Marsha Mason
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Marsha Mason (born April 3, 1942) is an American actress and director.
She was nominated four times for the Academy Award for Best Actress; for her performances in Cinderella Liberty (1973), The Goodbye Girl (1977), Chapter Two (1979), and Only When I Laugh (1981).
The first two films also won her Golden Globe Awards.
She was married for ten years (1973–83) to the playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon, who was the writer of three of her four Oscar-nominated roles. Mason's film debut was in the 1966 film Hot Rod Hullabaloo.
Her other films include Blume in Love (1973), The Cheap Detective (1978), Max Dugan Returns (1983) Heartbreak Ridge (1986), Stella (1990) and Drop Dead Fred (1991).
On television, she appeared in the soap opera Love of Life (1971–72) and received an Emmy Award nomination for her recurring role on the sitcom Frasier (1997–98). She has also had an extensive career on stage, making her Broadway debut as a replacement in the comedy Cactus Flower in 1968.
She starred in a 1999 revival of The Prisoner of Second Avenue in London, and received a Grammy nomination for Best Comedy Album for the 2000 recording.
In 2006, she starred in the American premiere production of Hecuba at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.
Her other Broadway credits include The Night of the Iguana (1996), Steel Magnolias (2005), and Impressionism (2009). Mason guest-starred in Madam Secretary (2015–16) and The Good Wife (2016), and has had recurring roles on the ABC sitcom The Middle from 2010-2017 and the Netflix series Grace and Frankie since 2016.
Personal life
Mason was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Jacqueline Helena (Rakowski) and James Joseph Mason, a printer. She and her younger sister, Linda (b. 1943 - d. 2022), were raised Catholic and grew up in Crestwood. Mason is a graduate of Nerinx Hall High School and Webster University, both in Webster Groves. While at Webster, she performed in a variety of theatrical productions. She raced a Mazda RX-3 in SCCA events.
Mason was married to actor Gary Campbell from 1965 until they divorced in 1970. Her second marriage, to playwright Neil Simon, lasted from 1973 until their 1983 divorce.
A former long-time resident of New Mexico, she had a farm in Abiquiu that grew certified organic herbs. In the late 1990s, Mason sold herbs wholesale to companies both locally and regionally before starting a line of wellness and bath and body products called "Resting in the River". Now based in New York City, in 2018 she completed building a home on a hayfield in Litchfield County, Connecticut, where she currently resides. Mason has been a frequent visitor of Eastern countries like India going back many decades and a practitioner of Transcendental Meditation since 1970.
Career
Neil Simon played The Good Doctor, her 1973 film debut in Blume in Love. Mason and Simon, a widower, fell in love and married shortly after. Mason co-starred opposite James Caan in the 20th century Fox film Cinderella Liberty, earning her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Mason's role in Simon's smash hit film The Goodbye Girl won her her her second Best Actress Academy Award nomination in 1977. In 1979, Simon successfully cast Mason as Jennie MacLaine in his screen version of his hit play Chapter Two, which was based on Mason's friendship with Simon up to their marriage. The film was another huge success, earning her her third Oscar nomination for Best Actress.
Mason appeared in Only When I Laugh, Simon's film adaptation of his Broadway comedy-drama The Gingerbread Lady, 1981, in 1981. Mason was lauded for her role as Georgia Hines, receiving her fourth Best Actress Oscar nomination.
Max Dugan Returns (1983), a comedy by Simon, grossed only $17.6 million at the box office. Despite a stellar cast led by Mason, Donald Sutherland, Jason Robards, and Matthew Broderick, the film was a slow starter, and it was getting more popular after premiering on cable TV and VHS. Mason and Simon had divorced by this time, and her film career had lost steam. In the 1986 film Heartbreak Ridge, she co-starred with Clint Eastwood, which was well received and a commercial success. Mason also appeared in Stella, a 1990 motion picture starring Bette Midler, a remake of the 1937 film Stella Dallas.
Mason appeared in Harold Pinter's Old Times' New York production. E. Katherine Kerr's second stage drama in Los Angeles directed Juno's Swans (1986), which was produced by E. Katherine Kerr.
Norman Mailer's The Deer Park, Israel Horovitz' The Indian Wants the Bronx, Neil Simon's The Good Doctor, and Joseph Papp's 1974 Richard III at the Lincoln Center are among her stage credits. Mason appeared on Broadway in a revival of Night of the Iguana in 1996 and then in Michael Cristofer's Amazing Grace the following year. In Duncan Weldon and Emanuel Azenberg's production The Prisoner of Second Avenue, which was staged at the L.A. Theatre Works shortly after a revival in London's West End, Mason reunited with Goodbye Girl co-star Richard Dreyfuss and writer Neil Simon. She received a Grammy Award in comedy.
She appeared in Charles L. Mee's Wintertime at the Second Stage Theatre in New York. In August 2005, Mason appeared in Hecuba at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre and on Broadway in Steel Magnolias, with Delta Burke, Frances Sternhagen, Rebecca Gayheart, Lily Rabe, and Christine Ebersole. She appeared in A Feminine Ending at Playwrights Horizons and in the Shakespeare Theater Company's production of All's Well That Ends Well in Washington, D.C. In Lillian Hellman's "Watch on the Rhine" at Arena Stage in Washington, DC, and off-Broadway in the Irish Repertory Theatre's production of "Little Gem," she received an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Play.
Mason's television appearances include appearances on Seinfeld, Lipstick Jungle, and Army Wives. Mason appeared in Sibs, a 1991-92 film that ran in Australia and New Zealand. Sherry Dempsey appeared on Frasier's television show Frasier in 1997 and 1998. She co-starred in the California Suite at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles in February 2010.
In the ABC comedy film The Middle, Patricia Heaton's mother appeared from 2010 to its end in 2018. "Grace & Frankie," "Madam Secretary," and "The Good Wife" were among the new television roles.
In an Off-Broadway version of I Never Sang for My Father, Mason co-starred with Keir Dullea and Matt Servitto in April 2010. Mason's performance as Margaret Garrison received raves.
She appeared in zoom movies of "Dear Liar" with Bucks County Playhouse and opposite Richard Dreyfus in "The Letters of Noel Coward" for Bay Street Playhouse in Sag Harbor, NY, during the Pandemic.
Mason has produced "Chapter Two" and "Steel Magnolias" at the Bucks County Playhouse, "Chapter Two" and the first female "An Act of God" with Paige Davis at Arizona Theatre Company, "Juno Stories" for Second Stage in NYC, and Walter Bobbie and Brooke Shields with Amanda Plummer for the Bucks County Playhouse as a director. Marsha was Associate Director with Jack O'Brien of the Roundabout Theatre in the production of "All My Sons" on Broadway. She appeared in and co-directed Neil Simon's "Lost in Yonkers" at Hartford Stage in 2022.
On the St. Louis Walk of Fame, Mason has a celebrity.
She has worked at HB Studio (Herbert Berghof Studio) in New York City.