Berry Berenson
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Berinthia "Berry" Berenson-Perkins (Template:Née Berenson; April 14, 1948 – September 11, 2001) was an American actress, model and photographer. She was the widow of actor Anthony Perkins.
She died in the September 11 attacks, as a passenger on American Airlines Flight 11. It crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City.
Early life
[edit]Berry Berenson was born in Murray Hill, Manhattan, New York City. Her mother was born Maria-Luisa Yvonne Radha de Wendt de Kerlor, better known as Gogo Schiaparelli, a socialite of Italian, Swiss, & French ancestry.<ref name="htgxkf">Elsa Schiaparelli. Shocking Life. New York. Dutton, 1954</ref> Her father, Robert Lawrence Berenson, was an American career diplomat turned shipping executive. He was of Russian-Jewish and Polish-Jewish descent, and his family's original surname was Valvrojenski.<ref>Bernard Berenson. Sketch for a Self-Portrait. New York. Pantheon. 1949</ref><ref>"Robert L. Berenson, Ex-Envoy and Head of Shipping Line, Dies". The New York Times. February 3, 1965, page 35</ref><ref>"Marisa $chiaparelli Is Married in Gown Designed. by Her Mother, the Cougurlere". The New York Times.</ref>
Berenson's maternal grandmother was the Italian-born fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli,<ref>Linda Greenhouse, "Schiaparelli Dies in Paris; Brought Color to Fashion", The New York Times, November 15, 1973</ref> and her maternal grandfather was Wilhelm de Wendt de Kerlor, a Theosophist and psychic medium.<ref name = "htgxkf"/><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Her elder sister, Marisa Berenson, became a well-known model and actress. She also was a great-grandniece of Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer who believed he had discovered canals on Mars, and a second cousin, once removed, of art expert Bernard Berenson (1865–1959), and his sister Senda Berenson (1868–1954), an athlete and educator who was one of the first two women elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
Career
[edit]Following a brief modeling career in the late 1960s, Berenson became a freelance photographer. In 1972, Berenson's fiancé Richard Bernstein was hired as the cover artist for Andy Warhol's Interview magazine.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Berenson would recruit models for the cover and photograph them, and Bernstein illustrated the images.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite book</ref> By 1973, her photographs had been published in Life, Glamour, Vogue and Newsweek.<ref>Judy Klemesrud, "And Now, Make Room for the Berenson Sisters", The New York Times, April 19, 1973, page 54</ref>
Berenson studied acting at New York's The American Place Theatre with Wynn Handman along with Richard Gere, Philip Anglim, Penelope Milford, Robert Ozn, Ingrid Boulting and her sister Marisa.
As an actress, Berenson starred opposite her husband Anthony Perkins in the 1978 Alan Rudolph film Remember My Name. She also appeared with Jeff Bridges in the 1979 film Winter Kills, and with Malcolm McDowell in Cat People (1982).
Personal life
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Berenson was engaged to artist Richard Bernstein.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 1972, Berenson had an affair with actor Anthony Perkins and they married on August 9, 1973, in Wellfleet, Massachusetts while she was three months pregnant.<ref name=":0" /> The couple raised two sons: actor-director Oz Perkins and folk/rock singer-songwriter Elvis Perkins.<ref>Maynard, Joyce (January 12, 1977). "Tony Perkins and Family: A Study in Informal Togetherness" Template:Webarchive. The New York Times. Westchester Weekly Section. p. 58</ref> Although Perkins was gay, they remained married until Perkins died from AIDS-related complications on September 12, 1992.<ref>Goodman, Mark (September 28, 1992). "One Final Mystery: Surrounded by Family, Friends and a Wall of Silence, Tony Perkins Succumbs to AIDS" Template:Webarchive. People. Vol. 38 No. 13.</ref><ref>Weinraub, Bernard (September 16, 1992). "Anthony Perkins's Wife Tells of 2 Years of Secrecy". The New York Times.</ref><ref>Ferrell, David (September 13, 1992). "Anthony Perkins, 60, Dies; Star of 'Psycho' Had AIDS". Los Angeles Times.</ref>
Death
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Berenson died on September 11, 2001, a day before the ninth anniversary of Perkins’ death, as she was returning home to Los Angeles from a vacation on Cape Cod. She and the other passengers and crew aboard American Airlines Flight 11 died when the plane was hijacked and deliberately crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks on the US.<ref>Hopkinson, Amanda (September 14, 2001). "Berry Berenson". The Guardian.</ref>
At the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Berenson's name is inscribed on Panel N-76 at the North Pool.<ref>"Berry Berenson Perkins" Template:Webarchive. Memorial Guide: National 9/11 Memorial. Retrieved October 28, 2011.</ref>
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