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1 | In the late 1970s, it was announced she would star as Vivien Leigh in a biographical film. Unfortunately, the plans eventually fell. |
2 | In the early 1970s, Berenson was the companion of the French banking heir Baron David René de Rothschild, the younger son of Baron Guy de Rothschild. |
3 | She was known as "The Queen of the Scene" for her frequent appearances at nightclubs and other social venues in her youth; Yves Saint-Laurent dubbed her "the girl of the Seventies". |
4 | Berenson is chairman of the board of Culture Project, an organization that sponsors the theater. |
5 | She and ex husband Jim Randall have a daughter Starlite Melody Randall born in 1977. |
6 | Best friend of Cabaret (1972) co-star Liza Minnelli. |
7 | Her father was Robert L. Berenson, a U.S. diplomat of Lithuanian Jewish descent (his family's original surname was Valvrojenski). He was related to legendary art critic Bernard Berenson, an expert in Italian Renaissance. Her mother was Countess Maria Luisa (Marisa) Yvonne Radha (aka "Gogo") de Wendt de Kerlor. Gogo was the daughter of Swiss-French Count Wilhelm de Wendt de Kerlor and fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli. Born in Rome, Schiaparelli was the daughter of Celestino Schiaparelli (1841-1919), of Italian stock, and his wife, of Egyptian stock (Her great-uncle was Giovanni Schiaparelli, an astronomer who discovered the canals of Mars). When Schiaparelli married Count Wilhelm, they relocated to Greenwich Village where Gogo was born. He soon fled, and Elsa's career in fashion designing began. She was hugely successful in Paris, second only to Coco Chanel and she even collaborated with Salvador Dalí and Jean Cocteau. (Marisa herself maintained the tradition, becoming a top model in the 60s both in Europe and in New York). |
8 | Her father was of Lithuanian Jewish descent. Her mother had Italian, Egyptian, Swiss, and French ancestry. |
9 | Her daughter, Starlite Melody Randall, appears on the reality show Gastineau Girls (2005) on E!. |
10 | Before entering films, she was one of the top fashion models of the 1960s, a favorite at "Vogue". |
11 | Marisa and Jim Randall lived in a million-dollar mansion in Beverly Hills he bought from Debbie Reynolds. The house had a private movie theater with 35mm projectors fitted with Cinemascope lenses. It also included his and hers bathrooms, the floors and walls of which were marble and granite. It had three swimming pools with waterfalls one into the other on the side of a hill. It had a private barbershop with regulation barber chair, sauna and gym. The house was fitted with state-of-the-art security devices which included TV camera, motion detectors and wireless "panic buttons" which they carried with them in the house, and which were wired directly into the Beverly Hills Police Dept. A security guard lived on the premises and manned a control room in the basement where he monitored the TV cameras, etc. The wedding of Randall and Berenson was held in this house, and George Hamilton was Randall's best man. The reception turned into a brawl when some of the guests got into a fight. |
12 | Former sister-in-law of actor Anthony Perkins. |
13 | Marisa's sister, actress/photographer Berry Berenson, was one of the 58 victims of the terrorist-hijacked plane that crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. |
14 | Aunt of actor Osgood Perkins and musician Elvis Perkins. |
15 | Grandaughter of famous fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli. |
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Cabaret | 1972 | | Natalia Landauer |
Death in Venice | 1971 | | Frau von Aschenbach |
Coronet Blue | 1967 | TV Series | Mary Barclay |
Morning Paris | | announced rumored | |
Unforgettable | | pre-production | |
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet | 2016 | | Lady Capulet |
La collection: Ecrire pour... la trentaine vue par des écrivains | 2014 | TV Mini-Series | Marianne |
The Love Punch | 2013 | | Clothilde |
Opium | 2013 | | Marquise Casati |
Le sang de la vigne | 2011 | TV Series | Shirley |
Gigola | 2010 | | Solange |
Caldo criminale | 2010 | TV Movie | Lucrezia |
Il peccato e la vergogna | 2010 | TV Series | Elena Fontamara |
Hitler in Hollywood | 2010 | | Marisa Berenson |
Matrimoni e altri disastri | 2010 | | Lucrezia |
The Disciple | 2010 | | Maria |
Cinéman | 2009 | | Lady Lyndon |
Io sono l'amore | 2009 | | Allegra Rori Recchi |
Vote and Die: Liszt for President | 2008 | | Dr. Elizabeth Dyson |
24 mesures | 2007 | | La mère |
Mafiosa | 2006-2007 | TV Series | Caterina Paoli |
Mystère | 2007 | TV Mini-Series | Irène de Lestrade |
Le juge est une femme | 2005 | TV Series | Julie de Berg |
Venus and Apollo | 2005 | TV Series | Albina de Braise |
Color Me Kubrick | 2005 | | Alex Witchell |
Le plus beau jour de ma vie | 2004 | | Barbara |
Julie, chevalier de Maupin | 2004 | TV Movie | Madame de Maintenon |
Commissaire Valence | 2004 | TV Series | Mme Irène |
People | 2004 | | Daniella |
Ama il tuo nemico 2 | 2001 | TV Movie | |
Lonesome | 2001 | | Verena |
Lisa | 2001 | | Princess Maruschka |
Primetime Murder | 2000 | | Martha Werther |
The Photographer | 2000 | | Julie Morris |
Retour | 1999 | | Stéphanie |
Maintenant et pour toujours | 1998 | TV Movie | Marianne |
Riches, belles, etc. | 1998 | | Alizéa |
Elles | 1997 | | Chloé |
Tonka | 1997 | | Mme Pflaum |
Maigret | 1996 | TV Series | Madame Crosby |
Het verdriet van België | 1995 | TV Mini-Series | Madame Laura |
Le grand blanc de Lambaréné | 1995 | | Helene Schweitzer |
Venti dal Sud | 1993 | | Anne de Bois |
Il giardino dei ciliegi | 1992 | | Charlotte |
Notorious | 1992 | TV Movie | Katarina Sebastian |
Murder, She Wrote | 1992 | TV Series | Claudia Cameron |
Hollywood Detective | 1991 | TV Series | Dorothy Parker |
L'enfant des loups | 1991 | TV Movie | Radegonde |
Ti ho adottato per simpatia | 1991 | TV Movie uncredited | |
Chillers | 1990 | TV Series | |
Night of the Cyclone | 1990 | | Françoise |
White Hunter Black Heart | 1990 | | Kay Gibson, Film Star |
Blaues Blut | 1990 | TV Mini-Series | Ann Ryder |
Have a Nice Night | 1990 | TV Movie | Barbara Jenkins |
Guerra di spie | 1989 | TV Mini-Series | Isabella De Ambrosis (1988) |
Ocean | 1989 | TV Mini-Series | Muneca Chavez |
Hemingway | 1988 | TV Mini-Series | Pauline Pfeiffer |
Via Montenapoleone | 1987 | | Francesca |
Lo scialo | 1987 | TV Mini-Series | Nina |
Flagrant désir | 1986 | | Jeanne Barnac |
ABC Afterschool Specials | 1986 | TV Series | Liz Childs |
Who's the Boss? | 1986 | TV Series | Genevieve Pescher |
Sins | 1986 | TV Mini-Series | Luba Tcherina |
The Equalizer | 1985 | TV Series | Andrea Browne |
The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud | 1984 | | Emma Herrmann |
L'arbalète | 1984 | | L'Arbalète' |
La tête dans le sac | 1984 | | Vera |
Bel ami | 1983 | TV Mini-Series | Clotilde de Marelle |
S.O.B. | 1981 | | Mavis |
Playing for Time | 1980 | TV Movie | Elzvieta |
Tourist | 1980 | TV Movie | Marian |
Killer Fish | 1979 | | Ann |
Some Like It Cool | 1977 | | The Caliph's Wife |
Barry Lyndon | 1975 | | Lady Honoria Lyndon |
Un modo di essere donna | 1973 | | Sibilla Ferrandi |
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Made in Italy 1951-2014 | 2015 | TV Movie documentary | Récitante / Narrator (voice) |
Pop Models | 2014 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
Soir de Fête | 2013 | TV Series | Herself |
About Face: Supermodels Then and Now | 2012 | Documentary | Herself |
Visionaries: Inside the Creative Mind | 2011 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
Amore carne | 2011 | Documentary | Herself |
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel | 2011 | Documentary | Herself |
Ma plus belle histoire | 2011 | TV Series short | Herself |
La traversée du miroir | 2010 | TV Series | Herself |
Cinémas | 2010 | TV Series | Herself |
Le plus grand cabaret du monde | 2009 | TV Series | Herself |
La traversée du désir | 2009 | Documentary | Herself |
Valentino: The Last Emperor | 2008 | Documentary | Herself |
Quand les femmes nous font rire | 2008 | TV Movie documentary | |
Cannes, 60 ans d'histoires | 2007 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
Secrets of Mary Magdalene | 2006 | Video documentary | Narrator |
Fragiles et sublimes... Stars en clair obscur | 2006 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
Biography | 2004 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
E! True Hollywood Story | 2002 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
Fashion Victim: The Killing of Gianni Versace | 2001 | TV Movie documentary | Narrator (voice) |
VH1 Divas 2000: A Tribute to Diana Ross | 2000 | TV Special | Herself - Audience Member (uncredited) |
VH1 Divas Live 2 | 1999 | TV Special documentary | Herself - Audience Member (uncredited) |
À la recherche de Stanley Kubrick | 1999 | Documentary | Herself |
Globos de Ouro 1997 | 1998 | TV Movie | Herself |
Mundo VIP | 1997 | TV Series | Herself |
Jet 7 | 1996 | TV Series | Herself (1997) |
Droit d'auteurs | 1996 | TV Series | Herself |
Corazón, corazón | 1996 | TV Series | Herself |
Nulle part ailleurs | 1995 | TV Series | Herself |
The 8th Annual American Cinema Awards | 1991 | TV Special | Herself |
Mardi cinéma | 1984-1988 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
Àngel Casas Show | 1986-1987 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
Muppet Video: Rowlf's Rhapsodies with the Muppets | 1985 | Video | Herself |
Night of 100 Stars II | 1985 | TV Movie | Herself |
Late Night with David Letterman | 1984 | TV Series | Herself |
La nuit des Césars | 1983 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
The Eighteenth Century Woman | 1982 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
The 22nd Annual Grammy Awards | 1980 | TV Special | Herself |
The 36th Annual Golden Globes Awards | 1979 | TV Special | Herself - Presenter |
The Muppet Show | 1978 | TV Series | Herself - Special Guest Star |
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Henry Fonda | 1978 | TV Special documentary | Herself (uncredited) |
The 35th Annual Golden Globe Awards | 1978 | TV Movie documentary | Herself - Presenter |
The Paul Ryan Show | 1977 | TV Series | Herself |
The 48th Annual Academy Awards | 1976 | TV Special | Herself - Presenter:Best Animated Short Film and Best Live Action Short Film |
Dinah! | 1976 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
The Mike Douglas Show | 1976 | TV Series | Herself - Actress |
The 45th Annual Academy Awards | 1973 | TV Special | Herself - Presenter |
Liza with a Z | 1972 | TV Special | Herself - Audience Member (uncredited) |
The David Frost Show | 1972 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
The 29th Annual Golden Globe Awards | 1972 | TV Special | Herself |