Louise Lasser role in Darren Aronofsky's film "Requiem for a Dream" (2000), and co-starred with Renée Taylor in "National Lampoon's Gold Diggers" (2003). Lasser acted in two episodes of HBO's "Girls" as a Manhattan artist for the series' 3rd season (2014). She is a member of faculty at HB Studio, where she teaches acting technique. She was married to Woody Allen from 1966 to 1970. She currently lives in Manhattan. 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,
Gas-s-s-s ahead, write something, just keep the title."" "Gas-s-s-s" was an idea of Corman's, about a world where everybody over thirty had died. Corman later said "my first thought was to do a science fiction film with allegorical overtones." Armitage remembers the concept just being "a sentence, and that's what we went with ... He let you make it your own, and I did." Corman said that although "there was some good work in" Armitage's first draft, "the points I was trying to make in the script either did not come through or came through too obviously different parts, and it