Mariette Hartley
Actress

Mariette Hartley Net Worth

Mariette Hartley was born Mary Loretta in Weston, Connecticut in 1940. Raised in accordance with her grandfather's principles, she found solace in the theatre. After six years of study, she made her first movie, Ride the High Country (1962). She then made a series of TV appearances and sitcoms, and is most known for her series of Polaroid commercials with James Garner. In 1987, she revealed her father's suicide, which brought her considerable acclaim and led to her co-founding a suicide prevention foundation. She continues to work in the theatre and is the mother of two children, Justine and Sean.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actress
Birth Day June 21, 1940
Birth Place  Weston, Connecticut, United States
Age 83 YEARS OLD
Birth Sign Cancer
Alma mater Carnegie Mellon University
Occupation Actress
Years active 1962–present
Spouse(s) John Seventa (1960–1962) (divorced) Patrick Boyriven (1978–1996) (divorced) (2 children) Jerry Sroka (2005– )
Children Sean Boyriven (b. 1975) Justine Hartley-Boyriven (b. 1978)

💰 Net worth: $1.5 Million (2024)

Mariette Hartley, an esteemed actress known for her remarkable contributions in the United States, has amassed a substantial net worth estimated to be around $1.5 million in 2024. With a career spanning several decades, Hartley has captivated audiences with her unparalleled talent and versatility. Renowned for her powerful performances on the big and small screen, she has left an indelible mark on the entertainment industry. Throughout her illustrious journey, Hartley has received numerous accolades, including an Emmy Award. As she continues to showcase her immense skill and passion for acting, Mariette Hartley remains an iconic figure in American cinema.

Biography/Timeline

1962

Hartley began her career as an eight year old in the White Barn Theater in Westport, Connecticut. In her teens as a stage Actress, she was coached and mentored by Eva Le Gallienne. Her film career began with Ride the High Country (1962), a western with actors Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea, and directed by Sam Peckinpah. In 1962, she appeared in an episode of CBS's Gunsmoke as a mountain girl. In 1963 she starred in the leading role in Drums of Africa with Frankie Avalon, Lloyd Bochner and Torin Thatcher, directed by James B. Clark. She was cast in an episode of the Jack Lord adventure/drama series about the rodeo circuit, Stoney Burke. Hartley had a supporting role as Susan Clabon in Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie in 1964.

1963

She worked with Rod Serling and Gene Roddenberry, two creators of television science fiction. In 1963, she appeared in an episode of The Twilight Zone ("The Long Morrow"). She played the character 'Ellie' in episode 118 (1964) of Gunsmoke. She appeared in two episodes of the NBC series Daniel Boone, "Valley of the Sun" in 1968 and as a nun in "An Angel Cried" in 1970. In 1969, she appeared in the penultimate episode of NBC's Star Trek, "All Our Yesterdays," as Zarabeth. She appeared in several science fiction films, Marooned (1969), Earth II (1971), and the pilot for the post-apocalyptic Genesis II (1973), another Roddenberry production.

1965

In 1965, Hartley was cast as a Mormon "hand-cart" pioneer, Jessica Scott, who with her husband searches for their lost boy taken by Indians while they are en route to Utah, in the episode "The Red Shawl" of the syndicated series, Death Valley Days, then hosted by Ronald W. Reagan. The boy was wrapped in the shawl when he went missing. Also 1967 "Death Valley Days" in Lost Sheep in Trinidad as Sister Blandia

1966

In 1966, Hartley appeared as Polly Dockery in the series finale, "A Burying for Rosey", of ABC's The Legend of Jesse James. She also made three guest appearances on NBC's Bonanza, one in 1965 ("Right Is the Fourth R"), another one in 1968 (“The Survivors”), and the last one in 1970 (“Is There any Man Here?”) and ("The Iron Butterfly").

1970

During the late 1970s and into the early 1980s, Hartley appeared with James Garner in a popular series of television commercials advertising Polaroid cameras. The two actors had such amazing on-screen chemistry that many viewers erroneously believed that they were married in real life. Hartley's biography indicates that she began to wear a T-shirt printed with the phrase "I am not Mrs. James Garner." (Hartley went as far to have a shirt made for her infant son, reading "I am not James Garner's Child" and even one for her then-husband: "I am not James Garner!") Hartley guest-starred in a memorable episode of Garner's television series The Rockford Files around this time. The script required the two to kiss at one point and unknown to them, a paparazzo was photographing the scene from a distance. The photos were run in a tabloid trying to provoke a scandal, causing a good deal of attention. An article that ran in TV Guide was titled: "That woman is not James Garner’s wife!"

1978

In 1960, Hartley married John Seventa but they divorced two years later. A second marriage to Patrick Boyriven on August 13, 1978 produced two children, Sean (born 1975) and Justine (born 1978). Hartley and Boyriven divorced in 1996 and Hartley married Jerry Sroka in 2005.

1979

On television, she portrayed Dr. Claire Morton on the prime-time adaption of ABC's Peyton Place. In 1971, Hartley had a guest appearance with Glenn Corbett on the Gunsmoke episode "Phoenix." In 1973 she appeared as divorcee Marilyn Dietz on The Bob Newhart Show, and in Disney's The Mystery in Dracula's Castle. In 1974, she guest-starred in the "Moran's the Man" episode of Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers. She also guest-starred in the "Zero" episode of Emergency!. In 1975, she appeared on McCloud, starring Dennis Weaver, titled "Lady on the Run." In 1976, she played a widow on Little House on the Prairie episode 43, "For My Lady". In 1978, she appeared in the television series Logan’s Run (based on the film of the same name) and in CBS's The Incredible Hulk in two episodes. As Dr. Carolyn Fields, she marries Bill Bixby's character, the alter ego of the Hulk; for her performance, Hartley won an Emmy Award. In 1979, she appeared in an episode of The Rockford Files titled "Paradise Cove" (Season 6, Episode 1, No. 112 in the Series, first aired September 28, 1979) as Althea Morgan, the Court appointed Receiver.

1983

Hartley appeared in an episode of M*A*S*H as Dr. Inga Halverson (Series 7, Episode 17, "Inga"). She also co-starred with Bixby in the 1983 situation comedy Goodnight, Beantown. She appeared in two episodes of the NBC mystery series Columbo, starring Peter Falk as the rumpled detective. One was "Try and Catch Me" with Ruth Gordon, the other "Publish or Perish" with Jack Cassidy. In 1979, she portrayed the Witch in ABC's holiday telefilm The Halloween That Almost Wasn't, a.k.a. The Night Dracula Saved The World. In 1986, she co-starred with Lynn Redgrave in the made for TV movie My Two Loves.

1990

In the 1990s, she toured with Elliott Gould and Doug Wert in the revival of the mystery Deathtrap. She has hosted the long-running television documentary series Wild About Animals, an educational program. In 2005 she appeared in the NCIS episode, "SWAK". In 2006, Hartley starred in her own one-woman show, If You Get to Bethlehem, You've Gone Too Far, which ran in Los Angeles.

2001

Between 2001 and 2006, Hartley endorsed the See Clearly Method, a commercial eye exercise program, whose sales an Iowa court halted after a finding of fraudulent Business practices and advertising.

2009

In 2009, Hartley spoke at a suicide and violence prevention forum about her father's suicide.

2014

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.

2018

In January 2018 Hartley began 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).

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