Mariel Hadley Hemingway (born November 22, 1961) is an American actress, businessperson and writer.
Hemingway was born in Mill Valley, California, the third daughter of Byra Louise (née Whittlesey) Hemingway and John 'Jack' Hadley Nicanor Hemingway, a writer. Her sisters are Joan Hemingway (born 1950) and Margaux Louise Hemingway (born 1955). Margaux, who became an actress and model, died of a barbituate overdose in 1996 at age 41.
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Mariel Hadley Hemingway (born November 22, 1961) is an American actress, businessperson and writer.
Hemingway was born in Mill Valley, California, the third daughter of Byra Louise (née Whittlesey) Hemingway and John 'Jack' Hadley Nicanor Hemingway, a writer. Her sisters are Joan Hemingway (born 1950) and Margaux Louise Hemingway (born 1955). Margaux, who became an actress and model, died of a barbituate overdose in 1996 at age 41.
Her paternal grandfather was writer Ernest Hemingway; She never met her grandfather as he committed suicide several months before she was born.
She was named after the Cuban port of Mariel—a village that her father and grandfather visited regularly as sportsmen to fish. Her middle name was after her paternal grandmother, Ernest's first wife Hadley Richardson.
Hemingway grew up primarily in Ketchum, Idaho, where her father lived, and where her paternal grandfather had also spent a great deal of time as a sportsman and writer. Mariel also spent part of her...
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