Mariette Hartley

Mary Loretta "Mariette" Hartley (born June 21, 1940) is an American, Emmy Award winning character actress.

Personal life

Hartley was born in Weston, Fairfield County, Connecticut, the daughter of Mary Ickes "Polly" (née Watson), a manager and saleswoman, and Paul Hembree Hartley, an account executive. Her maternal grandfather was John B. Watson, an American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism.

In 1960, Hartley married John Seventa but they divorced two years later. A second marriage to Patrick Boyriven on August 13, 1978 produced two children, Sean (born 1975) and Justine (born 1978). Hartley and Boyriven divorced in 1996 and Hartley later married Jerry Sroka in 2005.

In her 1990 autobiography Breaking the Silence, written with Anne Commire, Hartley talked about her struggles with psychological problems, pointing directly at Watson’s practical application of his theories as the source of the dysfunction in his family. She has also spoken in public about her experience of bipolar disorder and was a founder of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.