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Penny Marshall

1943 - 2018

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Carole Penny Marshall (October 15, 1943 – December 17, 2018) was an American actress, film director, and producer. She is best 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. 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. box office. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Penny Marshall has received more than 11,521,558 page views. Her biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia. Penny Marshall is the 2,566th most popular actor (up from 2,665th in 2019), the 4,021st most popular biography from United States (up from 4,265th in 2019) and the 1,172nd most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 12M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 58

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Penny Marshall ranks 2,566 out of 13,578. Before her are Danneel Ackles, Annabella, Dieter Hallervorden, Vincent Lindon, Richard Johnson, and Linda Harrison. After her are Sylvester McCoy, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Marla Maples, Richard Sammel, Carice van Houten, and Miranda Otto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Penny Marshall ranks 287. Before her are Grover Washington Jr., Ramón Grosso, Ignacio Ramonet, Scott Walker, Valerie Perrine, and Frederick Chiluba. After her are Sylvester McCoy, Peter Hyams, Larry Clark, Akinori Nakayama, Stanislav Galić, and Marcos Valle. Among people deceased in 2018, Penny Marshall ranks 181. Before her are Kirin Kiki, Michael Halliday, Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Vladimir Lyakhov, Tab Hunter, and Edgar Hilsenrath. After her are Jesús López Cobos, Zhores Medvedev, Abbas, Stefán Karl Stefánsson, René Houseman, and Luigi Taveri.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Penny Marshall ranks 4,021 out of 20,380. Before her are Judith Reisman (1935), Greg LeMond (1961), Linda Harrison (1945), Brett Lunger (1945), Gilbert Baker (1951), and Allen Iverson (1975). After her are Edwin H. Land (1909), Marky Ramone (1952), Marla Maples (1963), Charles Geschke (1939), T-Bone Walker (1910), and Jennifer Tilly (1958).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Penny Marshall ranks 1,172. Before her are Mercedes Ruehl (1948), Anthony Delon (1964), Kate Mulgrew (1955), Tab Hunter (1931), Danneel Ackles (1979), and Linda Harrison (1945). After her are Marla Maples (1963), Jennifer Tilly (1958), Denis O'Hare (1962), Robert David Hall (1947), Vince Vaughn (1970), and Kate Hudson (1979).

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Television and Movie Roles

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The Master's Wife (uncredited)
After 300 years of slumber, three sister witches are accidentally resurrected in Salem on Halloween night, and it is up to three kids and their newfound feline friend to put an end to the witches' reign of terror once and for all.
Jul 16th 19937 / 10
Laverne & Shirley
Laverne DeFazio
Laverne & Shirley is an American television sitcom that ran on ABC from January 27, 1976 to May 10, 1983. It starred Penny Marshall as Laverne De Fazio and Cindy Williams as Shirley Feeney, single roommates who worked as bottlecappers in a fictitious Milwaukee brewery called "Shotz Brewery." The show was a spin-off from Happy Days, as the two lead characters were originally introduced on that series as acquaintances of Fonzie. Set in roughly the same time period, the timeline started in approximately 1958, when the series began, through 1967, when the series ended. As with Happy Days, it was made by Paramount Television, created by Garry Marshall, and executive produced by Garry Marshall, Edward K. Milkis, and Thomas L. Miller.
7.231 / 10
New Year's Eve
Penny Marshall
The lives of several couples and singles in New York intertwine over the course of New Year's Eve.
Dec 8th 20115.9 / 10