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Maria Berenson (born February 15, 1946) is an American actress and model.

Maria Berenson is the elder daughter of Robert L. Berenson, a U.S. diplomat of Lithuanian Jewish descent whose original family name was Valvrojenski.^{[citation needed]} Her mother is Countess Maria Luisa Yvonne Radha de Wendt de Kerlor, better known as Gogo Schiaparelli, a socialite of Italian, Swiss, French, and Egyptian ancestry.^{[citation needed]} (She is now Marchesa Cacciapuoti di Giugliano). Her maternal grandmother was the fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, and her sister was the model, actress, and photographer Berry Berenson. Berenson also is a great-great-niece of Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer who believed he had discovered the supposed canals of Mars, a great-great-niece of art expert Bernard Berenson (1865 – 1959), and a great-great-niece of Senda Berenson (1868 – 1954), an athlete and educator who was one of the first two women elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.^{[citation needed]}

Known for her beauty as much as for her acting ability,^{[citation needed]} Berenson has appeared in distinctive roles, including Frau von Aschenbach in Luchino Visconti's 1971 film Death in Venice, the Jewish department store heiress Natalia Landauer in the 1972 film Cabaret, and the apathetic beauty Lady Lyndon in the 1975 Stanley Kubrick film Barry Lyndon. She has appeared in a number of other movies, most of them filmed in Europe, where she is based, as well as in made-for-TV movies in the United States. Appeared on the July 1970 front cover of Vogue Magazine with Helmut Berger

She has been married and divorced twice, to rivet manufacturer James Randall (by whom she has a daughter, Starlite Melody Randall, 1977-) and lawyer Aaron Richard Golub. She has also been linked to actor Helmut Berger

• Marisa Berenson at the Internet Movie Database