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She was hired to play a girl with stringy, unattractive hair, and Farrah Fawcett was hired to play a girl with thick, bouncy hair. Marshall first appeared on a television commercial for Head and Shoulders beautifying shampoo.

In 1967, she moved to Los Angeles to join her older brother Garry, a writer whose credits at the time included TV's The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966).Ĭareer Marshall with Cindy Williams in a publicity photo for Laverne & Shirley, 1976 During this period, Marshall worked various jobs to support herself, including working as a choreographer for the Albuquerque Civic Light Opera Association. The couple divorced three years later in 1966. While at UNM, Marshall became pregnant with daughter Tracy Reiner (née Tracy Henry), and soon after married the father, Michael Henry, in 1963. She graduated from Walton High School, a public girls' high school in New York and then went to University of New Mexico for 2 1⁄ 2 years where she studied math and psychology. She began her career as a tap dancer at age three, and later taught tap at her mother's dance school. She grew up at 3235 Grand Concourse, the Bronx, in a building which was also the childhood home of Neil Simon, Paddy Chayefsky, Calvin Klein, and Ralph Lauren. If she hadn't needed performance space, we wouldn't have bothered.' Garry was christened Episcopalian, Ronny was Lutheran, and Penny was confirmed in a Congregational Church, because ' sent us anyplace that had a hall where she could put on a recital.

Religion played an odd role in the Marshall children's lives. Penny's father was of Italian descent, his family having come from Abruzzo, and her mother was of German, English, and Scottish descent Marshall's father changed his surname from Masciarelli to Marshall before she was born. Her middle name was selected because her older sister Ronny, wanting a horse, was saving pennies their mother chose the middle name in an attempt to console Ronny. Penny's birth name, Carole, was selected because her mother's favorite actress was Carole Lombard. She had a brother, actor/director/TV producer Garry Marshall and a sister, television producer Ronny Hallin. Marshall (né Masciarelli), a director of industrial films and later a producer.

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She also produced Cinderella Man (2005) and Bewitched (2005), and directed episodes of the television series According to Jim and United States of Tara.Ĭarole Penny Marshall was born in the Bronx, New York City, on October 15, 1943, to Marjorie Irene (née Ward), a tap dance teacher who ran the Marjorie Marshall Dance School, and Anthony W. Her subsequent directing credits included Awakenings (1990), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, A League of Their Own (1992), Renaissance Man (1994), The Preacher's Wife (1996) and Riding in Cars with Boys (2001). Marshall made her directorial debut with Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986) before directing Big (1988), which became the first film directed by a woman to gross more than $100 million at the U.S. She is known for her role as Laverne DeFazio on the television sitcom Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983), receiving three nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy for her portrayal. Carole Penny Marshall (October 15, 1943 – December 17, 2018) was an American actress, director and producer.