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Margaret Julia "Marlo" Thomas is an American actress, producer, author, and social activist best known for starring on the sitcom That Girl and her children's franchise Free to Be... You and Me.She has received many awards for her work in television, including fourEmmys, a Golden Globe, and a Peabody Award.

Her children's album Marlo Thomas and Friends: Thanks & Giving All Year Long received aGrammy Award.She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.[3]

Danny Thomas founded St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in 1962.The Thanks & Giving campaign was started in 2004.

Danny Thomas' oldest child, Marlo Thomas, was born in Detroit, Michigan, on November 21, 1937.She has two siblings, one of which is a television and film producer.Her mother was Sicilian American and her father was Roman Catholic.Her godmother was a woman.[6]

Thomas was raised in Beverly Hills.She told The New York Times that she mispronunciation of the nickname caused her to become known as Marlo.She attended a high school in Los Angeles.She graduated from the University of Southern California with a teaching degree and wanted a piece of paper that said she was qualified to do something in the world.She was a member of two organizations.[7]

The Joey Bishop Show, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, My Favorite Martian, 77 Sunset Strip, and The Donna Reed Show were some of the shows Thomas appeared in.Her big break came in 1965, when she was cast in the London production of Neil Simon's Barefoot In the Park, co-starring Daniel Massey, Kurt Kasznar, andMildred Natwick.She was once again cast by Nichols on Broadway in Andrew Bergman's Social Security.

In 1961, Thomas and her father were cast as Laurie and Ed Dubro in a CBS show called "Honor Bright".Dubro, a former convict, opposed his daughter's plans to marry a neighbor.When Harwell's current wife arrives at the church to stop the wedding, Laurie flees and is crushed to death by a team of horses racing through town.It costs Harwell his own life when Dubro plots a unique way to punish him.[8]

Two's Company was a pilot starring Thomas.It caught the attention of an ABC programming executive even though it did not sell.He was interested in casting her in her own series.Thomas came up with her own idea for a show about a young woman who leaves home, moves to New York City, and struggles to become an actress.The network was hesitant about centering a series on a single female uninteresting or unrealistic.

In That Girl, Thomas played Ann Marie, a beautiful, up-and-coming actress with a writer boyfriend, played by Ted Bessell.The daily struggles of Ann holding different temporary jobs while pursuing her dream of a career on Broadway were told in the series.One of the first shows to focus on a single woman who did not live with her parents was That Girl.The second woman to produce her own series was Thomas.In the ratings, That Girl was a solid performer from 1966 to 1971 and produced 136 episodes.

After five years, Thomas decided to end the series.Both ABC and the show's sponsor wanted the series finale to be a wedding between the two central characters, but Thomas said that she felt it was the wrong message to send to her female audience, because it would give the impression that the only happy ending is.The girl has become popular.

After That Girl, Thomas went to the Actors Studio, where she studied with Lee and Sandra Seacat.She thanked both people when she won the Best Dramatic Actress award.

Her niece, Dionne Gordon, inspired her to write a children's book.She created multiple recordings and television specials related to the title Free to Be... A Family and You and Me.She was a California delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1972.She helped the George McGovern presidential campaign in October 1972 at Star-Spangled Women for McGovern–Shriver, where she performed a parody of Love Story for 19,000 people at Madison Square Garden.10

The first women's fund in the US was founded by Thomas, Gloria Steinem, and others in 1973.The organization was created to deliver funding and other resources to organizations that were presenting liberal women's voices in communities nationwide.

The chemistry of father and daughter acting together made for touching hospital-room scenes.

She has appeared in several television shows, including Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Ballers, and Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later.She narrated a series on Investigation Discovery.Thomas played the mother of Rachel Green on Friends from 1996 to 2002.

Jenny, Thieves, In The Spirit, The Real Blonde, Starstruck, and Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo all starred Thomas.She starred in It Happened One Christmas as well as Consenting Adult and Nobody's Child.

The New York Times called Thomas' performance in George Is Dead in Relatively Speaking the best of the three one-act plays.Woody Allen and the Coen brothers wrote two plays.

In addition to The Guys, The Exonerated, and The Vagina Monologues, Thomas has also appeared in Chicago and Boston.She appeared in the New York debut of Joe DiPietro's play Clever Little Lies with Greg Mullavey.Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a regional theatre production.Paper Doll, with F. Murray Abraham, is at the Pittsburgh Public Theatre.She toured with Six Degrees of Separation in 1993.In the spring of 2008, she starred in a play at the George Street Playhouse.

Thomas has published seven books, three of which are #1 best-sellers.

Her father, Danny Thomas, founded St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.She donated royalties from her 2004 book and CD Marlo Thomas and Friends: Thanks & Giving All Year Long as well as her two Right Words at the Right Time books to the hospital.

MarloThomas.com was created by Thomas in 2010 and is associated with AOL and the Huffington Post.

Thomas has received a number of awards, including fourEmmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a Jefferson Award.

One of the cards in the Supersisters trading card set had Thomas's name and picture on it.There are no comments at this time.