Penny Marshall

Carole Penny Marshall October 15 1943 December 17 2018 was an American actress producer and director After playing several small roles for television she was cast as Laverne DeFazio in the sitcom Laverne Shirley A ratings success the show ran from 1976 until 1983 and Marshall received three Golden Globe award nominations for her performance She progressed to directing films such as Big 1988 the first film directed by a woman to gross in excess of 100 million at the US box office Awakenings 1990 which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture and A League of Their Own 1992 In more recent years she produced Cinderella Man 2005 and Bewitched 2005 Description above from the Wikipedia article Penny Marshall licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia