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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, 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 11,019,023 page views. Her biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Penny Marshall is the 2,669th most popular actor (up from 2,751st in 2019), the 4,277th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,488th in 2019) and the 1,272nd most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 11M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.87

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 58

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Penny Marshall ranks 2,669 out of 9,996. Before her are Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Elizabeth Wilson, Morena Baccarin, Greg Kinnear, Jacques Villeret, and May Whitty. After her are Sage Stallone, William Katt, Marc Singer, Kelly Hu, Diahann Carroll, and Peppino De Filippo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Penny Marshall ranks 285. Before her are Pablo Milanés, Antal Dunai, Gary Burton, Ignacio Ramonet, Inna Churikova, and Valerie Perrine. After her are Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov, John Draper, Rashid Sunyaev, Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, Xu Caihou, and Tim Krabbé. Among people deceased in 2018, Penny Marshall ranks 188. Before her are Juraj Herz, Vladimir Lyakhov, Karl Lehmann, Frank Carlucci, Luigi Taveri, and Luis Posada Carriles. After her are Siegfried Rauch, Henri Namphy, Phan Văn Khải, Andrei Bitov, Anna Maria Ferrero, and Károly Palotai.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Penny Marshall ranks 4,277 out of 18,182. Before her are Charles Starkweather (1938), Lilian Jackson Braun (1913), Diane Disney Miller (1933), Elizabeth Wilson (1921), Joey Jordison (1975), and Greg Kinnear (1963). After her are Sage Stallone (1976), William Katt (1951), Frances Marion (1888), Kelly Hu (1968), Diahann Carroll (1935), and Jordan Rudess (1956).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Penny Marshall ranks 1,272. Before her are Anthony Delon (1964), Tim Matheson (1947), Tony Musante (1936), Dorothy Lamour (1914), Elizabeth Wilson (1921), and Greg Kinnear (1963). After her are Sage Stallone (1976), William Katt (1951), Kelly Hu (1968), Diahann Carroll (1935), Tony Todd (1954), and Carrie Snodgress (1945).

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