Mariann Mayberry Explained

Mariann Mayberry
Birth Date:	May 25, 1965
Birth Place:	Springfield, Missouri, U.S.
Death Place:	Simsbury, Connecticut, U.S.
Occupation:	Actress
Alma Mater:	Illinois Wesleyan University

Mariann Mayberry (May 25, 1965 – August 1, 2017) was an American television and stage actress.

Biography

In 1993, Mayberry became an ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois. While at Steppenwolf, she was nominated for a Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Supporting Role in a Play for Time of My Life, and again for Actress in a Principal Role in a Play for Hysteria, directed by John Malkovich.

In 2006, Mayberry married fellow actor Scott Jaeck, with whom she shared the stage in the Broadway run of Tracy Letts' Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning play .^[1]

Later years and death

In early 2013, Mayberry was diagnosed with ovarian cancer.^[2]

In August 2015, after a run of Grand Concourse, Mayberry retired from the stage.^[2] On August 1, 2017, aged 52, Mayberry died of ovarian cancer at her sister (Melissa Hollander)'s home in Simsbury, Connecticut. At the time, Mayberry lived in New York with her husband of 11 years, actor Scott Jaeck.^[3]

The Steppenwolf Theatre cancelled that night's show as a gesture of respect.^[4]

Filmography

• Under the Influence (1994)
• Tangled (1997) as JC
• Since You've Been Gone (1998) (TV) as Chelsea Trotman
• as Candy Forrester (1 episode, 2002)
• The Pennsylvania Miners' Story (2002) (TV) as Cathy Hileman
• The Company (2003) as stepmother
• Life Sentence (2004) as Maddie
• War of the Worlds (2005) as mother
• Kubuku Rides (This Is It) (2006) as bar maid
• (2006) as Monica Corbett
• Delocated as therapist (1 episode, 2009)
• Handsome Harry (2009) as Judy Rheems
• Dogman (2012) as wife
• Dogman 2 (2013) as wife
• Blue Bloods (2015) in the episode 'Sins of the Father' (Season 5 - Episode 10) as Janice Phillips, the mother

Theatre

Steppenwolf Theatre Company

• The Geography of Luck (1989)
• Wrong Turn at Lungfish (1990)
• Ghost in the Machine (1993)
• Time of My Life (1995)
• As I Lay Dying (1995)
• Slavs! (1995)
• Everyman (A Moral Play) (1995)
• The Libertine (1996)
• Time to Burn (1997)
• Space (1997)
• A Fair Country (1998)
• The Berlin Circle (1998)
• Hysteria (1999)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (2000)
• Cross-Town Traffic (2000)
• David Copperfield (2001)
• Wendall Greene (2002)
• The Pain and the Itch (2005)
• Last of the Boys (2005)
• Love Song (2006)
• The Diary of Anne Frank (2007)
• August: Osage County (2007)
• Good People (2012)
• The MArch (2012).... Mattie
• Grand Concourse (2015)

Other

• The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Goodman Theatre
• The Odyssey, Goodman Theatre
• Mirror of the Invisible World, Goodman Theatre
• How I Learned to Drive, Northlight Theater and Alliance Theatre
• Metamorphoses, Lookingglass Theatre
• Argonautika, Lookingglass Theatre
• The Master and Margarita, Lookingglass Theatre
• Proof, Virginia Stage Company
• The Time of Your Life, Seattle and San Francisco Theatres

External links

• Mariann Mayberry profile, steppenwolf.org; accessed October 14, 2017.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Dee Pelletier and Scott Jaeck Join August: Osage County. Broadway.com. 14 October 2017.
2. News: Chicago actress Mariann Mayberry is dead at 52. Chicago Tribune. 2017-08-01. Jones, Chris. 2017-08-01.
3. Web site: 'Funny, strong' Steppenwolf actress Mariann Mayberry dies at 52. Chicago.suntimes.com. August 2017. 14 October 2017.
4. Web site: Steppenwolf Theatre mourns longtime ensemble member Mariann Mayberry. Barbara. Vitello. Daily Herald. 2017-08-01. 14 October 2017.