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Category : "Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio "
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
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Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio has lived in London, she says, "for the better part of 18 years now." This fact may surprise those whose theatrical memories stretch back to her swift ascent through the New York theater world. Mastrantonio’s New York stage credits include being an understudy in West Side Story and then Amadeus, appearing opposite Kevin Kline in Henry V, alongside Michelle Pfeiffer and Jeff Goldblum in Twelfth Night, and most recently as Aldonza in the Brian Stokes Mitchell-led Broadway revival of Man of La Mancha, for which she was nominated for a 2003 Tony Award. But London, W2, has in fact been her primary postcode of choice, home to her film director husband, Irishman Pat O'Connor, and their two sons, Jack, 16, and Declan, 12. Wheredoes that leave an actress who was making an equal impression on film, in such diverse projects as The Abyss, Class Action, The January Man, and The Color of Money, for which she was a 1986 Academy Award nominee? Mostly these days being a mom, with occasional forays into the London theater. In 2004, she appeared at the Donmar as the elegantly past-her prime ballerina, Grushinskaya, in Michael Grandage's chamber-sized revival of Grand Hotel from the same composer, Maury Yeston, whose new show Death Takes A Holiday Mastrantonio last year workshopped in New York. Now she's a devastating force in Lindsay Posner's top-drawer revival of A View From the Bridge at the Duke of York's, playing the wife to Ken Stott's sexually riven Eddie Carbone. One recent morning, Mastrantonio took time out for a friendly, freewheeling chat about playing Italian as opposed to being it, juggling motherhood and work, and the siren song still exerted by New York....
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