Known for:	Barry Lyndon, Cabaret, Death in Venice
Birth name:	Elsa Schiaparelli
Birthday:	15 February 1946, New York, New York, USA
Height:	5' 8" (1.73 m)
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Grandaughter of famous fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli. Sister of Berry Berenson. Aunt of actor Oz Perkins. Marisa's sister, actress/photographer Berry Berenson, was one of the 58 victims of the terrorist-hijacked plane that crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Sister-in-law of actor Anthony Perkins. Marisa and Jim Randall lived in a million-dollar mansion in Beverly Hills he bought from Debbie Reynolds. The house had a private movie theater with 35mm projectors fitted with Cinemascope lenses. It also included his and hers bathrooms, the floors and walls of which were marble and granite. It had three swimming pools with waterfalls one into the other on the side of a hill. It had a private barbershop with regulation barber chair, sauna and gym. The house was fitted with state-of-the-art security devices which included TV camera, motion detectors and wireless "panic buttons" which they carried with them in the house, and which were wired directly into the Beverly Hills Police Dept. A security guard lived on the premises and manned a control room in the basement where he monitored the TV cameras, etc. The wedding of Randall and Berenson was held in this house, and George Hamilton was Randall's best man. The reception turned into a brawl when some of the guests got into a fight. Before entering films, she was one of the top fashion models of the 1960s, a favorite at "Vogue". Measurements: 34B-23-35 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine) Her daughter, Starlite Randall, appears on the reality show Gastineau Girls on E! Is of Lithuanian, Italian, Egyptian, Swiss, and French ethnicity. Her father was Robert L. Berenson, a U.S. diplomat of Lithuanian-Jewish descent (original family name Valvrojenski). He was related to legendary art critic Bernard Berenson, an expert in Italian Renaissance. Her mother was Countess Marisa (aka "Gogo") de Wendt de Kerlor. Gogo was the daughter of Swiss-French Count William de Wendt de Kerlor and fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli . Born in Rome, Schiaparelli was of Italian and Egyptian stock. (Her great uncle was Giovanni Schiaparelli, an astronomer who discovered the canals of Mars). When Schiaparelli married Count William, they relocated to Greenwich Village where Gogo was born. He soon fled, and Elsa's career in fashion designing began. She was hugely successful in Paris, second only to Coco Chanel and she even collaborated with Salvador Dalí and Jean Cocteau . (Marisa herself maintained the tradition, becoming a top model in the 60s both in Europe and in New York). Has been close friends with Liza Minnelli since 1971.

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