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Mary Anne McGarry

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Mary Anne McGarry
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Mary Anne McGarry holds both US and EU passports: she was born to Irish-American parents in Cincinnati, Ohio. She began acting when she was 14 years old; and her first professional role was Irena in Chekhov's "Three Sisters" at St. Louis' Gaslight Theater. She describes theater as her drug of choice: in order to assure a steady supply, she acted, directed, wrote, and produced theater across the US.

For years, she had parallel careers in theater and academia: she studied at Quebec's Universite Laval, Cambridge University in Great Britain, St. Louis University (US), and has a theater/film Ph.D from Northwestern University. She is the former head of the MFA acting program at UC Irvine. Theater credits include 6 seasons with the Tony award-winning South Coast Repertory; the Mark Taper Forum of Los Angeles, the Pasadena Playhouse, Steppenwolf, Northlight Rep, and Court Theaters of Chicago; DC's Folger Theater, NYC's Public Theater, People's Light & Theater Co (PA), Sacramento Theater Company, and her own summer Shakespeare Festival in Geneva, IL.

In 1988, she began working in TV and film. She has the distinction of being fired, along with George Clooney, from the first season of "Roseanne", for reasons known only to Roseanne Barr. After that temporary setback, she worked with many wonderful people, including Ryan Murphy, Emily Mortimer, John C Reilly, Joan Allen, Anthony Hopkins, Paris Barclay, Aza Jacobs, Will Ferrell, Amy Brenneman, Alexis Bledel, Sacha Gervasi, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn Jr., Ted Griffin, Glenne Headley, Vicky Jensen, Matthew McConaughey, Mary Louise Parker, Estelle Parsons, Brett Ratner, Gary Sinise, Christian Slater, John Slattery, John Spencer, David McWhirter, John Stamos, Alan Taylor, Matt Weiner, and her pal, Jonelle Allen.

Mary Anne's one-woman show "Honeymoon in Galway" was named "Best of the Year" by the Los Angeles Times, and is in development for film, with Arthur Lappin as Exec Producer. Her screenplay, "Craving for That Kind of Love," set in Harlem and London in the 20's, is in development for UK television. Her first mystery novel, "Homicide Nun", features an Irish nun as a reluctant homicide detective, transplanted to Riverside, CA.

She has three siblings, a daughter and 3 grandchildren, living in New Orleans.
BornMay 20, 1944
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Garrett M. Brown, Bonita Friedericy, Mary Anne McGarry, Robert Morse, Joseph Siravo, and Jessica Blair Herman in American Crime Story (2016)
Sofía Vergara, Mary Anne McGarry, Jonathan McMurtry, and Ed O'Neill in Modern Family (2009)
Mary Anne McGarry and Jonathan McMurtry in Modern Family (2009)
Mary Anne McGarry, Los Angeles 2019
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Mary Anne McGarry,  on location,  Santa Monica, CA, May 2015.
Mary Anne McGarry as Juditha Brown in AMERICAN CRIME STORY, May 2015
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Mary Anne McGarry,  Los Angeles photo shoot October 2011.
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Steve Buscemi, Daniel Radcliffe, and Geraldine Viswanathan in Miracle Workers (2019)
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Emily Mortimer and Dolly Wells in Doll & Em (2013)
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  • Kate Bosworth in Bring on the Dancing Horses (2022)
    Bring on the Dancing Horses
  • Steve Buscemi, Daniel Radcliffe, and Geraldine Viswanathan in Miracle Workers (2019)
    Miracle Workers
  • Janelle Monáe in Homecoming (2018)
    Homecoming
  • Christopher Lloyd, Hector Elizondo, Beth Lacke, Adrian Martinez, Holland Taylor, and Stacey Yen in Guess Who Died (2018)
    Guess Who Died
  • Mark Harmon, Maria Bello, Wilmer Valderrama, Rocky Carroll, David McCallum, Sean Murray, Brian Dietzen, Emily Wickersham, and Diona Reasonover in NCIS (2003)
    NCIS
  • Beanie Feldstein in American Crime Story (2016)
    American Crime Story
  • Mary McDonnell, G.W. Bailey, Michael Paul Chan, Raymond Cruz, Tony Denison, Robert Gossett, Jon Tenney, Phillip P. Keene, and Kearran Giovanni in Major Crimes (2012)
    Major Crimes
  • Hawaii Five-0 (2010)
    Hawaii Five-0
  • Emily Mortimer and Dolly Wells in Doll & Em (2013)
    Doll & Em
  • Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Michael Wincott, Toni Collette, Jessica Biel, James D'Arcy, Danny Huston, and Scarlett Johansson in Hitchcock (2012)
    Hitchcock
  • Eileen Davidson, Bryton James, Joshua Morrow, Gina Tognoni, Justin Hartley, Melissa Claire Egan, and Peter Bergman in The Young and the Restless (1973)
    The Young and the Restless
  • Sofía Vergara, Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Sarah Hyland, Ed O'Neill, Eric Stonestreet, Beatrice the Dog, Ariel Winter, Nolan Gould, Rico Rodriguez, Reid Ewing, Aubrey Anderson-Emmons, and Jeremy Maguire in Modern Family (2009)
    Modern Family
  • Terri (2011)
    Terri
  • Christian Slater, Heather Stephens, and Michelle Borth in The Forgotten (2009)
    The Forgotten
  • Mad Men (2007)
    Mad Men

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    • Amazon Kindle: HONEYMOON IN GALWAY
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    • May 20, 1944
    • Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
  • Other works
    Short Stories, "Honeymoon in Galway, Christmas in DeKalb". Amazon Kindle.

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