Brearley School - Notable Alumnae

Notable Alumnae

  • Abiola Abrams, feminist filmmaker, author, and television personality.
  • Blue Balliett, author of Chasing Vermeer
  • Anne Baxter, actor
  • Mary Ellin Barrett, novelist
  • Mary Catherine Bateson, writer and anthropologist
  • Jenny Bicks, screenwriter, most famous for What a Girl Wants and Sex and the City
  • Mary Steichen Calderone, physician and public-health advocate
  • Oona, Lady Chaplin (née O'Neill), actor
  • Lucinda Childs, dancer and choreographer
  • Jill Clayburgh, actor
  • Emily Cross, athlete, silver medalist in fencing at the 2008 Summer Olympics
  • Alexandra Daddario, actor, best known for Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.
  • Anne d'Harnoncourt, museum director
  • Elizabeth Fishel, journalist and writer, in 2000 published a book profiling 10 of her Brearley classmates from the class of 1968, Reunion: The Girls We Used to Be, the Women We Became
  • Lacey Fosburgh, journalist and author, best known for Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar Murder
  • Virginia Kneeland Frantz, pathologist, pioneer in the study of pancreatic tumors
  • Virginia Gildersleeve, academic and statesperson
  • Jane Ginsburg. law professor and daughter of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  • Betsy Gotbaum, Public Advocate for the City of New York
  • Isca Greenfield-Sanders, artist and daughter of Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
  • Nora Johnson, novelist, best known for The World of Henry Orient
  • Caroline Kennedy, author and philanthropist
  • Téa Leoni, actor
  • Ruth Messinger, New York City mayoral candidate and Manhattan Borough President
  • Sara Moulton, chef, author and television personality
  • Leigh Nisonson, artist
  • Diane Paulus, Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University
  • Mary Rodgers, children's author and composer, daughter of composer Richard Rodgers
  • Anne Roiphe, journalist, novelist and early feminist
  • Katie Roiphe, author and feminist
  • Niki de Saint Phalle, artist
  • Mary Louise Perlman, musician (née Platt)
  • Dorothy Schiff, publisher of the New York Post
  • Kyra Sedgwick, actor
  • Maggie Shnayerson, journalist and blogger
  • Kim Stolz, fashion model and television personality, contestant on America's Next Top Model
  • Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, film director and producer
  • Erica Wagner, literary editor for The Times
  • Katharine Weymouth, publisher of The Washington Post
  • Flora Payne Whitney, patron of the arts
  • Hope Williams, actor
  • Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, co-founder of Gilt Groupe and author of "By Invitation Only"

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