Marilu Henner

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Birth Name: Mary Lucy Denise Pudlowski

Age: 73, born 6 April 1952

Country of origin: United States

Height: 5' 7"

Relationship Status: Married

Partner: Michael Brown

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Marilu Henner discusses working with Judd Hirsch on "Taxi" - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG

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Description: American actress, producer, and author. She is best known for her role as Elaine O'Connor Nardo on the sitcom Taxi. Henner has hyperthymesia and can remember the specific details of her everyday life since she was a small child. CBS's 60 Minutes aired a segment which featured six individuals thought to have this condition. As a longtime friend of 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl, Henner was included on the show. While a student at the University of Chicago Henner originated the role of Marty in Grease. When the show was discovered and moved to Broadway, she was asked to reprise the role; however, she chose instead to American actress, producer, and author. She is best known for her role as Elaine O'Connor Nardo on the sitcom Taxi.

Henner has hyperthymesia and can remember the specific details of her everyday life since she was a small child. CBS's 60 Minutes aired a segment which featured six individuals thought to have this condition. As a longtime friend of 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl, Henner was included on the show.

While a student at the University of Chicago Henner originated the role of Marty in Grease. When the show was discovered and moved to Broadway, she was asked to reprise the role; however, she chose instead to play "Marty" in the national touring company alongside John Travolta. Her first film appearance was in the 1977 sleeper-hit Between the Lines, co-starring then-unknowns Jeff Goldblum, Lindsay Crouse, John Heard, and Jill Eikenberry. Her second role was opposite Richard Gere in the 1978 film Bloodbrothers.

Henner came to prominence with the role of Elaine Nardo in the situation comedy Taxi. She was the leading lady in the 1982 film Hammett directed by Wim Wenders, produced by Francis Ford Coppola, and starring her first husband Frederic Forrest. In 1983, Henner starred opposite Burt Reynolds in The Man Who Loved Women, directed by Blake Edwards. Reynolds then asked Henner to join the cast of Cannonball Run II later that year along with Shirley MacLaine and Dom DeLuise. She was the leading lady in the 1984 film Johnny Dangerously. In 1985 she once again appeared alongside John Travolta in Perfect. In 1991 she appeared opposite Steve Martin in L.A. Story as Trudi, a role for which she received a nomination for an American Comedy Award as the Funniest Supporting Female in a Motion Picture. From 1990 through 1994, she appeared opposite Burt Reynolds in the situation comedy Evening Shade. She also appeared in Noises Off (1992) and in Man on the Moon (1999), a film about her Taxi co-star Andy Kaufman. Henner played herself (as well as herself playing her Taxi character).
Henner at the 1991 Emmy Awards

Henner guested on Match Game and Hollywood Squares. She provided the voice for Gotham City socialite Veronica Vreeland in Batman: The Animated Series (1992–1999), reprising the role in the animated films Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993) and Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero (1998). In 1994, she hosted her own daytime talk show, Marilu, for 165 episodes.

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