Mary Stuart Masterson
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Mary Stuart Masterson (born June 28 1966) is an American actress.
She was born in New York City, New York. She is the daughter of Peter Masterson and Carlin Glynn.
She attended schools in New York, including eight months studying anthropology at New York University.
Her first movie appearance was in the original 1975 movie The Stepford Wives at the age of eight.
She has starred in such movies as Fried Green Tomatoes, Bed of Roses, Benny & Joon, Some Kind of Wonderful and Bad Girls.
More recently, she appeared on [[Law & Order: Special Victims Unit]] as Dr. Rebecca Hendrix.
She has also appeared on the stage, being nominated for a 2003 Tony Awards as Best Actress in the Maury Yeston's musical Nine: The Musical directed by David Leveaux.
From 1990-1992 she was married to George Carl Francisco, then divorced. She later married Damon Santostefano in 2000, but the couple are now divorced.
Will make her big-screen directorial debut in "The Cake Eaters" in 2006.
Filmography
- The Cake Eaters (2007) - as Producer and Director
- The Insurgents (2006) - as Director
- Whiskey School (2005) - G.G.
- The Sister (2005) - Olga Prior
- Last Man Running (2003) - Producer
- Leo (2002) - Brynne
- West of Here (2002) - Genevieve Anderson
- The Florentine (1999) - Vikki
- The Book of Stars (1999) - Penny McGuire
- Digging to China (1998) - Gwen Frankovitz
- The Postman (1997) - Hope, Postman's Daughter (uncredited)
- Dogtown (1997) - Dorothy Sternen
- Heaven's Prisoners (1996) - Robin Gaddis
- Bed of Roses (1996) - Lisa Walker
- Radioland Murders (1994) - Penny Henderson
- Bad Girls (1994) - Anita Crown
- Benny & Joon (1993) - Juniper 'Joon' Pearl
- Mad at the Moon (1992) - Jenny Hill
- Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) - Idgie Threadgoode
- Married to It (1991, by Arthur Hiller) - Nina Bishop
- Funny About Love (1990) - Daphne
- Immediate Family (1989) - Lucy Moore
- Chances Are (1989) - Miranda Jeffries
- Mr. North (1988) - Elspeth Skeel
- Gardens of Stone (1987) - Rachel Feld
- Some Kind of Wonderful (1987) - Watts
- My Little Girl (1986, Merchant Ivory Film) - Franny Bettinger
- At Close Range (1986) - Terry
- Heaven Help Us (1985) - Danni
- The Stepford Wives (1975) - Kim Eberhart
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