Background
Mary Louise Weller was born in New York City and was raised in Los Angeles" Westwood area.
Mary Louise Weller was born in New York City and was raised in Los Angeles" Westwood area.
She is perhaps best known for her role as Mandy Pepperidge in the popular 1978 film Animal House. She has also guest-starred in such television series as Starsky & Hutch, Fantasy Island, Bachelor of Journalism and the Bear, Supertrain, and CHiPs as well as appearing in Larry Cohen"s cult classic film, Q.
The onetime top New York model made her film debut with an uncredited role in the 1973 First Rate (at Lloyd's) Pacino cop drama Serpico. After Animal House Weller went on to appear in such films as The Bell Jar, Forced Vengeance, and Q - The Winged Serpent.
She acted in several plays in New York and wrote the play Four Alone, which was performed at the Greenhouse Theater in Pasadena.
Moreover, Mary Louise trained with the United States. 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 2003 book Dancing at Ciro"son As of 2007, Weller is retired from acting.
According to Dancing at Ciro"s, Mary Louise Weller is of Lithuanian Jewish descent.