He is the son of Italian cooking doyenne Marcella Hazan and wine expert Victor Hazan. She was also known as Boston's Modernist Doyenne. The social historian John Burnett called her "the doyenne of writers on domestic economy". In time, she became the doyenne of the gharana. A doyenne of Kathak, she was an acclaimed performer and teacher. "The Guardian" called her "internationally acclaimed as the doyenne of lighting design". "The New York Times" described her as "the undisputed doyenne of war correspondents". Wessely, by then undisputed doyenne of the Burgtheater, retired at the age of 80. Jain has been called a "data doyenne" by "Fortune". She has been described as "the doyenne of political theatre of the 1980s and 1990s". Time Out New York" described her as an "English garage rock doyenne. In 2004, she was described as a "doyenne" of disability rights. In 2019, Masar co-founded Doyenne Sport, an agency for female footballers. She often played a willful woman of means or a polished, high-society doyenne.