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Penny Marshall is an actress, producer, and director. After playing several small roles for television, she was cast as Laverne DeFazio in the sitcom Laverne and Shirley. A ratings success, the show ran from 1976 until 1983, and Marshall received three Golden Globe award nominations for her performance. She went on to direct films such as 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) . In more recent years, she has produced Cinderella Man (2005) and Bewitched (2005) , as well as episodes of According to Jim (2009) . She most recently directed an episode of the Showtime original series United States of Tara.

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