Marion Ross
Marion Ross ( born October 25, 1928 in Albert Lea, Minnesota Marian Ross ) is an American actress.
Life
Ross grew up as one of three siblings in Albert Lea, Waconia and on Wilmar, Minnesota. She has an older sister Alicia and a younger brother Gordon. At the age of 13 years, Ross changed its name from Marian Marion. After she had finished her second year of high school, she went as au pair girl to Minneapolis. There she took acting lessons at the MacPhail Center for the Arts and attended Southwest High School. A year later, her family moved to San Diego, California.
Ross wrote there at San Diego State College, and was touted as the best actress of the college. After graduating in 1950, she played La Jolla theater. The local director was convinced by her acting skills in such a way that he recommended to start a career on the big screen her. 1951 married Ross Freeman Meskiman. The marriage produced two children went, the actor Jim Meskimen ( born 1959 ), and the director and writer Ellen Plummer, out. In 1969, the couple divorced again.
Today Ross lives with actor Paul Michael in Los Angeles.
Career
Her debut was in 1953 in the film The Ross piquant years of a woman ( Forever Female). This was followed by small roles in The Glenn Miller Story (1954 ), Sabrina and Operation Petticoat (1959). Her television career began in 1953. For two years, she starred in Life with Father. After that she was, inter alia, Night Court to see in The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, Love Boat and Harry. Her best-known television role is, however, the. In Happy Days, where she played from 1974 to 1984 Marion Cunningham Later she was seen in the short-lived television series Brooklyn Bridge.
A younger audience was particularly Ross for her roles in Gilmore Girls as the third Lorelai Lorelai grandmother, Trix ' Gilmore and cousin Marilyn, and in the wild seventies also as a grandmother, Bernice Forman, known. Furthermore, she appeared in the Drew Carey Show as Carey's mother.
She was nominated five times for an Emmy and once for a Golden Globe. She was twice awarded the Q Award. Since 12 July 2001, it has a star on the Walk of Fame.