Brooke Hayward
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Brooke Hayward is an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 actress and writer.

Early life and career

Born in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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, Hayward is the eldest, and only surviving, child from the marriage of former agent turned film-, television-, and stage producer Leland Hayward
Leland Hayward
Leland Hayward was a Hollywood and Broadway agent and theatrical producer. He produced the original Broadway stage productions of Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific and The Sound of Music.-Early years:...

 and actress Margaret Sullavan
Margaret Sullavan
Margaret Brooke Sullavan was an American stage and film actress. Sullavan started her career on the stage in 1929. In 1933 she caught the attention of movie director John M. Stahl and had her debut on the screen that same year in Only Yesterday...

. Hayward's autobiography, Haywire
Haywire (book)
Haywire is a memoir by actress and writer Brooke Hayward , daughter of theatrical agent and producer Leland Hayward and actress Margaret Sullavan. It is a #1 New York Times Best Seller and was on the list for 17 weeks...

, was based on her experiences as a child with two world-famous and iconic parents. Margaret Sullavan died of an accidental drug overdose on January 1, 1960, aged 50. Nine months after her mother's death, Hayward's sister Bridget, aged 21, was herself found dead from an overdose. Hayward's younger brother, Bill, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on March 9, 2008.

Debuting in Burt Balaban's 1961 film, Mad Dog Coll, Hayward had a brief acting career. She made a memorable performance in the Twilight Zone
Twilight zone
-Television series and spinoffs:*The Twilight Zone, the anthology television series and its franchise:**The Twilight Zone , the 1959–1964 original television series***Twilight Zone: The Movie, a 1983 film based on the original series...

episode "The Masks
The Masks
-Synopsis:Jason Foster, a very wealthy old man, is dying. Cranky and candid, Jason is not cheered by a visit from his daughter Emily and her family—husband Wilfred, son Wilfred Jr., and daughter Paula. All four have various, terrible traits. Emily is a cowardly, self-centered hypochondriac who...

" in March 1964. Also, she played a seaship captain's daughter in one Bonanza
Bonanza
Bonanza is an American western television series that both ran on and was a production of NBC from September 12, 1959 to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 430 episodes, it ranks as the second longest running western series and still continues to air in syndication. It centers on the...

episode. Over the next 30 years, Hayward appeared in a handful of screen roles. Her last screen appearance was in a small role in John Guare
John Guare
John Guare is an American playwright. He is best known as the author of The House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation, and Landscape of the Body...

's 1993 film adaptation of Six Degrees of Separation
Six degrees of separation
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, with Stockard Channing
Stockard Channing
Stockard Channing is an American stage, film and television actress. She is known for her portrayal of First Lady Abbey Bartlet in the NBC television series The West Wing; for playing Betty Rizzo in the film Grease; and for her role as Ouisa Kittredge in the play Six Degrees of Separation and its...

, Donald Sutherland
Donald Sutherland
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, and Will Smith
Will Smith
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.

In 1977, Hayward wrote Haywire
Haywire (book)
Haywire is a memoir by actress and writer Brooke Hayward , daughter of theatrical agent and producer Leland Hayward and actress Margaret Sullavan. It is a #1 New York Times Best Seller and was on the list for 17 weeks...

, a childhood memoir that expounded on her family, the mental breakdown of her mother and sister, and her own personal demons.

Personal life

Hayward, whose famous stepmothers include Nancy, Lady Keith (aka Slim Keith
Slim Keith
Nancy "Slim" Keith, Lady Keith was a New York socialite and fashion icon during the 1950s and 1960s, exemplifying the American jet set...

) and Pamela Harriman
Pamela Harriman
Pamela Beryl Harriman , also known as Pamela Churchill Harriman, was an English-born socialite who was married and linked to important and powerful men. In later life, she became a political activist for the United States Democratic Party and a diplomat...

, was married to Michael M. Thomas from July 1956 until their July 1960 divorce; they had two children. Hayward later became the first wife of actor Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper
Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker and artist. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors' Studio. He made his first television appearance in 1954 and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant...

, they were married from August 1961 until 1969. That union produced a daughter, Marin Brooke Hopper, in June, 1962.

She has been married to Peter Duchin
Peter Duchin
-Life and career:Duchin was born in New York City, the son of pianist and band leader Eddy Duchin. His mother was Marjorie Oelrichs, a Newport, Rhode Island and New York City socialite who died unexpectedly when he was just five days old. He was raised by close family friends, statesman W...

 since 1985 - they met and began cohabiting in 1981. They separated in 2008. She divides her time between her loft
Loft
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 in Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...

 and her country house in Litchfield County, Connecticut
Litchfield County, Connecticut
Litchfield County is a county located in the northwestern corner of the U.S. state of Connecticut. Litchfield County has the lowest population density of any county in Connecticut but is geographically the state's largest county. As of 2010 the population was 189,927...

.

Hayward has three grandchildren: Anna and Cooper Thomas, and Violet Hayward Goldstone .

Brooke Hayward is a great-granddaughter of Monroe Hayward
Monroe Hayward
Monroe Leland Hayward was a Senator from Nebraska.-Biography:Hayward was born in Willsboro, New York. He served during the Civil War in the Twenty-second Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, and in the Fifth Regiment, New York Volunteer Cavalry. He graduated from Fort Edward Collegiate...

, former U. S. Senator from Nebraska, and a granddaughter of Colonel William Hayward, who led the United States' 369th Infantry Regiment, aka the "Harlem Hellfighters", the first regiment composed entirely of African-American soldiers during the First World War.

She is also a descendant of Mayflower
Mayflower
The Mayflower was the ship that transported the English Separatists, better known as the Pilgrims, from a site near the Mayflower Steps in Plymouth, England, to Plymouth, Massachusetts, , in 1620...

 passenger William White, and pilgrim Robert Coe
Robert Coe (colonist)
Robert Coe was an early English settler and the progenitor in New England of most of the Coes in America. Robert Coe was born at Thorpe-Morieux, in the county of Suffolk, England, and baptized in the ancient church there on October 26, 1596, as recorded in parish registers...

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