Mary Woronov was born on December 8, 1943, at the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida . A major cult figure as an actress, she is also an accomplished painter and writer, having published three books--Wake for the Angels: Paintings and Stories, the autobiography Swimming Underground: My Years in the Warhol Factory, and the novel Snake.
Was the childhood sweetheart of folk singer/filmmaker Harry Chapin.
She remained at the Factory while her classmates went back to Cornell University without her. When she returned to Cornell, she began taking the Greyhound bus to New York as often as possible. She eventually left Cornell permanently when Andy Warhol invited her on a trip to California with other Factory regulars in 1966.
Was friends with Herv Villechaize.
Interviewed in the book "Invasion of the B-Girls" by Jewel Shepard.
Currently lives in Los Angeles, California acting, writing and painting . She is also a graduate writing instructor at Otis College of Art and Design. Her independent film, The New Women (directed by Todd Hughes ) opened in Canada on March 15, 2002.
Has appeared with Dick Miller in eight films: Cannonball! , Hollywood Boulevard , The Lady in Red , Rock n Roll High School , Get Crazy , Chopping Mall Motorama and Looney Tunes: Back in Action .
Has appeared with Paul Bartel in ten films: Death Race 2000 , Cannonball! , Hollywood Boulevard , Rock n Roll High School , Eating Raoul , Get Crazy , Chopping Mall , Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills , The Living End and Acting on Impulse .
Best known by the public for her role as Mary Bland in the black comedy Eating Raoul .
Attended and graduated from Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn, New York in 1962.
Co-Starred as the mother Of Hardcore-Punk group Suicidal Tendencies Lead Singer Mike Muir in the 1982 video for Institutionalized & 1983s Possessed To Skate.
I knew what was art and what was shit. But sometimes the shit was more,interesting.
They [filmmakers] see me as a weirdo. I go to an audition and the,people vying for my part are tough guys, gigantic fat women, or,extremely ugly people. The director hands me a whip. . . so stupid! They,say, "Now Mary! We want this character to be really, really bad! Be,really, really bad!". No one is bad like I am.
I liked him. . . I still like him.
With most of the movies, they asked for me specifically. A lot of the,movie auditions I did, I never got. But the TV stuff I would get,because they needed certain types and I just started filling a niche.
Strong and domineering, or lesbian, whatever. But TV then was nothing,like TV now, which is just incredibly subtle and very well-written and,just amazing. TV was really deadly boring back then. Now you do movies,to get your TV series.
She was crouched in the corner of the room, eating something off the floor. It was the old woman dressed in endless black. When she looked up this time there was no question she was there for me. She had the face of my mother but much older, her ancient decayed mouth coming closer for her good-night kiss. I steeled myself against her putrid smell, the mouthful of bitter dust, but as her lips touched mine it was like biting into a purple black plum whose fruit was brilliant red, like an explosion of intense joy. Its childhood smell wrinkled my nose with pleasure, its sweet juices ran down my chin, turning into a beautiful black ocean where I floated safely, not lost as I had imagined, but securely tucked away deep in space.
