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Berinthia "Berry" Berenson (a.k.a. Berry Perkins), (14 April 1948–11 September 2001), was an American photographer, actress, and model who was also known as the wife of actor Anthony Perkins. Berinthia Berenson was the younger daughter of Robert L. Berenson, an American diplomat turned shipping executive, who was of Lithuanian Jewish descent; his family`s original surname was Valvrojenski. Her mother was born Countess Maria Luisa Yvonne Radha de Wendt de Kerlor, better known as Gogo Schiaparelli, a socialite of Italian, Swiss, French, and Egyptian ancestry. Following a brief modeling career in the late 1960s, Berenson became a freelance photographer. By 1973, her photographs had been published in Life, Glamour, Vogue and Newsweek. She also appeared in several motion pictures, including Cat People, with Malcolm McDowell. She starred opposite Anthony Perkins in the 1978 Alan Rudolph film Remember My Name and opposite Jeff Bridges in the 1979 film Winter Kills.

On 9 August 1973, in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Berenson married the actor Anthony Perkins. They had two sons: the actor-musician Oz Perkins (born 2 February 1974) and the folk/rock singer-songwriter Elvis Perkins (born 9 February 1976). They remained married until Perkins` death of AIDS on 12 September 1992. Berenson died at age 53 in the 11 September 2001, terrorist attack on American Airlines Flight 11. She was returning to her California home following a holiday on Cape Cod.

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