Maria Mayenzet
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Maria Mayenzet is an American actress of stage and film, film director, film producer, and educator.
Maria Mayenzet | |
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| Born | United States |
| Occupations | actress of stage and film, film director, film producer, educator |
Life and career
Maria Mayenzet began her career as a stage actress, and in bit parts on television series. In 1978, she appeared on stage as Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night's Dream in the San Diego Shakespeare Festival at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego.[1] In 1979, Mayenzet appeared on stage as Isabelle in Measure for Measure with the Shakespeare Society of America at the Globe Playhouse in Los Angeles.[2]
In 1985, Mayenzet had a major role in her first feature film as a murder victim in the 1985 thriller Jagged Edge which starred Jeff Bridges and Glenn Close.[3][4][5] Mayenzet continued appearing on television sitcoms and dramas, and found a recurring role as a nun in the three-season long Vietnam War series, Tour of Duty. She also appeared in two episodes of the long-running Angela Lansbury mystery series Murder, She Wrote. She also cast as the lead in the daytime television special co-production between Televisa and Fox Television, Forever (1996), as an ex-convict seeking revenge.[6] Forever (1996) was successful in Russia.[6]
In 2016, the American Coast Theatre Company presented on stage, Life Without Parole, starring Mayenzet at the Edgemar Center for the Arts in Santa Monica, California.[7]
She is a faculty member in the Cinema Television and Radio Department at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, California,[8] teaching performance for television and film and video production.
Filmography
Film
- Jagged Edge (1985), as Page Forrester[3]
- Messenger of Death (1988), as Esther[9]
- Forever (1996), as Susan[6]
- Dead Sexy (2001), as Patricia Pollard[10]
Television
- Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1986)[11]
- Tour of Duty (1987–1990, TV series), as Sister Bernardette
- Proud Men (1987 TV movie), as Adriane MacLeod[12][13]
- Mancuso, F.B.I. (1990), as Czech secret police[14]