Marsha Mason Net Worth

Marsha Mason's Quotes

• I always felt rightly or wrongly after being a part of a marriage and a public sort of couple the whole thing sort of felt very strange here. The idea of being a single woman in Hollywood is a very peculiar thing.
• [referring to her first film, Hot Rod Hullabaloo (1966)] I hope I won't ever find a piece of film from it.
• I realized a lot of my own personal sense of identity was wrapped up in my work. So moving to New Mexico...what was really wonderful was I discovered the work is the work and Marsha is Marsha and a lot of various pieces make up Marsha.
• [Interview with Andrea Chambers, June 1985] I thought I wasn't attractive or talented anymore. I cried easily and was depressed and removed. I became emotionally insecure about what the second half of my life would bring. I was angry, scared, frightened and lonely. I had thought the marriage would last forever.

Interesting Facts about Marsha Mason

1. Met Neil Simon while rehearsing his play, 'The Good Doctor'. They were married three weeks later. The Simon play 'Chapter Two' was the semi-autobiographical story of his life with Mason. Although Mason was in the screen version of Chapter Two (1979), she never played the role on-stage.
2. The character she played in Promises in the Dark (1979) (Dr. Alexandra Kendall) was inspired by Los Angeles oncologist, Dr. Alexandra Levine (who is listed in the credits as an advisor).
3. Attended and graduated from Nerinx Hall High School and Webster University, both in Webster Groves, Missouri.
4. Passed on the title role in Norma Rae (1979), which won Sally Field a Best Actress Oscar.
5. Narrator for the recorded queue and boat show for the "Living with the Land" boat ride attraction in Epcot at Walt Disney World, Florida (1992).
6. Beat out Barbra Streisand for the lead role in the film Cinderella Liberty (1973). Streisand was the studio's choice for the role. Marsha won her first Oscar nomination.
7. Ex-sister-in-law of Danny Simon.
8. Attended Nerinx Hall High School, the same small, private all-girls high school in Webster Groves, Missouri that The Office (2005) actress Jenna Fischer also attended.
9. She was awarded a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame at 6646 Delmar Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri on May 19, 2002.
10. Was cited as one of the most promising movie personalities of 1973 in John Willis' 1974 Film Annual "Screen World" book.
11. She studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village, New York City.
12. Currently resides in New York City, and recently completed (2018) building a contemporary home on a hayfield in bucolic Litchfield County, Connecticut.
13. Currently running her own herbal medicine business called "Resting in the River". Business is both sales and manufacturing of medicine. Medicines are made from her own herb garden in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
14. While married to writer Neil Simon, she appeared in five movies he wrote: The Goodbye Girl (1977), The Cheap Detective (1978), Chapter Two (1979), Only When I Laugh (1981) and Max Dugan Returns (1983). From those five roles, she garnered three Best Actress Oscar nominations, for The Goodbye Girl, Chapter Two, and Only When I Laugh, none of which she actually won.
15. She's on record in the AFI's book "Private Screenings" as listing Botsende jeugd (1955) as her favorite film.
16. Marsha's father, James Joseph Mason, had English and Irish ancestry. Marsha's maternal grandparents, Justyn M. Rakowski and Jadwiga/Ida Piotrzkowski, were Polish.
17. Is one of 19 actresses to have received a Best Actress Oscar nomination for a performance where they acted out a labor and/or birth; hers being for Cinderella Liberty (1973). The others in chronological order are Luise Rainer for De goede aarde (1937), Jane Wyman for Johnny Belinda (1948), Eleanor Parker for Vrouwengevangenis (1950), Elizabeth Taylor for De goudenregen van het geluk (1957), Leslie Caron for The L-Shaped Room (1962), Shirley MacLaine for Irma la Douce (1963), Vanessa Redgrave for Isadora (1968), Geneviève Bujold for Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), Ann-Margret for Tommy (1975), Ellen Burstyn for Same Time, Next Year (1978), Jessica Lange for Sweet Dreams (1985), Meryl Streep for A Cry in the Dark (1988), Samantha Morton for In America (2002), Elliot Page for Juno (2007), Gabourey Sidibe for Precious (2009), Ruth Negga for Loving (2016), Yalitza Aparicio for Roma (2018) and Vanessa Kirby for Pieces of a Woman (2020).