Berry Berenson
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Berinthia (Berry) Berenson (aka Berry Perkins), (April 14, 1948 – September 11, 2001), was an American model, actress and photographer. She was best known as the wife of actor Anthony Perkins, from 1973 until his death in 1992. She is the mother of actor-musician Oz Perkins and singer-songwriter Elvis Perkins.
Following a brief modelling career, Berenson had a number of minor roles in big budget movies, including Cat People with Malcolm McDowell, before starring opposite Jeff Bridges in Remember My Name. She then developed a career in photography, shooting many photos for the covers of Life magazine, as well as fashion pictures for Vogue magazine.
She died at age 53 in the September 11, 2001, attacks on board American Airlines flight 11. She was returning from a holiday on Cape Cod to her California home.
She was the younger daughter of Robert L. Berenson, a U.S. diplomat of Lithuanian-Jewish descent whose original family name was Valvrojenski. Her mother was Countess Maria Luisa Yvonne Radha de Wendt de Kerlor, better known as Gogo Schiaparelli, a socialite of Italian, Swiss, French, and Egyptian ancestry. (She is now Marchesa Cacciapuoti di Giugliano). Berry Berenson's maternal grandmother was the Paris fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, and her sister is the actress and model Marisa Berenson.
Berenson also was a great-great-niece of Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer who believed he had discovered the supposed canals of Mars, a great-great-niece of art expert Bernard Berenson (1865 – 1959), and a great-great-niece of Senda Berenson (1868 – 1954), an athlete and educator who was one of the first two women elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
[edit] See also
- Memorial to Berry Berenson on the September 11 wiki
