Penny Marshall

Q: Did Penny Marshall win any awards during her career?

Yes, Penny Marshall received several awards, including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2004. She was also nominated for multiple Primetime Emmy Awards for her television work.

Q: What was Penny Marshall's first major acting role?

Penny Marshall's first major acting role was in the sitcom 'The Odd Couple,' where she played a waitress named Myrna. This role helped her gain recognition in the entertainment industry.

Q: How did Penny Marshall contribute to the film industry as a director?

Penny Marshall broke barriers for women in film by directing commercially successful movies like 'Big' and 'A League of Their Own.' She is celebrated for her ability to tell strong, character-driven stories.

Q: What was Penny Marshall's relationship with Rob Reiner?

Penny Marshall was married to Rob Reiner from 1971 to 1981. They remained friends after their divorce and both had successful careers in the entertainment industry.

Q: What is Penny Marshall's estimated net worth?

Penny Marshall's estimated net worth is around $45 million, reflecting her successful career as both an actress and a director.

Q: What are some key milestones in Penny Marshall's filmography?

Key milestones in Penny Marshall's filmography include her roles in 'Laverne & Shirley' and her directorial successes with films like 'Big' and 'A League of Their Own,' which have become classics.

Q: What legacy did Penny Marshall leave in Hollywood?

Penny Marshall left a lasting legacy as a pioneering female director and actress. Her work continues to inspire future generations of filmmakers and actors, particularly women in the industry.

Known for

Hocus Pocus (1993)

IMDb 6.9 / 10

1993 / Comedy, Family / 96 min

After 300 years of slumber, three sister witches are accidentally resurrected in Salem on Halloween night, and it is up to three kids and...

New Year’s Eve (2011)

IMDb 5.6 / 10

2011 / Comedy, Romance / 118 min

The lives of several couples and singles in New York intertwine over the course of New Year's Eve.

Name

Penny Marshall

Height

5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)

Born

15 October 1943, New York City, New York, USA

Spouses

Rob Reiner (1971–1981)

Children

1 child, Tracy Reiner

Parents

Marjorie Marshall, Anthony Marshall

Estimated Net Worth

$45 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2020	Movie Belushi Using previously unheard audiotapes recorded shortly after John Belushi’s death, director R.J. Cutler’s documentary feature examines the too-short life of...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2020	Movie The Happy Days of Garry Marshall In a heartfelt tribute to Hollywood legend Garry Marshall, his family and friends share their favorite memories of the creative...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2016	Movie Mother's Day Three generations come together in the week leading up to Mother's Day.	Opening Mom Narrator (voice)	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2015	Movie Going to America Two romantic and ambitious lunatics escape a mental institution with a video camera and set out to make a movie...	Herself - Famous Director	TMDB 4.0 / 10
2015	Movie Scooby-Doo! and KISS: Rock and Roll Mystery Get ready to Rock! Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. Gang team up with the one and only KISS in this...	The Elder (voice)	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2015	Movie Staten Island Summer Pals Danny and Frank spend the summer after high school working as lifeguards while figuring out their future.	Dolores	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2015	TV Celebrity Family Feud Celebrity Family Feud pits celebrities and their families against each other in a contest to name the most popular responses...	Self	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2015	TV The Odd Couple Oscar's life seems almost perfect...sure he's divorced and his apartment is a mess, but he's the host of a well-known...	Patty	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2014	TV Mulaney Set in New York, and based on the life and stand-up comedy of John Mulaney, this multi-camera laffer follows an...	Tutti	TMDB 4.1 / 10
2013	TV Hollywood Game Night Two contestants are transported from their everyday lives into a once-in-a-lifetime night of fun and celebration as they play party...	Self	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2013	TV Sam & Cat Sam Puckett is loud, independent, and tough as nails, while Cat Valentine is sweet as pie and super flighty. But...	Sylvia Burke	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2013	Movie If These Knishes Could Talk: The Story of the NY Accent The story of the New York accent, as told by New Yorkers.	Self	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2011	Movie New Year's Eve The lives of several couples and singles in New York intertwine over the course of New Year's Eve.	Penny Marshall	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2011	TV Portlandia Satirical sketch comedy set and filmed in Portland, Oregon that explores the eccentric misfits who embody the foibles of modern...	Barbara	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2011	Movie Classic TV Bloopers Uncensored A compilation of television's biggest and best stars as they are caught in hilarious moments while filming. See stars and...	Laverne (archive footage)	Not rated
2008	TV Shatner's Raw Nerve Shatner's Raw Nerve is a TV program on The Biography Channel. In it, William Shatner sits down with various celebrities...	Self	TMDB 4.0 / 10
2007	Movie Blonde Ambition A young professional woman unwittingly becomes the pawn of two business executives in their bid to oust the head of...	Bolo Executive	TMDB 4.4 / 10
2007	Movie Alice Upside Down Still mourning the death of her mother a few years back, Alice McKinley finds her life seriously disrupted when her...	Mrs. Plotkin	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2007	Movie Everybody Wants to Be Italian Are all relationships based on lies? Jake Bianski runs a fish market in north Boston, surrounded by Italians. For years,...	Teresa the Florist	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2007	TV On the Lot On the Lot is a short-lived reality show competition for filmmaking, produced by Steven Spielberg and Mark Burnett. The show,...	Unknown character	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2006	Movie Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters Hollywoods biggest talents explore what is the recipe for blockbuster, flops, and how absolute happenstance and controlled luck can make...	Self	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2006	Movie Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World To improve its relations with Muslim countries, the United States government sends comedian Albert Brooks to south Asia to write...	Penny Marshall	TMDB 4.9 / 10
2005	TV The Reichen Show A list of celebrity interviews and sensational topics.	Self - Guest	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2005	TV Bones Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains...	Penny Marshall	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2004	TV The Tony Danza Show The Tony Danza Show was a daytime variety talk show that premiered on September 13, 2004 in syndication and was...	Self - Guest	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2004	TV Entourage Film star Vince Chase navigates the vapid terrain of Los Angeles with a close circle of friends and his trusty...	Penny Marshall	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2004	Movie Stateside The film follows a rebellious teenager on leave from the Marines who falls in love with a female musician. The...	Lt. Chevetone	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2003	TV I'm with Her When everyman Patrick Owen is bitten by the easily-excited puppy of movie star Alexandra Young, he becomes an overnight sensation....	Unknown character	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2003	TV The Ellen DeGeneres Show The Ellen DeGeneres Show, often shortened to just Ellen, is an American television talk show hosted by comedian/actress Ellen DeGeneres.	Self	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2003	Movie ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration A retrospective of the 50-year history of the American Broadcasting Company, showcasing clips from past shows and current programs.	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1999	Movie Jackie's Back! A British documentarian profiles washed-up diva Jackie Washington as she prepares for her comeback concert.	Penny Marshall	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1996	TV The Rosie O'Donnell Show The Rosie O'Donnell Show was an American daytime television talk show hosted and produced by actress and comedian Rosie O'Donnell....	Self - Guest	TMDB 4.1 / 10
1996	TV Nash Bridges Fun-loving San Francisco Police Department investigator Nash Bridges is part of the elite Special Investigations Unit. He tackles crime using...	Iris Heller	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1995	Movie Get Shorty Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent to L.A. to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a...	Penny Marshall (uncredited)	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1995	Movie Cinefile: Reel Women Interviews with women directors working in Hollywood and Europe in the early 1990s, exploring the opportunities and obstacles that face...	Self	Not rated
1993	TV Intimate Portrait Intimate Portrait is a biographical television series on the Lifetime Television cable network focusing on different celebrities, which includes interviews...	Self	TMDB 4.5 / 10
1993	Movie The Odd Couple: Together Again Felix's daughter Edna is getting married, and his wife Gloria throws him out of the house for a few days,...	Myrna	TMDB 9.5 / 10
1993	TV Frasier After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a radio psychiatrist...	Celeste (voice)	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1993	Movie Hocus Pocus After 300 years of slumber, three sister witches are accidentally resurrected in Salem on Halloween night, and it is up...	The Master's Wife (uncredited)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1991	Movie The Hard Way Seeking to raise his credibility as an actor and to land a role as a tough cop on a new...	Angie	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1989	TV The Simpsons Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family;...	Lucille Botzcowski (voice)	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1988	Movie She's Having a Baby Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage...	Penny Marshall (uncredited)	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1987	Movie Citizen Steve On the occasion of the 40th birthday of the almighty filmmaker Steven Allan Spielberg, inquisitive reporter Clip Maxwell attempts to...	Self - Actress / Filmmaker	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1986	Movie Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary Some of the biggest stars in show business pay a fun tribute to Bugs Bunny and the rest of the...	Self	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1985	Movie Movers & Shakers Studio head Joe Mulholland promises his dying producer and mentor, Saul Gritz, to adapt a popular sex manual into a...	Reva	TMDB 3.9 / 10
1985	Movie Challenge of a Lifetime Nora Scoonover is 35, divorced, in debt and going nowhere when her 16 year-old son, Steven, runs away from camp...	Nora Schoonover	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1985	Movie Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers William Shatner, Liz Taylor and many more stars blow lines, lose their pants and more in this hilarious collection of...	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
1984	Movie Love Thy Neighbor When Danny’s wife and Linda’s husband run away together, the two neighbors form an unlikely bond.	Linda Wilson	TMDB 4.5 / 10
1982	TV The Mork & Mindy / Laverne & Shirley / Fonz Hour Mork & Mindy/Laverne & Shirley/Fonz Hour is a 1982 cartoon series produced by Hanna-Barbera and Ruby-Spears Productions in association with...	Laverne DeFazio (voice)	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1982	Movie Lily for President? Comedian Lily Tomlin stars in this comical farce which deals with her experiences running for the office of President of...	Laverne DeFazio	Not rated
1982	Movie Night of 100 Stars The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's...	Self	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1981	TV Laverne & Shirley in the Army Laverne & Shirley in the Army is a 1981 Hanna-Barbera cartoon series based on the TV show Laverne & Shirley,...	Laverne DeFazio	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1980	TV Bosom Buddies Kip and Henry, two young studs working for a New York ad agency, must disguise themselves as women to live...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1979	Movie 1941 In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing...	Miss Fitzroy (uncredited)	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1979	Movie Sitcom: The Adventures of Garry Marshall A day-in-the-life documentary with Garry Marshall. Marshall was an executive producer for ABC and was responsible for such hit shows...	Self	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1978	Movie More Than Friends Matty Perlman and Alan Corkus are old friends. He wants them to be more than friends. Sometimes she does too.	Maddy Perlman	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1978	TV Mork & Mindy A wacky alien comes to Earth to study its residents and the life of the human woman he boards with...	Laverne Defazio	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1978	TV Taxi Louie De Palma is a cantankerous, acerbic taxi dispatcher in New York City. He tries to maintain order over a...	Penny Marshall	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1977	Movie The Barry Manilow Special Join Barry "live" on-stage at Ravinia Music Festival in Chicago...and "live" on the streets of New York City with special...	Waitress	TMDB 8.3 / 10
1976	TV The Captain and Tennille Hosted by the chart-topping husband and wife team, this 1976-1977 television variety series features a mix of hit music and...	Self - Guest	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1976	TV Good Heavens Good Heavens was an ABC comedy anthology series produced by Columbia Pictures Television that aired between February 29 to June...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1976	TV Laverne & Shirley Best friends, roommates, and polar opposites, Laverne DeFazio and Shirley Feeney work together at the Shotz Brewery in Milwaukee and...	Laverne DeFazio	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1975	TV Saturday Night Live A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary...	Self - Fashion Show Host / Various	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1975	TV Saturday Night Live A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary...	Self - Various Characters	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1975	Movie Let's Switch! Chaos ensues when two former college friends, one a housewife and the other the editor of a hip women's magazine,...	Alice Wright	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1974	Movie How Come Nobody's on Our Side? A youthful trio plan a caper with the use of astrology.	Theresa	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1974	TV Dinah! Dinah's show premiered 9 September 1974 and continued through to 4 September 1981. She started out the 70's with Dinah's...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1974	TV Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers is a 1974-1975 United States comedic television series starring Paul Sand which centers around...	Janice Dreyfuss	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1974	TV Chico and the Man Chico and the Man is an American sitcom which ran on NBC for four seasons, from September 13, 1974, to...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1974	TV Happy Days In 1950s Milwaukee the Cunningham family must contend with Fonzie, a motorcycle riding Casanova.	Laverne DeFazio	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1972	Movie The Couple Takes a Wife Complications ensue when an overworked couple decides to hire a "wife" — someone who can run the household for them...	Paula	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1972	Movie The Crooked Hearts A charming but somewhat larcenous widow attempts to snare a rich bachelor through a lonely hearts club, but her scheme...	Waitress	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1972	Movie Albert Brooks' Famous School for Comedians This short film originally aired as part of a satirical PBS show called The Great American Dream Machine. The film...	Secretary	Not rated
1972	TV The Bob Newhart Show The Bob Newhart Show is an American situation comedy produced by MTM Enterprises, which aired 142 original episodes on CBS...	Stewardess	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1972	TV Banacek Banacek is an American detective TV series starring George Peppard that aired on the NBC network from 1972 to 1974....	Receptionist	TMDB 8.5 / 10
1972	Movie Evil Roy Slade Orphaned and left in the desert as an infant, Evil Roy Slade grew up alone—save for his teddy bear—and mean....	Bank Teller (uncredited)	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1971	TV Getting Together Getting Together is an American musical situation comedy, which aired on the ABC television network during the 1971-72 season. It...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1971	Movie The Feminist and the Fuzz A dedicated women's libber and a male chauvinist cop become roommates.	Liberation Lady	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1971	TV The Great American Dream Machine The Great American Dream Machine was a weekly satirical variety television series, produced in New York City by WNET and...	Herself	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1970	Movie The Wacky Zoo of Morgan City Based on Charles Goodrum’s book, "I’ll Trade You an Elk." The mayor wants to close down the run-down city zoo...	Mayor's Secretary	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1970	TV The Odd Couple Felix and Oscar are two divorced men. Felix is neat and tidy while Oscar is sloppy and casual. They share...	Myrna	TMDB 7.8 / 10
1970	TV The Mary Tyler Moore Show 30-year-old single Mary Richards moves to Minneapolis to start a new life after a romantic break-up. There she reacquaints with...	Toni	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1970	TV The Mary Tyler Moore Show 30-year-old single Mary Richards moves to Minneapolis to start a new life after a romantic break-up. There she reacquaints with...	Paula Kovacs	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1970	Movie The Grasshopper A British Columbia teenager dreams of show business but winds up as a call girl in Las Vegas.	Plaster Caster Groupie	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1969	Movie In Name Only In this romantic comedy, an unwed couple who run a wedding planning business discover, to their horror, that the Justice...	Bridesmaid	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1969	TV Love, American Style An anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in anywhere from one, two, three,...	Mary	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1969	TV Then Came Bronson Then Came Bronson is an American adventure/drama television series produced by MGM Television and broadcast on NBC from 1969 to...	Claire	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1968	Movie How Sweet It Is! All-American couple who try to bridge the generation gap with their free-spirited son on a trip, frisky business and misunderstandings...	Tour Girl	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1968	Movie The Savage Seven Biker gang leader Kisum (Adam Roarke) loves waitress Marcia Little Hawk (Joanna Frank). Her brother Johnnie Little Hawk (Robert Walker,...	Tina	TMDB 4.9 / 10
1966	TV That Girl That Girl is an American sitcom that ran on ABC from 1966 to 1971. It stars Marlo Thomas as the...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1962	TV The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from...	Self	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1961	TV The Mike Douglas Show The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in...	Self	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1954	TV The Wonderful World of Disney Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the...	Mayor's Secretary	TMDB 7.9 / 10
1944	TV Golden Globe Awards An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign, bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press...	Self - Nominee	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1944	TV Golden Globe Awards An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign, bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press...	Self	TMDB 6.9 / 10

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2009	TV United States of Tara Tara's multiple personalities include "T" the wild-child teenager, "Buck" the rough and tumble biker dude, and "Alice" the type-A homemaker....	Director Directing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2005	Movie Bewitched Thinking he can overshadow an unknown actress in the part, an egocentric actor unknowingly gets a witch cast in an...	Producer Production	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2005	Movie Cinderella Man The true story of boxer Jim Braddock who, following his retirement in the 1930s, makes a surprise comeback in order...	Producer Production	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2001	Movie Riding in Cars with Boys In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2001	TV According to Jim Jim is the typical all-American guy — a macho "everyman" — with a soft spot for his beautiful wife and...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1998	Movie With Friends Like These Four small-time, two-bit character actors, all close friends, compete for the same important part in the next Martin Scorsese mob...	Producer Production	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1996	Movie The Preacher's Wife Good-natured Reverend Henry Biggs finds that his marriage to choir mistress Julia is flagging, due to his constant absence caring...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1996	Movie Getting Away with Murder When the very moralistic college ethics instructor Jack Lambert finds himself living next door to an accused German death camp...	Producer Production	TMDB 4.9 / 10
1994	Movie Renaissance Man An advertising man is slowly sliding downhill. When he is fired from his job in Detroit, he signs up for...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1994	Movie Renaissance Man An advertising man is slowly sliding downhill. When he is fired from his job in Detroit, he signs up for...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1992	Movie A League of Their Own As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1992	Movie A League of Their Own As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1990	Movie Awakenings Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease....	Director Directing	TMDB 7.8 / 10
1990	Movie Awakenings Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease....	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 7.8 / 10
1988	Movie Big When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big—he wakes up the following morning to...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1986	Movie Jumpin' Jack Flash Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day, she gets...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1979	TV Working Stiffs Working Stiffs is a short-lived 1979 American television series which starred James Belushi and Michael Keaton as brothers Ernie and...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1976	TV Laverne & Shirley Best friends, roommates, and polar opposites, Laverne DeFazio and Shirley Feeney work together at the Shotz Brewery in Milwaukee and...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.2 / 10

Belushi

2020 / TMDB 7.0

The Happy Days of Garry Marshall

2020 / TMDB 8.0

Mother's Day

2016 / TMDB 6.0

Going to America

2015 / TMDB 4.0

Scooby-Doo! and KISS: Rock and Roll Mystery

2015 / TMDB 8.0

Staten Island Summer

2015 / TMDB 5.6

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