Mary Stuart Masterson
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Mary Stuart Masterson (born June 28, 1966) is an American actress.
She has starred in the films At Close Range (1986), Some Kind of Wonderful (1987), Chances Are (1989), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) and Benny & Joon (1993).
She won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the 1989 film Immediate Family, and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for the 2003 Broadway revival of Nine.
Early life and education
Masterson was born June 28, 1966, in Manhattan (some sources cite Los Angeles, CA) the daughter of writer-director-actor-producer Peter Masterson and singer-actress Carlin Glynn. She has two siblings: Peter Jr., and Alexandra. As a teenager, she attended Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center in upstate New York with actors Robert Downey Jr. and Jon Cryer. Later, she attended schools in New York, including eight months studying anthropology at New York University.
Personal life
Masterson was married to George Carl Francisco from 1990 to 1992 and to filmmaker Damon Santostefano from 2000 to 2004. In 2006, Masterson married actor Jeremy Davidson after they starred together in the 2004 stage production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. In October 2009, Masterson gave birth to their first child, son Phineas Bee. She gave birth to twins in August 2011, son Wilder and daughter Clio.
Career
Masterson appeared in The Stepford Wives (1975), portraying a daughter to her real-life father. She preferred to continue her education rather than pursue her career as a child actor, although she did appear in several Dalton School productions. In 1985, she returned to cinema in Heaven Help Us as Danni, a vivacious teen who ran the soda shop of her gravely ill father. Terry, Brad Jr.'s girlfriend, was played by Sean Penn and Christopher Walken in the film At Close Range (1986) as Brad Jr.'s girlfriend Terry, a film based on an actual rural Pennsylvania crime family led by Bruce Johnston, Sr. during the 1960s and 1970s. Watts played the tomboyish drummer Watts in the teen film Some Kind of Wonderful (1987). As a result, she is closely affiliated with the Brat Pack. In Gardens of Stone, Francis Ford Coppola starred her in a film in which she played her on-screen parents. She appeared in Chances Are With Cybill Shepherd, Ryan O'Neal, and Robert Downey Jr. in 1989, and in Immediate Family, she played Lucy Moore, a teenage girl giving up her first baby to a wealthy couple. The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures gave her a "Best Supporting Actress" award for her role in that film.
During the 1990s, Masterson appeared in films and television. Fried Green Tomatoes, a film based on the novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, appeared in 1991. The film was well-received, with film critic Roger Ebert applauding Masterson's contribution. She had been invited to host Saturday Night Live the previous year. She appeared in Benny & Joon as Joon in 1993, playing the psychiatric ill love interest. She appeared in Bad Girls in 1994, playing Anita Crown, a former prostitute who joins three other female prostitutes (played by Madeleine Stowe, Andie MacDowell, and Drew Barrymore) in traveling the Old West. Masterson appeared alongside Christian Slater in the romantic drama Bed of Roses in 1996.
Although Masterson continued to work in film, by 2000, she had made the switch to television. Kate Brasher, a 2001 television show whose creators were killed by CBS after six episodes. Masterson played Dr. Helen Taussig in the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning HBO biographical drama Something the Lord Made in 2004. Dr. Rebecca Hendrix made five guest appearances on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit between 2004 and 2007. Eleanor Hirst, the FBI chief, appeared in the second and third seasons of Blindspot a decade later.
Masterson has appeared in Broadway theater productions and has been nominated for the 2003 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical in the Maury Yeston musical Nine: The Musical, directed by David Leveaux.
Several audiobooks have been narrated, including Julia Glass' book I See You Everywhere, Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell, The Quickie by James Patterson, and Lisa Scottoline's Look Again.
Masterson revealed in May 1993 she had written a screenplay for a film tentatively titled Around the Block, a romantic comedy about a woman who overcomes her fears by becoming a singer; in a news article about Benny & Joon's box office triumph, she told Entertainment Weekly that she would direct it herself, with principal photography set to take place this fall.
In 2001, she began her directing career with a segment called "The Other Side" in the television show On the Edge.
Masterson made her debut in 2007 with The Cake Eaters, which premiered at the Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival, as well as the Ashland Independent Film Festival, where it received the 'Audience Award – Dramatic Feature' award in 2008. In an interview, Masterson said, "I wasn't afraid to do this, but it was scary." I'm already 40, but we don't want to worry about it. I wrote my first screenplay in 1992, which I later went to direct, but I ended up doing acting because making a film takes forever."