Justine Bateman

Justine Bateman, born in Rye in 1966, is an American actress, filmmaker and author who first became known as a teenager for playing Mallory Keaton on the sitcom Family Ties from 1982 to 1989. She hosted Saturday Night Live in 1988 and took the lead in Satisfaction (1988), performing vocals on its soundtrack. Later television work included the NBC comedy Men Behaving Badly and recurring roles on Men in Trees, Still Standing and Desperate Housewives. She appeared in films such as The Night We Never Met and The TV Set, and acted in web series including Easy to Assemble, for which she was among the winners of a Streamy Award for Best Ensemble Cast. Bateman wrote and directed the short Five Minutes and made her feature directing debut with Violet, which premiered at SXSW in 2021. She is also the author of Fame: The Hijacking of Reality and Face: One Square Foot of Skin.