Barbies from the 1980s, photo © by Kathryn E. Darden
Marin Miller - Actress & Former Barbie Girl
Nashville actress Marin Miller loved to play with her Barbie dolls as a child, although as a youngster growing up in a theatre family her Barbie doll play might have been rather unique.
Marin Miller's Barbie Memories
Miller recently recalled some of her earliest Barbie memories while promoting "Steel Magnolias." Miller says she remembers being curled up on a blanket at the Tennessee Rep rehearsal studio while her parents, Mary Jane Harvill and the late Myke Mueller -- two of the founding actors of Tennessee Repertory Theatre, were in rehearsal.
Miller says, “When my parents were in rehearsal for Macbeth, my babysitter peaked her head around and looked in as I was quietly playing in my bedroom with my Barbies…specifically three Barbies around a cereal bowl, with me muttering wickedly, ‘Double double, toil and trouble….”
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Mary Jane and Marin, mid 1980s, photo from press kit, used with permission
Mother and Daughter to Appear on Stage for First Time Together in Steel Magnolias
Since then Marin Miller has become a professional actress herself, and for the first time in their careers, Marin will join her mother on the stage this October. The two generations of Tennessee Rep actresses will play mother and daughter when Tennessee Rep kicks off its 25th anniversary season with Robert Harling’s "Steel Magnolias." Miller will play “Shelby” to her mother Mary Jane Harvill’s “M’Lynn” in the Southern favorite that runs October 3 through 24 at TPAC’s Johnson Theater. Tickets starting at $41.50 and are on sale at the TPAC Box Offices and by phone or internet order at the following: (615) 782-4040 or www.tennesseerep.org.
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