Birthday: February 16, 1954 in Portland, Oregon, USA
Birth Name: Margot Louise Hemingway
Height: 183 cm
Born in Portland, Oregon, she grew up in on a farm in Ketchum, Idaho. But dad was Jack Hemingway, son of the Nobel prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway and, with that heritage, fame was almost foreordained. By the time she was 21, after the lead in the rape melodrama Viol et châtiment (1976), she had a budding movie career, a $1 million ...
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Born in Portland, Oregon, she grew up in on a farm in Ketchum, Idaho. But dad was Jack Hemingway, son of the Nobel prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway and, with that heritage, fame was almost foreordained. By the time she was 21, after the lead in the rape melodrama Viol et châtiment (1976), she had a budding movie career, a $1 million promotional contract with Faberge perfume, and her face on magazine covers around the world. But, within the decade, it was all lost. Her sister Mariel Hemingway, whose role in Viol et châtiment (1976) had been suggested by Margaux, was a much greater success. Margaux had started drinking heavily; two marriages had failed. In 1988, she checked herself into the Betty Ford Center for rehabilitation. Attempts to parley her recovery from alcohol into a revived career failed and, by the time she was 41, almost nothing was left. She lived alone in a studio apartment, no children, no lover, few friends. Neighbors informed police that she had not been seen for days and, on July 1, they entered through a 2nd-floor window. Dental records had to be used to confirm her identity. Show less «
I loved to dance and went to Studio 54 at least twice a week. But I always felt nervous around the p...Show more »
I loved to dance and went to Studio 54 at least twice a week. But I always felt nervous around the people there. I was in awe of that whole Halston-Liza Minnelli crowd. To me, they were the real celebrities and I was just a girl from Idaho. So I drank to loosen up. I never thought then that alcohol would become a problem. In my grandfather's time it was a virtue to be able to drink a lot and never show it. And like him, I wanted to live life to the fullest, with gusto. (People Magazine interview, 1988) Show less «
I think it's a celebration of my rebirth, I think it's one of the most positive things I've ever don...Show more »
I think it's a celebration of my rebirth, I think it's one of the most positive things I've ever done. (After posing nude for Playboy in 1990) Show less «
I am not a Hemingway aficionado. (On admitting her limited knowledge of Ernest Hemingway's literatur...Show more »
I am not a Hemingway aficionado. (On admitting her limited knowledge of Ernest Hemingway's literature) Show less «
For a time, I was living the life of Ernest Hemingway.
For a time, I was living the life of Ernest Hemingway.