This woman was the companion of a very famous director. She not only accompanied this talented person in life, but also starred in his early films, which greatly contributed to his brilliant ascent to the cinematic Olympus.
Louise Lasser is an actress and screenwriter. Ex-wife of famed director Woody Allen. Representative of the American school of cinema. She gained fame after the release of the film with her participation "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman". The track record of a native of the city of New York includes 64 cinematic works. The actress, born in 1939, has been engaged in professional activities since 1962, when she played a supporting role in the short film "Mixing". In 2012, she played the role of Beedy in the series Girls.
Movies and genres
Louise Lasser starred in such famous projects as "Requiem for a Dream", "Happiness", "Taxi", "Grab Money and Run". In the latter, she is recognizable in the heroine Kay Lewis.
Movies withLouise Lasser belong to the following cinematic genres:
- Biography: "Woody Allen".
- Detective: "McCloud".
- Drama: "Such Good Friends", "Sing", "Doctors", "Girls", "Agents", "Medical Center", "Lie".
- Comedy: "Making Concessions", "Empty Nest", "Crime Wave", "Franken Whore", "Queeny in Love".
- Crime: Slug.
- Adventure: "What's up, tiger lily?" (writer).
- Thriller: "Werewolves of Wall Street".
- Fiction: "Mystery People", "Simon".
- Documentary: "American Masters".
- Short: "Mixing".
- Melodrama: "Queenie in Love", "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman".
- Music: "Dina!"
- Family: "Laverna and Shirley".
Louise Lasser has collaborated with such popular actors as Jared Leto, Lena Dunham, William Petersen, Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Carradine, Peter O'Toole, Anna Levine, Danny DeVito, Matthew Broderick, Eric Roberts.
In the films "Crime Wave" and "Bananas" she played the main characters.
About person
Actress Louise Lasser was born on April 11, 1939 in the American city of New York. Louise is Jewish, whose parents were originally from Russia. Futurethe actress studied at the Faculty of Political Science at Brandeis University, located near Boston. She was married to director Woody Allen from 1966 to 1969.
First works
In the musical "I'll Get You This Wholesale" Louise Lasser played the same heroine as the famous Barbara Streisand. At the initial stage of her career, the actress starred in commercials. In 1969, she played in the film of her husband Woody Allen's "Take the money and run." In 1971, in another of his films, Bananas, she tried on the image of the main character of this project. A little later, she appeared in the American comedy "Such Good Friends". In 1973, she played in one of the episodes of the cinematic anthology Love Story - a collection of romantic stories.
Star role
In 1976, Louise Lasser received the lead role in the satirical TV series Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. In this project, she portrayed a nervous housewife with an unfortunate fate. The television film, in which the actress initially refused to act, immediately fell in love with the audience. It was broadcast on the evening air on weekdays for two seasons. According to the producer of the film Norman Lear, as soon as he saw the performance of Louise Lasser at the casting, he immediately realized that the image of Mary Hartman suits her like no one else. The actress starred in 325 episodes of this project and left it because she was exhausted from endless filming. Louise Lasser believes that the show turned out to be interesting and beautiful duringlargely due to the fact that the actors were allowed to do whatever they wanted in the frame.
Interesting facts
Did you know that:
- The actress was the daughter-in-law of producer Letty Aronson for some time.
- Louise Lasser played in five projects of her ex-husband Woody Allen. She starred in two of them when she was still married to this famous director.
Louise Lasser claims that her fate would have been similar to the life of her heroine Mary Hartman if she had been born not in a metropolis, but in a small town, and would have married not a cinema genius, but an ordinary local guy, whom I fell in love with in high school.
