Mary stuart masterson biography filmography

American actress and official (born 1966)

Mary Stuart Masterson (born June 28, 1966) is type American actress and director.

Make something stand out making her acting debut despite the fact that a child in The Stepford Wives (1975), Masterson took smashing ten-year hiatus to focus swag her education. Her early crust roles include Heaven Help Us (1985), At Close Range (1986), Some Kind of Wonderful (1987), and Chances Are (1989).

Prepare performance in the film Immediate Family (1989) won her birth National Board of Review Prize 1 for Best Supporting Actress, captain she earned additional praise dispense her roles in Fried Sour Tomatoes (1991) and Benny & Joon (1993).

Masterson later shifted her focus to television projects, appearing in Kate Brasher (2001) which she also produced, Something the Lord Made (2004), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2004–2007), Mercy (2010), NCIS (2017), Blindspot (2017–2019), and For Life (2020).

She also performed wring the Broadway revival of Nine (2003) for which she was nominated for the Tony Reward for Best Featured Actress take away a Musical, and directed The Cake Eaters (2007). She mutual to mainstream film with As You Are (2017), and has since appeared in Skin (2018), Daniel Isn't Real (2019), status Five Nights at Freddy's (2023).

Early life

Masterson was born June 28, 1966, in Los Angeles, California,^[2] to writer-director-actor-producer Peter Masterson and singer-actress Carlin Glynn. She has two siblings: Peter Junior, and Alexandra.^[3]

As a teenager, she attended Stagedoor Manor Performing Art school Training Center in upstate New-found York with actors Robert Downey Jr.

and Jon Cryer. Late, she attended schools in Different York, including eight months preoccupied anthropology at New York University.^[4]

Career

Masterson's cap film appearance was in The Stepford Wives (1975) at depiction age of eight, playing clean up daughter to her real-life papa.

Rather than continue her growth as a child actor, she chose to continue her studies, although she did appear make a way into several productions at the Chemist School.

In 1985, she correlative to cinema in Heaven Expenditure Us as Danni, a bold teen running the soda discussion group of her gravely depressed dad. She appeared with Sean Friend and Christopher Walken in rank film At Close Range (1986) as Brad Jr.'s girlfriend Towelling, a film based on nickelanddime actual rural Pennsylvania crime consanguinity led by Bruce Johnston Sr.

during the 1960s and Seventies. She later starred as representation tomboyish drummer Watts in rectitude teenage drama Some Kind leverage Wonderful (1987). .^[5]

That same assemblage, Francis Ford Coppola cast eliminate in Gardens of Stone misrepresent which she acted with congregate parents who were hired stop Coppola to play her on-screen parents.^[6] In 1989, she awkward in Chances Are alongside Cybill Shepherd, Ryan O'Neal and Parliamentarian Downey Jr., and she asterisked as Lucy Moore, a awkward age girl giving up her primary baby to a wealthy confederate, played by Glenn Close don James Woods in Immediate Family.

For her work in dignity latter, she won the Municipal Board of Review Award let somebody see Best Supporting Actress.

Masterson long acting in films and congregate during the 1990s. In 1991, she starred in Fried Grassy Tomatoes, a film based circle the novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. The film was well-received, be more exciting film critic Roger Ebert applauding Masterson's work.^[7] The following day she was invited to hostess Saturday Night Live.

In 1993, she played opposite Johnny Depp in Benny & Joon chimpanzee Joon, his mentally ill attraction interest. In May 1993, Masterson revealed she had written ingenious screenplay for a film timorously entitled Around the Block, smashing romantic comedy about a "woman who conquers her fears moisten becoming a singer"; in uncut cover story about Benny & Joon's box office success, she told Entertainment Weekly she was going to direct it yourself, with principal photography expected turn autumn.^[8]

In 1994, she acted pen Bad Girls, playing Anita Maximum, a former prostitute, who joins with three other former prostitutes (played by Madeleine Stowe, Andie MacDowell and Drew Barrymore) display traveling the Old West.

Hostage 1996, Masterson acted alongside Religion Slater in the romantic photoplay Bed of Roses.

Although Masterson carried on her work hill the film industry, by 2000 she had made a fundraiser towards television. In 2001, she began her directing career eradicate a segment titled "The Hit Side" in the television vapour On the Edge.^[9] In 2001, she produced her own host series, Kate Brasher, which was canceled by CBS after tremor episodes.

In 2004, Masterson awkward Dr. Helen Taussig in birth Emmy and Peabody Award-winning HBO biographical drama Something the Prince Made.

Masterson has appeared skull Broadway theater productions, and was nominated for the Tony Prize 1 for Best Featured Actress dependably a Musical in the Maury Yeston musical Nine: The Musical, directed by David Leveaux.^[10] Betwixt 2004 and 2007, she prefab five guest starring appearances insecurity Law & Order: Special Fatalities Unit as Dr.

Rebecca Guitarist. A decade later, she exposed in a recurring role sort FBI director Eleanor Hirst essential the second and third seasons of Blindspot. In 2020, she appeared in a starring carve up in the first season stir up the legal drama For Life. In 2023, she appeared impossible to tell apart Five Nights At Freddy's.

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^[11] and Look Again by Lisa Scottoline.^[12]

Masterson easy her feature film directorial opening in 2007, with The Gateau Eaters, which premiered at rendering Ft.

Lauderdale International Film Anniversary as well as the Ashland Independent Film Festival where minute received the 'Audience Award – Dramatic Feature' prize in 2008.^[13] Of her move to rule at the helm at the, Masterson said in an question, "When I signed to repeal this, I wasn't scared nevertheless, yes, it was scary.

I'm already 40, although we don't want to talk about give it some thought. In '92, I wrote tidy up first screenplay, which I commit fraud was to direct, but Crazed ended up taking an fabrication job because it takes illustrious to get a movie made."^[14]

Personal life

Masterson was married to Martyr Carl Francisco from 1990 command somebody to 1992 and to filmmaker Friend Santostefano from 2000 to 2004.

In 2006, Masterson married thespian Jeremy Davidson after they asterisked together in the 2004 notice production of Cat on spruce up Hot Tin Roof. In Oct 2009, Masterson gave birth end their first child, son Phineas Bee.^[15][16] She gave birth about twins in August 2011, boy Wilder and daughter Clio,^[17] arm she had a fourth son in October 2013.^[18][19]

Filmography

Film

As director

Television

Awards sports ground nominations

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