Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio is a stage, film, and television, actress and singer. She began her career in 1980 and has continued to as her career heads to the fifth decade, and it doesn’t look like she is retiring any time soon. Ms. Mastrantonio looks like that kind of actor you would still read about in 2040 as an active star. Here are all the facts you need to know about her.
Age
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio was born in November 1958. She was born to Frank A. Mastrantonio and Mary Dominica, two Americans with Italian heritage. She is an Illinois woman through and through. She was born in Lombard, Illinois. she was raised in Oaks Park, Illinois, she had her University education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne.
As the time of writing this, Mary is 60 years old.
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio: career
Elizabeth has made a name for her in musicals on Broadway stages, in films, and on TV. It began on stage, in New York City, after her university days. Her first career act was in “Amadeus” a play that gave a fictionalized story of the music legend Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in which she played several roles. on becoming an actor, Mary Ann would later say: “Suddenly, I realized: this was what I wanted to do. I didn’t know how to do it; I just knew acting felt right.”
She made the transfer to Los Angeles in 1983 and her Hollywood leg of her career began. She never left the stage entirely and continually nade appearances every decade up to 2013 when she made an appearance in the play by English author Terence Rattigan “The Winslow Boy”.
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Mary is one of the few stars who can be said to have hit the ground running in Hollywood. Her third film was “The Color of Money” shot in 1986 in which she played the role of Carmen, the girlfriend and manager of Paul Newman’s character. For his role in this film, Newman won his first Oscar award after eight prior nominations. For her part, Ann got Academy, Golden Globe and New York Film Critics Awards nominations for Best Supporting Actress.
The end of the 1980s and the ’90s are are her peak in Hollywood including “The Abyss” (1989), “Robin Hood: The Prince of Thieves” (1990), and “Limbo” (1999). The star once said: “As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.”
On the TV aspect, there are a dozen or so credits only one of them as a main cast member (“Limitless” on CBS). Between 2005 and 2006, she was a recurring part of “Without A Trace” a police drama that resolves around missing people, In 2010, she played a recurring role in Season 9 of “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” the police procedural drama on USA Network. There was CBS’ “Hostages” and “The Punisher” on Netflix between 2013 and 2019.
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio: husband
Mary is married. She got married in 1990 to Pat O’Connor the award-winning Irish film director. Born in 1943, Mr. O’Connor has made a name for himself as a director in both Europe and America. In 1989, he directed the film “The January Man” which featured a certain Ms. Mastrantonio. It must have been here that he met her for the first time. The two got married the next year (1990) and have remained married.
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Their marriage is blessed with two kids, Jack O’Connor (born in 1992) and Declan O’Connor (born in 1997).
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio: Net worth
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio is not a tall woman. She stands at 5 feet 4 inches (or 1.63 m) which is shorter than the average female height of 5 feet 5 inches. Perhaps to compensate for this, the star has a rather average net worth. Her entire earnings are put at two million dollars.
Quotes
Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.
I’ve worked with leading men so worried about losing their charm that they were always winking to the audience.
I’m not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.
I do need to be told when I’m going wrong. No one’s acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.
Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They’re not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavory.
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