Penny Marshall

Carol Penny Marshall, born on 15 October, 1943 in Bronx, New York Click to look into! >> Read More... , USA is an American Director, Actress, and Producer. She started her career by doing minor roles in television after which she got her big break in the TV show ‘Laverne and Shirley’, which kicked off in 1976 and went on till 1983. This role won her nomination in the Golden Globes, thrice. Later on, she directed many well-liked movies and produced some box office biggies.

Her parents too were in the field of entertainment. Her mother Marjorie Irene taught Tap Dance and operated a school of dance by the name ‘Marjorie Marshal’. Her dad was Anthony Masciarelli who was also known by the name ‘Tony,’ and he later changed the name to Marshall. He was a director and producer. Famous TV actors, producers and directors, Garry Marshall Born on 13th November 1934, Garry Marshall's f >> Read More... and Tony Hallin are her siblings. Her patriarchal and matriarchal family has Scottish, Italian, German and English decent.

She has been learning Tap Dance from the age of 3 and went to teach in her mother’s dance school. She passed from the Walton High School and got her higher education from the University of New Mexico.. Then she shifted to LA to be with Garry Marshall, her sibling. Her career kicked off with working in TV commercials. She went on to experience many ups and downs in her career. Then she did a role which was not more than a guest role in the TV show ‘The Odd Couple’.

The role of her boyfriend in the show was acted by Rob Reiner, Penny’s ex-husband. In 1974, she starred in the show ‘Paul sand in friends and lovers’ as Janice Dreyfuss which was closed in the middle of the season. As the makers of ‘Paul Sand’ were also the makers of The Mary Tyler Moore show, they casted her in it for her excellent comic timing. She later acted in her brother’s show ‘ Happy Days Happy Days is a Telugu-language show on ETV Telegu >> Read More... ’ as a guest. She was seen along with Cindy Williams Also known as Cindy Williams, Cynthia Jane William >> Read More... in an episode and very luckily, the audience loved their pair as Lavern and Shirley and they together did five more episodes.

Based on their chemistry, her brother, Gary Marshall made a show, Lavern and Shirley which was an amazing success. It ran from 1976 to 1982. She also guest starred in the show ‘Taxi.’ After her success in this, she did the voice-over for the character of Ms. Botz in the popular show ‘Simpsons’ then she appeared as herself in series ‘ Entourage Click to look into! >> Read More... ’ which aired on HBO. She appeared with her brother in the movie ‘Hocus Pocus’ as a married couple. This was a Disney-Halloween movie.

In 2013 she teamed up with Cindy Williams to bring back the magic of Lavern and Shirley in the show Sam and Cat. After this, her directing career came into prominence. It had actually begun when she had done the direction of four episodes for her show Lavern and Shirley. Her first theatrical film was ‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash’ released in the year 1986 showcasing Whoopi Goldberg She is one of the few that gave us tremendous laug >> Read More... . After this, she went to direct super hit movies like ‘Big’ in 1988, with Tom Hanks I quote his famous line “Mama always said life was >> Read More... . This movie went on to become the highest money making movie ever made by a female, grossing more than 100 million USD.

Other movies like ‘Awakenings’ with Robert De Niro A legendary actor and one of the most influential >> Read More... and Robin Williams Robin Williams is a legendary actor and comedian. >> Read More... released in 1990, which won a nomination in the Academy Awards in the Best Film Category. Then came ‘A League Of Their Own’ with ‘ Madonna Madonna Louise Ciccone, best known worldwide as Ma >> Read More... ’, Tom Hanks, Geena Davis Geena Davis is an American model, former Archer, a >> Read More... and the 1991 movie, ‘The Preachers Wife’ with Whitney Houston “The Prominent Queen of Soul” and “The Voice” thes >> Read More... and Denzel Washington Born as Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. on December 2 >> Read More... . Penny directed the movie ‘Riding In Car With Boys’ in 2001 starring Drew Barrymore She first appeared in the Steven Spielberg’s movie >> Read More... . After this she moved to the field of producing movies.

Crystal Awards gave her the Women in Film honor in 1991. She went on to direct three of the episodes for the TV show, United States of Tara in 2010-11. She received the honor of Women of Vision from, Women in Film and Video in 2013. Penny declared the making of an autobiographical movie for the baseball star Effa Manely named ‘Effa’ In the year 2014. She married Micheal Henry in 1961 whom she had met in high school; their marriage ended after three years; and they gave birth to a daughter together by the name of Tracy.

A decade later she married director/actor Rob Reiner and he adopted Tracy and added his surname to her name. They broke up after 10 years. It was later seen that she was in a relationship with Art Garfunkel which also ended soon. She got lung cancer which eventually reached her brain; she revealed this in 2012 during her treatment. She is a collector of sports mementos. She has published a book in 2012 by name ‘My Mother Was Nuts’. She is survived by five of her grandchildren.