Lucy Saroyan (January 17, 1946 â€" April 11, 2003) was an American
actress and photographer.Saroyan was born in San Francisco,
California, the daughter of the writer William Saroyan and the actress
Carol Grace. Her brother is writer Aram Saroyan. Lucy attended the
Dalton School in New York, her mother's alma mater, where Carol
solidified her lifelong friendships with Gloria Vanderbilt and Oona
O'Neill. She spent her adolescent summers at a horse camp in Montana.
Following her parents' second divorce, her mother married the actor
Walter Matthau and Lucy later worked alongside her stepfather in a
number of his films. She also played small parts on Broadway,
off-Broadway, and on TV, in addition to working as a film library
archivist. Her most notable film role was in Paul Schrader's Blue
Collar, in which she played Harvey Keitel's wife.The first exhibit of
Lucy Saroyan's posthumously discovered portraits of A-List Hollywood
and New York entertainment figures of the 1970s and 1980s opened at
the Craig Krull Gallery in Santa Monica on January 16, 2010. Her
portrait of Dennis Hopper was included in the 2009 retrospective
exhibit of Hopper's own photography in Paris and Australia.
actress and photographer.Saroyan was born in San Francisco,
California, the daughter of the writer William Saroyan and the actress
Carol Grace. Her brother is writer Aram Saroyan. Lucy attended the
Dalton School in New York, her mother's alma mater, where Carol
solidified her lifelong friendships with Gloria Vanderbilt and Oona
O'Neill. She spent her adolescent summers at a horse camp in Montana.
Following her parents' second divorce, her mother married the actor
Walter Matthau and Lucy later worked alongside her stepfather in a
number of his films. She also played small parts on Broadway,
off-Broadway, and on TV, in addition to working as a film library
archivist. Her most notable film role was in Paul Schrader's Blue
Collar, in which she played Harvey Keitel's wife.The first exhibit of
Lucy Saroyan's posthumously discovered portraits of A-List Hollywood
and New York entertainment figures of the 1970s and 1980s opened at
the Craig Krull Gallery in Santa Monica on January 16, 2010. Her
portrait of Dennis Hopper was included in the 2009 retrospective
exhibit of Hopper's own photography in Paris and Australia.
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