Mariette Hartley

Mariette Hartley
Hartley with Raymond Burr in Kingston: Confidential (1977)
Born	Mary Loretta Hartley (1940-06-21) June 21, 1940 (age 76) New York City, U.S.
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)

Mary Loretta "Mariette" Hartley (born June 21, 1940) is an American character actress.

Hartley was born in New York City, the daughter of Mary Ickes "Polly" (née Watson), a manager and saleswoman, and Paul Hembree Hartley, an account executive. Her maternal grandfather was John B. Watson, an American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism. Her brother, Paul Hartley, is a writer (The Seventh Tool, The Lover, Paradise) .

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.

Hartley is a 1965 graduate of Carnegie Mellon University (at the time, Carnegie Institute of Technology).

In her 1990 autobiography Breaking the Silence, written with Anne Commire, Hartley talked about her struggles with psychological problems, pointing directly at Watson’s practical application of his theories as the source of the dysfunction in his family. She has also spoken in public about her experience of bipolar disorder and was a founder of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

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

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.