Louise Lasser Louise Lasser Louise Lasser (born April 11, 1939) is an American actress and television writer. She is known for her portrayal of the title character on the soap opera satire "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman". She was married to Woody Allen and appeared in several of his early films. Lasser was born in New York City, the daughter of Paula and S. Jay Lasser, a tax expert. Her family is Jewish. She studied political science at Brandeis University. Lasser was the understudy for Barbra Streisand in the Broadway musical "I Can Get It for You Wholesale". She also appeared on the
Lily Bristow Mummery later forbade her husband from climbing with Bristow, since Bristow did not accompany him on any of his 1894 expeditions, and there are no records of Bristow continuing her climbing career following his death on Nanga Parbat in 1895. Elisa Kay Sparks has speculated that Lily Briscoe, a character in Virginia Woolf's novel "To the Lighthouse", was named after Bristow. Lily Bristow Emily Caroline "Lily" Bristow (1864–1935) was an English mountaineer who made numerous ascents in the Swiss Alps with Albert F. Mummery in the 1890s. Little is known of Bristow's early life, but she made her first significant