Mary Woronov

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December 8, 1946 in Brooklyn, New York City, NY
Biography:Cornell University alumnus "Mary Woronov" fell under the influence of "Andy Warhol"'s "Factory" when she was barely out of her teens. Billed as "Mary Might", she showed up in such Warhol film projects as Chelsea Girls. She made her "mainstream" off-Broadway debut in 1968's Kitchenette, and seven years later won the Theater World Award for her performance in the Broadway comedy The Boom Boom Room. Though eminently employable for conformist Hollywood film and TV productions (she appeared in four consecutive episodes of the weekly series "Flying Blind"), Woronov was at her best in inexpensive, quasi-underground productions, often playing oversexed lesbians and/or physical culturalists. She frequently collaborated with actor/director "Paul Bartel", appearing to excellent advantage in such Bartel efforts as "Death Race 2000" (1975) and "Rock 'n' Roll High School" (1978). Best of all was Bartel's "Eating... Full Biography
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