Mariette Hartley Biography
Mary Loretta “Mariette” Hartley is an American Emmy Award winning character actress and a founder of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
Mariette Hartley Age
Mary Loretta Hartley was born on June 21, 1940 inNew York City, U.S. She is 67 years old as of 2019.
Mariette Hartley Height
She stands at height of 5′ 10″ (1.78 m).
Mariette Hartley Net Worth
Hartley who has more than 130 acting credits to her name, has a net worth of $6 million U.S. dollars. Acting is the primary source of her net worth.
Mariette Hartley Spouse | Husband
Hartley is married to Jerry Sroka since 2005. Previously, Hartley was married to John Seventa from 1960 to 1962. She then married Patrick Boyriven on August 13, 1978, with whom she had two children with, Sean (born 1975) and Justine (born 1978). The couple divorced in 1996.
Mariette Hartley Early Life
Born in New York City, Hartley is the daughter of Mary “Polly” Ickes (née Watson), a manager and saleswoman and Paul Hembree Hartley, an account executive. Hartley’s maternal grandfather was John B. Watson, an American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism. She has a younger brother, Paul, who is a writer (The Seventh Tool) and research philosopher. Hartley grew up in Weston, Connecticut, an affluent Fairfield County suburb within commuting distance to Manhattan.
Mariette Hartley Education
In 1965, she graduated from Carnegie Mellon University (then known as Carnegie Institute of Technology). She received an Honorary degree from Rider College in 1993.
Mariette Hartley Career
Hartley started her career as a 13-year-old in the White Barn Theatre in Norwalk, Connecticut. In her teens as a stage actress, she was coached and mentored by Eva Le Gallienne. In 1957, he graduated from Westport’s Staples High School, where she was an active member of the school’s theater group, Staples Players. She also worked at the American Shakespeare Festival.
Hartley’s first credited film appearance was in 1962 alongside Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea in the Sam Peckinpah western Ride the High Country; the role earned her a BAFTA nomination. She continued to appear in film during the 1960s, including the lead role in the adventure Drums of Africa in 1963 and prominent supporting roles in Alfred Hitchcock’s psychological thriller Marnie in 1964 — alongside Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery — and the John Sturges drama Marooned in 1969.
She also guest starred in numerous TV series during the decade, with appearances in Gunsmoke, The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (starring a young Kurt Russell), the syndicated Death Valley Days (then hosted by Ronald Reagan), Judd, for the Defense and Star Trek among others. She had a significant role in 1965, as Dr. Claire Morton in 32 episodes of Peyton Place.
Hartley appeared in the 1977 TV movie The Last Hurrah, a political drama film based on the Edwin O’Connor novel of the same name; the role earned Hartley her first Emmy Award nomination.
Hartley’s role as psychologist Dr. Carolyn Fields in “Married”, a 1978 episode of the TV series The Incredible Hulk — in which she marries Bill Bixby’s character, the alter ego of the Hulk — won Hartley the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. Hartley reunited with Bixby in 1983, in the sitcom Goodnight, Beantown, which ran for two seasons; the role earned her yet another Emmy Award nomination.
Hartley toured with Elliott Gould and Doug Wert in the In 1990s revival of the mystery play Deathtrap. Numerous roles in TV movies and guest appearances in TV series during the 1990s and 2000s would follow, including Murder, She Wrote in 1992, Courthouse in 1995, Nash Bridges in 2000 and NCIS in 2005. She had recurring roles in the soap opera One Life to Live from 1999 to 2001; 10 episodes, as Sister Mary Daniel and as Lorna Scarry in 6 episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit from 2003 to 2011.
She hosted the long-running television documentary series Wild About Animals from 1995 to 2015, an educational program. She starred in her own one-woman show in 2006, If You Get to Bethlehem, You’ve Gone Too Far, which ran in Los Angeles. In 2014, she returned to the stage as Eleanor of Aquitaine with Ian Buchanan’s Henry in the Colony Theater Company production of James Goldman’s The Lion in Winter. In January 2018, she started a recurring role on the Fox first responder drama 9-1-1 as Patricia Clark, the Alzheimer’s-afflicted mother of dispatcher Abby Clark (Connie Britton).
Mariette Hartley Movies and TV Shows
Movies
- 1958 From Hell to Texas Cameo
- 1962 Ride the High Country Elsa Knudsen
- 1963 Drums of Africa Ruth Knight
- 1964 Marnie, Susan Clabon
- 1969 Marooned, Betty Lloyd
- 1969 The Vendors Hooker
- 1970 Barquero, Anna
- 1971 The Return of Count Yorga, Cynthia Nelson
- 1972 Skyjacked, Harriet Stevens
- 1972 The Magnificent Seven Ride, Arrila
- 1981 Improper Channels, Diana Martley
- 1982 O’Hara’s Wife, Harry O’Hara
- 1988 1969, Jessie Denny
- 1992 Encino Man, Mrs. Morgan
- 1996 Snitch Kinnison
- 2003 Baggage Emily Wade
- 2006 Novel Romance, Marty McCall
- 2009 The Inner Circle Sister Madeleine
- 2016 Three Days in August Maureen
- 2016 Silver Skies Harriet
- 2017 Counting for Thunder Tina Stalworth
- 2019 The Message Esther Barnes
TV Shows
- 1962 Stoney Burke, Laura Grayson
- 1963-1964 Breaking Point, Various
- 1963-1974 Gunsmoke, Various
- 1963 Dr. Kildare, Ellen Hendricks
- 1963 Ben Casey, Julie Carr
- 1963 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, Hagar Menifee
- 1963 Channing, Evelyn Crown
- 1964 The Twilight Zone, Sandra Horn
- 1964 The Virginian, Various
- 1964 My Three Sons, Mary Kathleen Connolly
- 1965-1968 Death Valley Days, Various
- 1965-1971 Bonanza, Various
- 1965 Peyton Place, Claire Morton
- 1966-1967 The Hero, Ruth Garret
- 1966 The Legend of Jesse James, Polly Dockery
- 1967 He & She, Dorothy Webb
- 1968-1970 Daniel Boone, Various
- 1968 Judd, for the Defense, Erica Cosgrove
- 1968 Cimarron Strip, Jessica Cabot
- 1969 The Outsider, Mary Smith
- 1969 Star Trek: The Original Series, Zarabeth
- 1970-1973 The F.B.I., Various
- 1970-1975 Insight, Various
- 1970 Love, American Style, Ruth Dabb
- 1970 Marcus Welby, M.D., Maggie Lynch
- 1971 Cade’s County, Frances Pilgrim
- 1971 Earth II Lisa Karger
- 1972 Mannix, Nurse Cara Guild
- 1972 The Sixth Sense, Prof. Diana Parker/Terry Parker
- 1972 Sandcastles Sarah
- 1972 The Delphi Bureau, Sarah Bowmont
- 1972 Ghost Story, Sheila Conway
- 1972 The Bold Ones: The New Doctors, Helen Burke
- 1973-1974 The Streets of San Francisco, Various
- 1973 Mystery in Dracula’s Castle Marsha Booth
- 1973 The Magical World of Disney, Marsha Booth
- 1973 Genesis II Lyra-a
- 1973 The Bob Newhart Show, Marilyn Dietz
- 1973 Emergency!, Vera Mannering
- 1973 Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law, Roberta Laughlin
- 1974-1977 Columbo, Various
- 1974 The Wide World of Mystery, Various
- 1974 Friends and Lovers, Sandra
- 1974 Barnaby Jones, Various
- 1975 McCloud, Ann Lassiter
- 1976 Little House on the Prairie, Elizabeth Thurmond
- 1976 The Killer Who Wouldn’t Die Heather McDougall
- 1976 The Quest Vay
- 1976 Most Wanted, Lt. Ruth Massey
1977 Police Woman, Gloria Turner - 1977 Delvecchio, Angela Atkins
- 1977 The African Queen Rose Sayer
- 1977 Kingston: Confidential, Kathleen Morgan
- 1977 The Last Hurrah, Clare Gardiner
- 1977 The Oregon Trail, Susan
- 1978 Logan’s Run, Ariana
- 1978 The Incredible Hulk, Dr. Carolyn Fields
- 1979 M*A*S*H, Dr. Inga Halvorsen
- 1979 A Rainy Day Stephanie Carter
- 1979 Stone, Mrs. Diane Stone
- 1979 The Rockford Files, Althea Morgan
- 1979 The Halloween That Almost Wasn’t, The Witch
- 1980 The Love Tapes Barbara Welles
- 1980 The Secret War of Jackie’s Girls Jackie
- 1981 No Place to Hide Adele Manning
- 1982 Drop-Out Father Katherine McCall
- 1983-1984 Goodnight, Beantown, Jennifer Barnes
- 1983 M.A.D.D.: Mother’s Against Drunk Drivers Candy Lightner
- 1983 The Love Boat, Martha Chambers
- 1984 Silence of the Heart Barbara Lewis
- 1985 The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible, Rahab
- 1986 One Terrific Guy Mrs. Burton
- 1986 My Two Loves, Gail Springer
- 1989 Passion and Paradise Lady Oakes
- 1990-1991 WIOU, Liz McVay
- 1990 Murder C.O.D., Sally Kramer
- 1992 A Diagnosis of Murder Kate Hamilton
- 1992 Murder on Sycamore Street
- 1992 Child of Rage Dr. Rosemary Myers
- 1992 Murder, She Wrote, Susan Lindsay
- 1993 Perry Mason: The Case of the Telltale Talk Show Host, Dr. Sheila Carlin
- 1994 Heaven & Hell: North & South, Book III, Prudence
- 1995-2015 Wild About Animals, Hostess
- 1995 Freefall: Flight 174 Beth Pearson
- 1995 Courthouse, Judge Katherine Wilkes
- 1996 Caroline in the City, Margaret Duffy
- 1998 Conan the Adventurer, Queen Veeta
- 1998 To Have & to Hold, Ellen Cornell
- 1999-2001 One Life to Live, Sister Mary Daniel
- 1999 Kismet Mother
- 1999 The Brothers Flub, Voice
- 1999 Twice in a Lifetime, Brooke Canby/Janet Bryant
- 2000 Nash Bridges, Libby
- 2001 Kate Brasher, Gloria Raskin
- 2003-2011 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Lorna Scarry
- 2004 Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus Joanna
- 2005 NCIS, Hanna Lowell
- 2005 Meet the Santas Joanna
- 2007 Love Is a Four Letter Word Audrey
- 2007 Dirt, Dorothy Spiller
- 2008 Saving Grace, Emily Jane Ada
- 2008 Grey’s Anatomy, Betty Kenner
- 2008 Cold Case, Gloria Flagstone ’08
- 2009 The Cleaner, Jane O’Hara
- 2010 Nurses Who Kill… Paulette
- 2011 Big Love, Major
- 2013 The Mentalist, Elise Vogelson
- 2014-2015 The Comeback Kids Richie’s Mom
- 2014-2018 Fireside Chat with Esther Various
- 2015 The Dentros Joan Dentro, 2018 9-1-1, Patricia Clark
- 2019 Homeless at 17 Marnie