Marlo Thomas Biography
Marlo Thomas is an award-winning American actress, producer, social activist, author, and philanthropist. She is best recognized for playing the lead in the comedy series That Girl (1966-1971). She is the author of seven best-selling books, including Free To Be…You & Me, which won an Emmy Award.
How old is Marlo Thomas?- Age
Marlo is 84 years old as of 2021. She was born Margaret Julia Marlo Thomas on November 21, 1937, in Detroit, Michigan, United States of America. She celebrates her birthday on the 21st of November every year.
Marlo Thomas Education
Marlo attended Marymount High School in Los Angeles and earned a bachelor’s degree in education from the University of Southern California.
What is Marlo Thomas’s ethnicity?- Nationality
Thomas is an American national and citizen by birth. She was born in Detroit, Michigan, United State of America. She is of white ethnicity/heritage/ancestry. Her father was a Roman Catholic Lebanese American and her mother was Sicilian American. Her godmother was Loretta Young.
Marlo Thomas Height- Weight
The famous actress stands at a height of 5’4″ (1.63 m). She also weighs 123 lbs (56 kg).
What is Marlo Thomas’s real name? Family – Parents
Marlo was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, the United State of America as Margaret Julia Thomas. The eldest child of comedian Danny Thomas (1912 – 1991) and former Rose Marie Cassaniti (1914 – 2000). Her dad was a Roman Catholic Lebanese American and her mom was Sicilian American. Her adoptive parent was Loretta Young.
Marlo Thomas Siblings – Sister
Marlo was born together with her younger siblings. She has a sister, Terre, and a brother Tony Thomas, a producer and a filmmaker.
Is Marlo Thomas married?- Husband
Thomas’s long-term partner was dramatist Herb Gardner. In 1977, Thomas was a guest on Phil Donahue’s television talk show Donahue, where she and the host “fell in love at first sight.” On May 21, 1980, they married and raised their five children together.
Does Marlo Thomas have any children?- Children
She personally has no children, however, she is a loving and caring stepmother to Donahue’s five children from his first marriage.
Marlo Thomas Movies and TV Shows
TV SHOWS:
- Ocean’s 8
- The Female Brain
- LOL
- Playing Mona Lisa
- Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
- Starstruck
- The Real Blonde
- Falling Down
- In the Spirit
- Thieves
- Jenny
Marlo Thomas Television
MOVIES:
- Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later
- Ballers
- The New Normal
- Ugly Betty
- Deceit
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
- Two Against Time
- Ally McBeal
- Frasier
- Friends
- Roseanne
- Ultimate Betrayal
- Reunion
Marlo Thomas Books
- Growing Up Laughing
- Free to Be…You and Me
- The Right Words at the Right Time
- It Ain’t Over . . . Till It’s Over
- Free to Be…a Family
- The Right Words at the Right Time Volume 2
- Free to Be…You and Me and Free to Be…a Family
- Thanks, Giving: All Year Long
- As Long as You Both Shall Live
- When We Were Free to Be
Marlo Thomas Career
Bonanza, McHale’s Navy, Ben Casey, Arrest and Trial, The Joey Bishop Show, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, My Favorite Martian, 77 Sunset Strip, and The Donna Reed Show were among the many television shows in which Thomas appeared. Mike Nichols cast her in Neil Simon’s Barefoot in the Park, a 1965 London production that also starred Daniel Massey, Kurt Kasznar, and Mildred Natwick. (In 1986, Nichols put her alongside Ron Silver and Olympia Dukakis in Andrew Bergman’s Social Security on Broadway.) Thomas and her father, Danny, played Laurie and Ed Dubro in “Honor Bright,” a 1961 episode of CBS’s Dick Powell’s Zane Grey Theatre.
Thomas is the author of seven best-selling books, three of which are #1 bestsellers: Free to Be… You and Me; Free to Be… A Family; The Right Words at the Right Time; The Right Words at the Right Time, Volume 2: Your Turn; The Right Words at the Right Time, Volume 1: Your Turn; The Right Words at the Right Time, Volume 2: Your Turn; Friends of Marlo Thomas: Growing Up Laughing, her 2009 biography; and It Ain’t Over…Till It’s Over: Reinventing Your Life and Realizing Your Dreams Anytime, At Any Age (the CD version of which won the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children in 2006).
Thomas is the National Outreach Director for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, which was founded by her father, Danny Thomas. Her entire profit from her book and CD in 2004 was donated. She gave the hospital all of the royalties from her 2004 book and CD Marlo Thomas and Friends: Thanks & Giving All Year Long (also produced with Christopher Cerf) and her two Right Words at the Right Time books. Thomas founded MarloThomas.com, a website for women aged 35 and over that is affiliated with AOL and the Huffington Post, in 2010.
Marlo Thomas’s Net Worth
Thomas has an estimated net worth of $40 million dollars.