Mariel Hemingway

Mariel Hemingway is one of those people who had every reason to coast on a famous last name — Ernest Hemingway's granddaughter, no less — and instead quietly built a real career on her own terms. She broke out at fourteen in Lipstick, then turned in such a grounded, naturalistic performance opposite Woody Allen in Manhattan (1979) that she landed an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress at just seventeen. That's not legacy hype; that's actual ability. What I find genuinely compelling about her is how she's spent the decades since wrestling publicly with the darker side of that legendary family — mental illness, addiction, loss — and turning it into advocacy work on mental health and wellness rather than tabloid fodder. Actor, screenwriter, producer, and honest memoirist: she's done it her way, and the craft has always been the thing.

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Name (English)

Mariel Hemingway

Name (Japanese)

マリエル・ヘミングウェイ

Reading

まりえる・へみんぐうぇい

Born

November 22, 1961 (age 64)

Origin

Mill Valley, California, United States

Occupation

actor / film actor / television actor / screenwriter / film producer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Ox

University

Boston University

• Official sitehttps://www.marielhemingway.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariel%20Hemingway
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%98%E3%83%9F%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234101

Tags

• California
• actor
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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