Mary Louise Weller

Mary Louise Weller (born September 1, 1946) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Mandy Pepperidge in the popular 1978 film Animal House. She has also guest-starred in such television series as Starsky & Hutch, Fantasy Island, B.J. and the Bear, Supertrain, and CHiPs, as well as appearing in Larry Cohen's film, Q.[1]

Mary Louise Weller
Born (1946-09-01) September 1, 1946
New York City
OccupationActress, model
Notable work
National Lampoon's Animal House, Forced Vengeance

Life and career

Mary Louise Weller was born in New York City and was raised in Los Angeles's Westwood area. The onetime top New York model made her film debut with an uncredited role in the 1973 Al Pacino cop drama Serpico. In 1978 Weller starred as a beautiful marine biologist in the made-for-TV film Hunters of the Reef (1978), and then as professor Andrew Prine's college student lover in the haunted house horror film The Evil (1978). She achieved perhaps her greatest enduring cult movie renown with her performance as prissy and uptight sorority sister Mandy Pepperidge in the 1978 hit comedy Animal House.[2] After Animal House, Weller went on to appear in such films as The Bell Jar (1979), Once Upon a Spy (1980), Forced Vengeance (1982), Blood Tide (1982) and Q (1982).

Weller acted in several plays in New York and wrote the play Four Alone, which was performed at the Greenhouse Theater in Pasadena.[3] She trained with the U.S. Equestrian Team as a teenager and has participated in horse-riding competitions.[3] Weller tried to get a movie based on her own original script made about jockey Mary Bacon, but it never materialized. She's a first cousin to writer Sheila Weller, who mentioned Mary Louise in her 2003 book Dancing at Ciro's. As of 2007, Weller is retired from acting.[4][5]

According to Dancing at Ciro's, Mary Louise Weller is of Lithuanian Jewish descent.[6]

References
  1. Mary Louise Weller at IMDb
  2. Tate, James M. (May 15, 2012). "Mary Louise Weller Reflects Animal House". Cult Film Freak. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
  3. NANCY MILLS (August 10, 1986). "SUMMER STARS". Los Angeles Times (Home 4 ed.). p. 5 – via Los Angeles Times. (Document ID: 57998634).
  4. Biography for Mary Louise Weller at IMDb
  5. "'Animal House': Where are they now? – slide 6". Daily News. New York. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
  6. Weller, Sheila. Dancing at Ciro's. New York: St. Martin's, 2003.
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