In the film adaptation of this book, Idgie and Ninny are indeed the same person. Ninny is trying to establish a deep connection to the Threadgoode family, otherwise her intimate knowledge does not quite make enough sense. She does not want Evelyn to figure out at the beginning of her tale that she is actually Idgie.

While her family hails from Virginia and Texas, she now lives in Hudson Valley, New York, with her husband and four children.

Mary Stuart Masterson’s stunt double actually quit the film when she heard she would be covered in bees, and the actress decided to do the scene herself. So that is actually Masterson reaching into that swarm of bees! Doug doesn’t remember her getting stung but couldn’t confirm it.

Mary Stuart Masterson did all of the bee stunts herself because her stunt double quit at the last minute. There really is a Whistle Stop Cafe that does indeed serve fried green tomatoes (among other Southern foods) just north of Macon Georgia. It is in the actual area where many of the scenes were filmed.

New York City, U.S. Mary Stuart Masterson (born June 28, 1966) is an American actress and director….Television.

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(CBS) – “Fried Green Tomatoes” actress Mary Stuart Masterson is four months pregnant with twins, her husband, “Army Wives” star Jeremy Davidson has revealed. The couple, who met in 2004 and married two years later, are already parents to a 17-month-son.

The book makes it clear that Ninny and Idgie are different people, as Ninny has died and Evelyn is visiting her grave when she finds the jar of honey and the note on Ruth’s tombstone. In the film adaptation of this book, Idgie and Ninny are indeed the same person.

Contrary to the ending of the movie, though, Idgie did not become Ninny Threadgoode, the Jessica Tandy character. Ninny married Idgie’s older brother, Cleo.

Daughter of writer/director/actor Peter Masterson and actress Carlin Glynn. She has received an Outer Critics’ Circle Award nomination (2003) for Best Supporting Actress in the new revival of the Broadway musical “Nine”. Was nominated for Broadway’s 2003 Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured Role – Musical) for a revival of “Nine The Musical.”

Sister of actress Alexandra Masterson and actor Peter Masterson. Listed as one of twelve “Promising New Actors of 1987” in John Willis’ Screen World, Vol. 39. Mary Stuart’s first significant on-screen line in The Stepford Wives (1975) was “Daddy, I just saw a man carrying a naked lady.”

Masterson was married to filmmaker Damon Santostefano from 2000 to 2004. In 2006, Masterson married actor Jeremy Davidson (born Jeremy Michael Greenberg) after they starred together in the 2004 stage production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

In 2006, Masterson married actor Jeremy Davidson (born Jeremy Michael Greenberg) after they starred together in the 2004 stage production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Masterson gave birth to their first child, a son named Phineas Bee Greenberg, on October 11, 2009.