Marianna Hill is a retired American actress who predominantly worked in American television and is known for her starring role in the feature western film High Plains Drifter as well as many roles on television series in the 1960s and 1970s. She was sometimes credited as Mariana Hill.
Early years
Hill was born in Santa Barbara, California to architect Frank Schwarzkopf and writer Mary Hawthorne Hill, who worked as a script doctor. Retired United States Army GeneralNorman Schwarzkopf Jr. was a cousin. Her father, a building contractor, worked in several countries, which resulted in Hill's education in California, Spain, and Canada. During her teenage years her family settled in southern California when her father purchased a restaurant there.
Career
Hill's initial acting experience came when she was an apprentice at the Laguna Playhouse. She then worked three summers at the La Jolla Playhouse and later gained more experience at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre. She was a life member of The Actors Studio as of January 1980. She adopted her mother's surname as her professional surname. She has appeared in more than 70 films and television episodes. Her film debut came in Married Too Young. She played Gabrielle in the Howard Hawks film, Red Line 7000 and co-starred in the Elvis Presley film Paradise, Hawaiian Style ; the Haskell Wexler cult classic political filmMedium Cool ; the western El Condor ; the Clint Eastwood film High Plains Drifter as Callie Travers; and in The Godfather Part II as Deanna Dunn-Corleone. Hill guest-starred in several 1960s sitcoms, including My Three Sons,Hogan's Heroes and Love American Style, as well as in the original ' series and Perry Mason. She guest-starred in Bonanza, Death Valley Days, The High Chaparral, Gunsmoke, The Wild Wild West, The F.B.I., ', Quincy, M.E., S.W.A.T., Kung Fu, The Outer Limits, Mannix, Batman, Daniel Boone, The Tall Man and the first pilot movie for Harry O. Hill's final TV guest appearance was in a 1984 episode of Remington Steel. After moving to New York to teach at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, Hill moved to England in 1988 to teach at The Lee Strasberg Studio in London. She remained there until its closure in 2001. Hill continued to teach at The Method Studio in London, and made an appearance in the 2005 British film , a part she got through the association of one of her students with the film's writer and director Dina Jacobsen. Her last American film was Chief Zabu which was filmed on the campus of Bard College in New York in 1986. The film was not released until 2016. In a rare public appearance Hill attended the premier of the movie at the 2016 Fort Lauderdale Film Festival. Hill lives in London and still teaches acting privately and at acting workshops. She is scheduled to make an appearance at the Destination Star Trek Germany convention in late 2020.
