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| Birth Name(s) : Marisa Berenson |
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Full Marisa Berenson Biography
Marisa Berenson (born February 15, 1946 in New York City, New York) is an American actress and model.
Marisa Berenson is the elder daughter of Robert L. Berenson, an American diplomat turned shipping executive, who was of Lithuanian Jewish descent; his family's original surname was Valvrojenski. Her mother was born Countess Maria Luisa Yvonne Radha de Wendt de Kerlor, better known as Gogo Schiaparelli, a socialite of Italian, Swiss, French, and Egyptian ancestry.
Berenson's maternal grandmother was the fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, and her maternal grandfather was Count Wilhelm de Wendt de Kerlor, a Theosophist and psychic medium. Her younger sister, Berinthia, became the model, actress, and photographer Berry Berenson. She also is a great-grand-niece of Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer who believed he had discovered the supposed canals of Mars, a great-grand-niece of art expert Bernard Berenson (1865 – 1959), and his sister Senda Berenson (1868 – 1954), an athlete and educator who was one of the first two women elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
Eventually she was cast in several prominent film roles, including Frau von Aschenbach in Luchino Visconti's 1971 film Death in Venice, the Jewish department store heiress Natalia Landauer in the 1972 film Cabaret, and the tragic beauty Lady Lyndon in the 1975 Stanley Kubrick film Barry Lyndon. Though the last role has been her most well known, the reviews of her performance were lackluster; Vincent Canby of The New York Times merely stated, "Marisa Berenson splendidly suits her costumes and wigs."
Berenson has appeared in a number of other movies, most of them filmed in Europe, as well as in made-for-TV movies in the United States, such as the Holocaust-themed drama Playing for Time (1980).
Her second husband was Aaron Richard Golub, a lawyer, whom she married in 1982 and divorced in 1987. In the divorce proceedings, the judge ruled that "the increased value of Ms. Berenson's acting and modeling career were marital property" and therefore subject to consideration in any settlement agreements.
"I hope she didn't suffer. It's hard to take in. I have hope and tremendous faith. I think that's what gets you through life...through tragedies is when you have faith." Marisa Berenson on the death of her sister Berry Berenson in the Sept. 11th attacks. |
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