Berinthia (Berry) Berenson (aka Berry Perkins), (April 14, 1948 – September 11, 2001), was an American model, actress and photographer. She was best known as the wife of actor Anthony Perkins, from 1973 until his death in 1992. She is the mother of actor-musician Oz Perkins and folk singer-songwriter Elvis Perkins. April 14 is the 104th day of the year (105 in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 261 days remaining. ... Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... This article is about the date September 11 in general. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Anthony Perkins Anthony Perkins (April 4, 1932–September 12, 1992) was an American actor best known for his role as the serial killer Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcocks Psycho. ... Osgood Oz Perkins (born February 1974 in New York) is a American actor, the son of American actors Anthony Perkins (of Psycho fame) and Berry Berenson and the brother of musician Elvis Perkins. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Following a brief modelling career, Berenson had a number of minor roles in big budget movies, including Cat People with Malcolm McDowell, before starring opposite Jeff Bridges in Remember My Name. She then developed a career in photography, shooting many photos for the covers of Life magazine, as well as fashion pictures for Vogue magazine. Cat People is a 1982 horror film directed by Paul Schrader and starring Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, and John Heard. ... Malcolm McDowell (born June 13, 1943) is an English actor. ... Jeff as The Dude in The Big Lebowski. ... A cover of Life Magazine from 1911 Life has been the name of two notable magazines published in the United States. ... For other meanings, see vogue. ...

She died at age 53 in the September 11, 2001 attacks on board American Airlines flight 11. She had been returning from a holiday on Cape Cod to her California home. A sequential look at United Flight 175 crashing into the south tower of the World Trade Center The September 11, 2001 attacks (often referred to as 9/11—pronounced nine eleven or nine one one) consisted of a series of coordinated terrorist[1] suicide attacks upon the United States, predominantly... Flight 11 redirects here. ... Cape Cod and Cape Cod Bay from space. ...

She was the younger daughter of Robert L. Berenson, a U.S. diplomat of Lithuanian-Jewish descent whose original family name was Valvrojenski. Her mother was Countess Maria Luisa Yvonne Radha de Wendt de Kerlor, better known as Gogo Schiaparelli, a socialite of Italian, Swiss, French, and Egyptian ancestry. (She is now Marchesa Cacciapuoti di Giugliano). Berry Berenson's maternal grandmother was the Paris fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, and her sister is the actress and model Marisa Berenson. On the cover of Time magazine: August 13, 1934. ... Marisa Berenson (born February 15, 1946) is an American actress and former model. ...

Berenson also was a great-great-niece of Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer who believed he had discovered the supposed canals of Mars, a great-great-niece of art expert Bernard Berenson (1865 – 1959), and a great-great-niece of Senda Berenson (1868 – 1954), an athlete and educator who was one of the first two women elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame. Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli (March 14, 1835 – July 4, 1910) was an Italian astronomer. ... For a time in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was believed that there were canals on Mars. ... Bernard Berenson in the garden of his estate Villa I Tatti in 1911 Bernard Berenson (born Bernhard Valvrojenski, June 26, 1865 – October 6, 1959), was an American art historian. ... Senda Berenson Abbott (b. ... The Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame honors players who have shown exceptional skill at basketball, all-time great coaches and referees, and other major contributors to the game. ...

See also

• Memorial to Berry Berenson on the September 11 wiki

External links

• CNN Showbiz Today—Cultural figures among the victims
• Berry Berenson at the Internet Movie Database