.3 Television




  • 5 Awards and nominations


  • 6 References


  • 7 External links





Early life and education


Masterson was born in Manhattan, the daughter of writer-director-actor-producer Peter Masterson and singer-actress Carlin Glynn. She has two siblings: Peter Jr., and Alexandra. As a teen, she attended Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center in upstate New York with actors Robert Downey Jr. and Jon Cryer. Later, she attended schools in New York, including eight months studying anthropology at New York University.[1]



Career


Masterson's first film appearance was in The Stepford Wives (1975) at the age of eight, playing a daughter to her real-life father. Rather than continue her career as a child actor, she chose to continue her studies, although she did appear in several productions at the Dalton School. In 1985, she returned to cinema in Heaven Help Us as Danni, a courageous teen running the soda shop of her gravely depressed Dad. She appeared with Sean Penn and Christopher Walken in the film At Close Range (1986) as Brad Jr's girlfriend Terry, a film based on an actual rural Pennsylvania crime family led by Bruce Johnston, Sr. during the 1960s and 1970s. She later starred as the tomboyish drummer Watts in the teenage drama Some Kind of Wonderful (1987). As a result, she is loosely connected with the Brat Pack.[2] The same year Francis Ford Coppola cast her in Gardens of Stone in which she acted with her parents, hired by Coppola to play her on-screen parents.[3] In 1989, she played in Chances Are alongside Cybill Shepherd, Ryan O'Neal and Robert Downey Jr., and she starred as Lucy Moore, a teenage girl giving up her first baby to a wealthy couple, played by Glenn Close and James Woods in Immediate Family. For her work in that film she received a "Best Supporting Actress" award from the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.



1990s


Masterson continued acting in both films and television during the 1990s. In 1991, she starred in Fried Green Tomatoes, a film based on the novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. The film was well-received, with film critic Roger Ebert applauding Masterson's work.[4] The following year she was invited to host Saturday Night Live. In 1993, she played opposite Johnny Depp in Benny & Joon as Joon, his mentally ill love interest. In 1994, she acted in Bad Girls, playing Anita Crown, a former prostitute, who joins with three other former prostitutes (played by Madeleine Stowe, Andie MacDowell and Drew Barrymore) in traveling the Old West. In 1996, Masterson acted alongside Christian Slater in the romantic drama Bed of Roses.



2000s


Although Masterson carried on her work in the film industry, by 2000 she had made a move towards television. In 2001, she produced her own television series, Kate Brasher, which was canceled by CBS after six episodes. In 2004, Masterson starred in the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning HBO biographical drama Something the Lord Made. Between 2004 and 2007, she made five guest starring appearances on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Dr. Rebecca Hendrix. A decade later, she appeared in a recurring role as FBI director Eleanor Hirst in the second and third seasons of Blindspot.


Masterson has appeared in Broadway theatre productions, and was nominated for a 2003 Tony Award as "Best Featured Actress in a Musical" in the Maury Yeston musical Nine: The Musical, directed by David Leveaux.[5]


Masterson has narrated several audiobooks, including I See You Everywhere by Julia Glass, Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell, The Quickie by James Patterson and Look Again by Lisa Scottoline.[citation needed]



Directing


By May 1993, Masterson revealed she had written a screenplay for a film tentatively entitled Around the Block, a romantic comedy about a "woman who conquers her fears by becoming a singer"; in a cover story about Benny & Joon's box office success, she told Entertainment Weekly she was going to direct it herself, with principal photography expected that autumn.[6]


In 2001, she began her directing career with a segment titled "The Other Side" in the television movie On the Edge.[7]


Masterson made her feature film directorial debut in 2007, with The Cake Eaters, which premiered at the Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival as well as the Ashland Independent Film Festival where it received the 'Audience Award – Dramatic Feature' prize in 2008.[8] Of her move to directing, Masterson said in an interview, "When I signed to do this, I wasn't scared but, yes, it was scary. I'm already 40, although we don't want to talk about that. In '92, I wrote my first screenplay, which I then was to direct, but I ended up taking an acting job because it takes forever to get a movie made."[9]



Personal life


Masterson was married to filmmaker Damon Santostefano from 2000 to 2004. In 2006, Masterson married actor Jeremy Davidson (born Jeremy Michael Greenberg) after starring together in the 2004 stage production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Masterson gave birth to their first child, a son named Phineas Bee Greenberg, on October 11, 2009.[10][11] She gave birth to twins in August 2011, son Wilder Greenberg and daughter Clio Greenberg.[12]



Filmography



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Year
Title
Role
Notes
1975

The Stepford Wives
Kim Eberhart

1985

Heaven Help Us
Danni

1986

At Close Range
Terry

1987

Some Kind of Wonderful
Watts


Gardens of Stone
Rachel Feld


My Little Girl
Franny Bettinger

1988

Mr. North
Elspeth Skeel

1989

Chances Are
Miranda Jeffries


Immediate Family
Lucy Moore

1990

Funny About Love
Daphne Delillo

1991

Fried Green Tomatoes
Imogene "Idgie" Threadgoode

1992

Mad at the Moon
Jenny Hill

1993

Married to It
Nina Bishop


Benny & Joon
Juniper "Joon" Pearl

1994

Bad Girls
Anita Crown


Radioland Murders
Penny Henderson

1996

Bed of Roses
Lisa Walker


Heaven's Prisoners
Robin Gaddis

1997

Dogtown
Dorothy Sternen


The Postman
Hope, Postman's Daughter
Uncredited Cameo
1998

Digging to China
Gwen Frankovitz

1999

The Book of Stars
Penny McGuire


The Florentine
Vikki

2002

West of Here
Genevieve Anderson


Leo
Brynne

2005

The Sisters
Olga Prior


Whiskey School
G.G.

2006

The Insurgents
Director

2017

As You Are
Karen

2018

Skin
Agent Jackie Marks

Post-production


As director


















Year
Title
Notes
2001

On the Edge
Television film
Segment: "The Other Side"
2007

The Cake Eaters
Feature film


Television











































































































































Year
Title
Role
Notes
1980

City in Fear
Abby Crawford

ABC television film
1985

Love Lives On
Susan Wallace
ABC television film
1986

Amazing Stories
Cynthia Simpson
Segment: "Go to the Head of the Class (Book Two)"
1992

Saturday Night Live
Herself / Host
Episode: "Mary Stuart Masterson/En Vogue"
1996

Lily Dale
Lily Dale

Showtime television film
1997

On the 2nd Day of Christmas
Patricia "Trish" Tracy

Lifetime Television television film
1999

Black and Blue
Frances Benedetto

CBS television film
2001

Kate Brasher
Kate Brasher
6 episodes

Three Blind Mice
Patricia Demming
CBS television film
2002

R.U.S./H.
Elaine Burba
Unsold CBS pilot
2003

Gary the Rat
Caroline Swanson
Voice role
Episode: "Old Flame"
2004

Blue's Clues

Cinderella
Episode: "Love Day"

Something the Lord Made
Dr. Helen Taussig

HBO television film
2004–2007

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Dr. Rebecca Hendrix
5 episodes
2006

Waterfront
Heather Centrella
5 episodes
2009

Cupid
Mira
Episode: "Live and Let Spy"
2010

Mercy
Dr. Denise Cabe
4 episodes
2012

Touch
Beth Cooper
Episode: "The Road Not Taken"
2013

The Good Wife
Rachel Keyser
Episode: "Whack-a-Mole"
2015

Blue Bloods
Catherine Tucker
Episode: "Absolute Power"
2017

NCIS
Congresswoman Jenna Flemming
3 episodes
2017–2018

Blindspot
FBI Director Eleanor Hirst
10 episodes


Awards and nominations


Ashland Independent Film Festival


  • 2008: Won, "Best Dramatic Feature" – The Cake Eaters

DVD Exclusive Awards


  • 2001: Nominated, "Best Actress" – The Book of Stars

Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival


  • 2007: Won, "Best American Indie" – The Cake Eaters

Lone Star Film & Television Awards


  • 1997: Won, "Best TV Actress" – Lily Dale

MTV Movie Awards


  • 1994: Nominated, "Best On-Screen Duo" – Benny and Joon (shared w/Johnny Depp)

National Board of Review of Motion Pictures


  • 1989: Won, "Best Supporting Actress" – Immediate Family

Satellite Awards


  • 2005: Nominated, "Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television" – Something the Lord Made


References





  1. ^ Mary Stuart Masterson profile, The New York Times; accessed May 20, 2014.


  2. ^ Jamie Currie. "Possibly Pack". thebratpacksite.com. Retrieved July 31, 2015..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  3. ^ "Yahoo TV". yahoo.com. Retrieved July 31, 2015.


  4. ^ Roger Ebert (January 10, 1992). "Fried Green Tomatoes". suntimes.com. Retrieved July 31, 2015.


  5. ^ "The 2003 Tony Award nominations". latimes. May 13, 2003. Retrieved July 31, 2015.


  6. ^ Murphy, Ryan (May 7, 1993). "A Perfect Mismatch". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved September 29, 2011. Because there aren't enough good parts to go around, Masterson has written her own. In Around the Block, an independent production she'll also direct this fall, she plays a woman who conquers her fears by becoming a singer. 'It's a romantic comedy too,' she says proudly. 'Who knows? Maybe it will become a big date movie. If I'm lucky.'


  7. ^ "Movies directed by Mary Stuart Masterson". IMDb. Retrieved 2018-08-07.


  8. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Retrieved 2013-11-15.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)


  9. ^ Actress Goes In Film Direction – New York Post Archived May 3, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.


  10. ^ Joyce Eng (November 3, 2009). "Mary Stuart Masterson Welcomes a Son". TV Guide.


  11. ^ Michael Nassberg. "Local filmmaker to screen his film, "Tickling Leo," Nov. 22". The Reporter Group.


  12. ^ "Breaking Celeb News, Entertainment News, and Celebrity Gossip". E! Online. Retrieved July 31, 2015.




External links








  • Mary Stuart Masterson on IMDb


  • Mary Stuart Masterson at AllMovie


  • Mary Stuart Masterson at the Internet Broadway Database


  • Mary Stuart Masterson at the Internet Off-Broadway Database










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