Mary Louise Weller (born September , ) is an American actress. She is
perhaps best known for her role as Mandy Pepperidge in the popular
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.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 Al Pacino cop drama Serpico. In
Weller starred as a beautiful marine biologist in the made-for-TV film
Hunters of the Reef (), and then as professor Andrew Prine's college
student lover in the haunted house horror film The Evil (). She
achieved perhaps her greatest enduring cult movie renown with her
performance as prissy and uptight sorority sister Mandy Pepperidge in
the hit comedy Animal House. After Animal House, Weller went on to
appear in such films as The Bell Jar (), Once Upon a Spy (), Forced
Vengeance (), Blood Tide () and Q ().Weller acted in several plays in
New York and wrote the play Four Alone, which was performed at the
Greenhouse Theater in Pasadena. She trained with the U.S. Equestrian
Team as a teenager and has participated in horse-riding competitions.
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 book
Dancing at Ciro's. As of , Weller is retired from acting.According to
Dancing at Ciro's, Mary Louise Weller is of Lithuanian Jewish descent.
perhaps best known for her role as Mandy Pepperidge in the popular
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.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 Al Pacino cop drama Serpico. In
Weller starred as a beautiful marine biologist in the made-for-TV film
Hunters of the Reef (), and then as professor Andrew Prine's college
student lover in the haunted house horror film The Evil (). She
achieved perhaps her greatest enduring cult movie renown with her
performance as prissy and uptight sorority sister Mandy Pepperidge in
the hit comedy Animal House. After Animal House, Weller went on to
appear in such films as The Bell Jar (), Once Upon a Spy (), Forced
Vengeance (), Blood Tide () and Q ().Weller acted in several plays in
New York and wrote the play Four Alone, which was performed at the
Greenhouse Theater in Pasadena. She trained with the U.S. Equestrian
Team as a teenager and has participated in horse-riding competitions.
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 book
Dancing at Ciro's. As of , Weller is retired from acting.According to
Dancing at Ciro's, Mary Louise Weller is of Lithuanian Jewish descent.
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