Mariel Hemingway

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American noted family, actress and writer, she is the granddaughter of writer Ernest Hemingway and sister of Margaux Hemingway. She made her film debut in 1976 in "Lipstick," a movie which also starred her sister. Her most noted role is arguably that in the 1979 movie by Woody Allen, "Manhattan." She continued to make movies sporadically. In more recent years she turned to her spiritual life, practicing yoga and meditatation and subscribing to a health regime. Her first book, a memoir entitled "Finding My Balance," was released in 2003. She married Stephen Crisman on December 9, 1984. The couple's two daughters were born in 1987 and 1989. After 24 years of marriage, she separated from her husband in May 2008. In a 2013 television documentary film, Running from Crazy, Hemingway, then 51, talked of her bouts with mental illness and her still lingering issues with her siblings. She spoke of her family's struggles with alcoholism, mental illnesses and suicide. (In particular she mentioned how her sister Margaux's suicide continued to haunt her.) She also made claims that her parents' marriage was abusive and unhappy, and about abusive incidents in her childhood. Link to Wikipedia biography