Mary Woronov

==Early life==

==Early life==

Woronov was born December 8, 1943, in the [[Breakers Hotel]] in [[Palm Beach, Florida]],{{efn|Some sources state Woronov was born in Brooklyn, New York;<ref name=quigley>{{cite book|title=International Television & Video Almanac|year=2007|page=497|publisher=Quigley Publishing Company|location=Groton, Massachusetts|edition=52nd|last=Quigley|first=Eileen S.|isbn= 978-0-900-61081-3}}</ref> though this is where Woronov was primarily raised, she has stated in personal interviews that she was actually born at the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida.<ref name=purple/><ref name=chainsaw>{{cite web|url=http://www.bizarremag.com/entertainment/interviews/146/mary_woronov.html |title=Mary Woronov. The Warhol cine-star and born again punk looks back in bemusement |work=Bizarre Mag |last=Chainsaw|first=Billy|date=August 2004 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100521052902/http://www.bizarremag.com/entertainment/interviews/146/mary_woronov.html |archive-date=May 21, 2010 }}</ref>}} while it was temporarily operating as the Ream General Hospital during [[World War II]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pbchistoryonline.org/page/us-military-in-palm-beach|title=U.S. Military in Palm Beach|publisher=pbchistoryonline.org|access-date=September 29, 2010}}</ref> Woronov was born [[Preterm birth|premature]] and doctors initially did not believe she would survive infancy.<ref name=chainsaw/> At a young age, she relocated with her mother to [[Brooklyn Heights]] in New York City, where her mother married Victor D. Woronov, a [[Jews|Jewish]] cancer surgeon in 1949; they settled as a family and her stepfather legally adopted her.<ref name=purple>{{cite magazine|last=Richardson|first=Terry|author-link=Terry Richardson|url=https://purple.fr/magazine/fw-2016-issue-26/mary-woronov/|magazine=[[Purple (magazine)|Purple]]|issn=1766-8832|language=en|issue=26|title=Mary Woronov: From Superstar to Anti-Star|date=2016|archive-date=March 11, 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230311210410/https://purple.fr/magazine/fw-2016-issue-26/mary-woronov/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=KCET/> She has one younger half-brother, Victor, who was born on her eighth birthday.<ref name=purple/>

Woronov was born December 8, 1943, in the [[Breakers Hotel]] in [[Palm Beach, Florida]],{{efn|Some sources state Woronov was born in Brooklyn, New York;<ref name=quigley>{{cite book|title=International Television & Video Almanac|year=2007|page=497|publisher=Quigley Publishing Company|location=Groton, Massachusetts|edition=52nd|last=Quigley|first=Eileen S.|isbn= 978-0-900-61081-3}}</ref> though this is where Woronov was primarily raised, she has stated in personal interviews that she was actually born at the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida.<ref name=purple/><ref name=chainsaw>{{cite web|url=http://www.bizarremag.com/entertainment/interviews/146/mary_woronov.html |title=Mary Woronov. The Warhol cine-star and born again punk looks back in bemusement |work=Bizarre Mag |last=Chainsaw|first=Billy|date=August 2004 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100521052902/http://www.bizarremag.com/entertainment/interviews/146/mary_woronov.html |archive-date=May 21, 2010 }}</ref>}} while it was temporarily operating as the Ream General Hospital during [[World War II]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pbchistoryonline.org/page/us-military-in-palm-beach|title=U.S. Military in Palm Beach|publisher=pbchistoryonline.org|access-date=September 29, 2010}}</ref> Woronov was born [[Preterm birth|premature]] and doctors initially did not believe she would survive infancy.<ref name=chainsaw/> At a young age, she relocated with her mother to [[Brooklyn Heights]] in New York City, where her mother married Victor D. Woronov, a [[Jews|Jewish]] cancer surgeon in 1949; they settled as a family and her stepfather legally adopted her.<ref name=purple>{{cite magazine|last=Richardson|first=Terry|author-link=Terry Richardson|url=https://purple.fr/magazine/fw-2016-issue-26/mary-woronov/|magazine=[[Purple (magazine)|Purple]]|issn=1766-8832|language=en|issue=26|title=Mary Woronov: From Superstar to Anti-Star|date=2016|archive-date=March 11, 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230311210410/https://purple.fr/magazine/fw-2016-issue-26/mary-woronov/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=KCET/> She has stated that she does not know the identity of her biological father.<ref>https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/artbound/mary-woronov-artist-chelsea-girl-and-b-movie-queen</ref> She has one younger half-brother, Victor, who was born on her eighth birthday.<ref name=purple/>

Woronov studied art and sculpting at [[Cornell University]], where she met and befriended artist [[Gerard Malanga]] in 1963.<ref name=artnet/><ref name=radar>{{cite news|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=An Under-the-Radar Warhol Alum, at One of Los Angeles's Coolest Galleries|last=Peasley|first=Aaron|date=August 4, 2016|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/04/t-magazine/art/mary-woronov-warhol-painter-lodge-gallery.html|archive-date=August 30, 2017|archive-url=https://archive.today/20170830204226/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/04/t-magazine/art/mary-woronov-warhol-painter-lodge-gallery.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

Woronov studied art and sculpting at [[Cornell University]], where she met and befriended artist [[Gerard Malanga]] in 1963.<ref name=artnet/><ref name=radar>{{cite news|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=An Under-the-Radar Warhol Alum, at One of Los Angeles's Coolest Galleries|last=Peasley|first=Aaron|date=August 4, 2016|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/04/t-magazine/art/mary-woronov-warhol-painter-lodge-gallery.html|archive-date=August 30, 2017|archive-url=https://archive.today/20170830204226/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/04/t-magazine/art/mary-woronov-warhol-painter-lodge-gallery.html|url-status=live}}</ref>