B. D. Hyman
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B. D. Hyman aka B.D. Merrill, is an American
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 author
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 and pastor
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.

Hyman was born in Santa Ana, California
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, the daughter of the actress Bette Davis
Bette Davis
Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television and theater. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional...

 and artist William Sherry. She was adopted by Davis's husband, Gary Merrill
Gary Merrill
Gary Fred Merrill was an American film and television character actor whose credits included more than fifty feature films, a half-dozen mostly short-lived TV series, and dozens of television guest appearances....

, in 1950. She took back her own last name--Sherry--upon turning sixteen, claiming that she wished to distance herself from Merrill. She appeared briefly as an infant in her mother's film Payment on Demand
Payment on Demand
Payment on Demand is a 1951 drama film directed by Curtis Bernhardt. The screenplay by Bernhardt and Bruce Manning chronicles a marriage from its idealistic early days to its dissolution.-Plot synopsis:...

(1951). Under the stage name B.D. Merrill she played a minor role as the next door neighbor's daughter in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (film)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is a 1962 American psychological thriller film produced and directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. The screenplay by Lukas Heller is based on the novel of the same name by Henry Farrell...

(1962), which starred her mother and was produced by Seven Arts Productions.

She married Seven Arts Films executive Jeremy Hyman, whom she met on a blind date for the film's showing at the Cannes Film Festival. The couple wed when B.D. was sixteen years old. Bette Davis
Bette Davis
Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television and theater. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional...

 publicly supported her daughter's controversial "under age" marriage. B.D. and her husband have two sons.

Hyman is the author of two books which are highly critical of her mother, My Mother's Keeper
My Mother's Keeper
My Mother's Keeper is a 1985 book by B. D. Hyman, daughter of legendary film star Bette Davis, which recounts her view of their mother/daughter relationship.-Overview:...

(1985) and Narrow Is the Way (1987). My Mother's Keeper brought Hyman considerable condemnation for the timing of its publication since Davis had suffered a stroke—unconnected to the book since Davis knew nothing about it—during the book's publication process; the matter was, however, legally out of Hyman's hands by that time. My Mother's Keeper was a best-seller; the second book, however, did not generate the same level of interest.

A born-again Christian, Hyman is the head of her own ministry and pastor of her church based in Charlottesville, Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia
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. She has also written three books that were published by her ministry: Oppressive Parents: How to leave them and love them (1992), The Church is Not the Bride (2000), The Rapture, the Tribulation, and Beyond (2002).

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