Trivia

Childhood sweetheart of folk singer/filmmaker Harry Chapin.

Best known by the public for her role as Mary Bland in the black comedy Eating Raoul (1982).

Auditioned for the role of Captain Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager (1995).

Interviewed in the book "Invasion of the B-Girls" by Jewel Shepard.

She remained at the Factory while her classmates went back to Cornell University without her. When she returned to Cornell, she began taking the Greyhound bus to New York as often as possible. She eventually left Cornell permanently when Andy Warhol invited her on a trip to California with other Factory regulars in 1966.

Woronov played the mother of the character played by Mike Muir (of the hardcore punk group Suicidal Tendencies) in the 1982 video 'Institutionalized'. She later appeared in the band's music video for the song "Possessed To Skate" (1987).

Appeared with Paul Bartel in ten films: Death Race 2000 (1975), Cannonball! (1976), Hollywood Boulevard (1976), Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979), Eating Raoul (1982), Get Crazy (1983), Chopping Mall (1986), Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989), The Living End (1992) and Acting on Impulse (1993).

Attended and graduated from Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn, New York in 1962.

Currently lives in Los Angeles, California acting, writing and painting (2002). She is also a graduate writing instructor at Otis College of Art and Design. Her independent film, The New Women (2001) (directed by Todd Hughes) opened in Canada on March 15, 2002.

Appeared with Dick Miller in eight films: Cannonball! (1976), Hollywood Boulevard (1976), The Lady in Red (1979), Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979), Get Crazy (1983), Chopping Mall (1986) Motorama (1991) and Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003).