Mariette Hartley
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Mary Loretta "Mariette" Hartley (born June 21, 1940) is an American Emmy Award winning character actress, and a founder of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
Early life
Hartley was born in Weston, Connecticut on June 21, 1940, the daughter of Mary "Polly" Ickes (née Watson), a manager and saleswoman, and Paul Hembree Hartley, an account executive. Her maternal grandfather was John B. Watson, an American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism. She grew up in Weston, Connecticut, an affluent Fairfield County suburb within commuting distance to Manhattan.
She graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1965.
Personal life
Hartley has been married three times. Her first marriage was to John Seventa (1960–1962). She married Patrick Boyriven on August 13, 1978, with whom she had two children, Sean (born 1975) and Justine (born 1978). The couple divorced in 1996. In 2005, Hartley married Jerry Sroka.
In her 1990 autobiography Breaking the Silence, written with Anne Commire, Hartley talked about her struggles with psychological problems, pointing directly to her grandfather's (Dr. Watson) practical application of his theories as the source of the dysfunction in his family. She has also spoken in public about her experience with bipolar disorder and was a founder of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. She currently serves as the foundation's national spokesperson.
In 2003, Hartley was hired by pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline to increase awareness of bipolar medications and treatments. She frequently promotes awareness of bipolar disorder and suicide prevention.
Her brother, Paul Hartley, has a PhD in research philosophy and is the author of the book The Seventh Tool: a novel in 3 volumes (2013).
In 2009, Hartley spoke at a suicide and violence prevention forum about her father's suicide.
Career
Hartley began her career as a 13-year-old in Norwalk, Connecticut, in the White Barn Theatre. Eva Le Gallienne, a teenager who was trained and mentored by her mother, was taught and mentored by her mother as a stage actress in her teens. She graduated from Staples High School in Westport, Connecticut, where she was a member of the school's theater troupe, Staples Players. Hartley has appeared at the American Shakespeare Festival as a performer.
Dorothy Hopper's career began with an uncredited cameo appearance in From Hell to Texas (1958), a Western. She migrated to Los Angeles and joined the UCLA Theater Group in the early 1960s.
Hartley's first credited film appearance was alongside Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea in the 1962 Sam Peckinpah Western Ride the High Country, earning her a BAFTA award nomination. She continued to appear in film during the 1960s, including lead roles in Alfred Hitchcock's adventure Drums of Africa (1963), as well as supporting roles in the John Sturges' psychological thriller Marooned (1969).
Hartley appeared in many television series over the years, including appearances in Gunsmoke, The Long Morrow), The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, and Star Trek's "All Our Yesterdays," among others. Claire Morton, a 1965 actress, appeared in 32 episodes of Peyton Place as Dr. Claire Morton.
Hartley continued to appear in film and television during the 1970s, including two Westerns alongside Lee Van Cleef (1970) and The Magnificent Seven Ride (1972), and a television series starring Ruth Gordon (1977). In both episodes, Hartley portrays similar characters as a publisher's assistant.
Hartley appeared in the television film The Last Hurrah, a political drama based on the Edwin O'Connor novel of the same name, in 1977, and she received her first Emmy Award nomination.
In 1978 episode of the television series "The Incredible Hulk," Carolyn Fields' role as psychologist, and entrepreneur Bill Bixby's portrayal of the Hulk gave Hartley the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. The following year, she was nominated for the same award for her role in an episode of The Rockford Files.
Hartley reunited with Bixby in the sitcom Goodnight, Beantown, which lasted for two seasons and earned her another Emmy Award nomination. (She appeared in Bixby's 1992 television film A Diagnosis of Murder, the first of three TV movies to debut the series Diagnosis: Murder).
She co-hosted CBS's The Morning Program weekday morning news show with Rolland Smith for ten months in 1987.
Hartley appeared in the revival of the mystery play Deathtrap in the 1990s with Elliott Gould and Doug Wert. During the 1990s and 2000s, numerous actresses and guest appearances in TV shows, including Murder, She Wrote (1992), Nash Bridges (2000), and NCIS (2005). She appeared on television programs as Sister Mary Daniel (1999-2001; ten episodes), and as Lorna Scarry in six episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2003-2011).
Wild About Animals, a children's television documentary series, ran from 1995 to 2015.
Hartley appeared in her own one-woman performance If You Make It to Bethlehem, You've Gone Too Far, which ran in Los Angeles in 2006. Eleanor of Aquitaine with Ian Buchanan's Henry was back on stage in 2014 as The Lion of James Goldman's In the Colony Theater Company's production of James Goldman's The Lion in Winter, she appeared in Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Hartley began a recurring role on Fox first-responder 9-1-1 as Patricia Clark, the Alzheimer's-afflicted mother of dispatcher Abby Clark (Connie Britton).
Hartley appeared in a popular series of television commercials promoting Polaroid cameras in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The two actors had such chemistry on film that some viewers mistakenly assumed that they were married in real life. Hartley's 1990 book, "I am not Mrs. James Garner," reveals that she started wearing a T-shirt with the words "I am not Mrs. Garner." (Hartley went so far as making a shirt for her infant son, reading "I am not James Garner's Child" and even one for her then-husband: "I am not James Garner." "I am Mrs. James Garner" was James Garner's real wife, who jokingly had a T-shirt printed with "I am Mrs. Garner." In 1979, Hartley appeared in an episode of Garner's television show The Rockford Files. At one point, the two characters were required to kiss, but a paparazzo was filming the scene from afar. The photos were published in a tabloid newspaper in the hopes of causing a scandal. "That woman is not James Garner's wife," an article in the TV Guide began.
Hartley's See Clearly Method, a commercial eye exercise scheme, was halted by an Iowa court after a finding of unlawful business practices and advertisements between 2001 and 2006.