Mary Harron Biography

Fast Facts

• At the 2005 Provincetown International Film Festival, she won the Filmmaker on the Edge Award
• Received her education at St․ Anne's College, Oxford University
• Participated in the 1970s punk scene in America, working for "Punk" magazine as a music journalist and interviewing the Sex Pistols for the first time for an American publication
• Worked as a drama critic for "The Observer" and a music critic for "The Guardian" and "The New Statesman" during the 1980s
• Quote: "Punk rock, when I was a part of it, was called 'the underground․' There was something very attractive in all the hidden places․ The hidden histories․"
• Several of her films are adaptations of novels, most notably "American Psycho," which generated controversy due to its graphic nature but achieved cult status in the years after its release
• Two of her feature length films around about controversial female figures, Valerie Solanas who attempted to assassinate Andy Warhol and Bettie Page, who was targeted in a Senate investigation of pornography