Penny Marshall
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"Carole Penny Marshall" is an American actress, director, and producer. After playing several small roles for television, she was cast as Laverne DeFazio on the sitcom Laverne & Shirley, which ran from 1976 until 1983, during which Marshall was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy/Golden Globe award for her performance three times.

She progressed to directing films such as Big (film)/Big (1988), the first film directed by a woman to gross in excess of $100 million at the U.S. box office; Awakenings (1990), which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture; and A League of Their Own (1992). She produced Cinderella Man (2005) and Bewitched (2005 film)/Bewitched (2005), as well as episodes of According to Jim (2009). She recently directed two episodes of the Showtime (TV network)/Showtime series United States of Tara.

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I live in L.A., so I go to basketball games. But I love baseball.

It's better for me to go up against someone's passion with my passion and then clarifying something that he wrote. Then I know how to work around certain things.

I think all directors should at least take acting classes and see what an actor goes through. And I think all actors should try to direct and see what a director has to go through - like we don't do it on purpose to take three hours to light the scene. I'm not thrilled with it either but that's what it takes.

My mother was nuts. She was very funny. We got our sense of humor from her. My father had no sense of humor and they yelled at each other.