As an actress, producer, author and social activist, Marlo Thomas continues to
create meaningful and successful projects within all areas of the entertainment
community. Throughout her career Thomas has been honored with four Emmys, nine
Emmy nominations, a Golden Globe, the George Foster Peabody Award, the Helen
Caldicott Award for Nuclear Disarmament, the Thomas Paine Award from the ACLU,
the American Women in Radio and Television satellite Award. Most recently, Ms.
Thomas was inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame.
Marlo Thomas began her career performing in regional theaters around the
country when Mike Nichols cast her as the lead in the London production of Neil
Simon's "Barefoot in the Park". She then went on to star in and produce the
long-running hit television series, "That Girl", the first series on television
to portray an independent single woman living alone.
On Broadway, she has appeared in Herb Gardner's "Thieves", Andrew Bergman's
"Social Security", directed by Mike Nichols and The Circle in The Square's
revival of "The Shadow Box". Among her many theatre credits, she has starred
in "The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds", "Who's Afraid of
Virginia Woolf?", the National Tour of "Six Degrees of Separation", Alan
Ayckbourn's "Woman in Mind", Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues" with Rita
Moreno and Cynthia Nixon, "The Guys" with Stephen Lang and "The Exonerated"
with Richard Dreyfuss and Gabriel Byrne.
Ms. Thomas' television films include CBS' "Two Against Time", the holiday
perennial "It Happened One Christmas" with Orson Welles, "The Lost Honor of
Kathryn Beck" with Kris Kristofferson, "Consenting Adult" with Martin Sheen;
"Nobody's Child", (which brought Ms. Thomas her fourth Emmy, as Best Dramatic
Actress), "Ultimate Betrayal", "Reunion", "Acts Of Love And Other Comedies",
"Love, Sex, & Marriage" and "Our Heroes Ourselves". Ms. Thomas guest starred on
the hit show "Friends" as Jennifer Aniston's mother for which she was nominated
for an Emmy Award. It was Ms. Thomas' first appearance on a situation comedy
since her ground breaking days on "That Girl". Her feature film credits
include: "The Real Blonde", "Deuce", "In the Spirit", "Thieves" and "Jenny".
She created, produced and co-hosted the ground-breaking television specials
"Free To Be...You and Me" which received the Emmy, Peabody, Christopher and
Maxi Awards and became a best-selling children's book as well as a Gold Record
and "Free To Be...A Family", which also won an Emmy Award and became a
best-selling book and record. The 25th anniversary edition of the two books
has become a national best-seller. The proceeds from all the Free to Be
projects go to the Ms. Foundation for Women and Children. Ms. Thomas' current
book, "The Right Words at the Right Time," was published in May 2002. Within
its first week of release, the book landed on the New York Times Best Seller
List, making this Ms. Thomas' third book to appear on the list. The proceeds
from this book go to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Ms. Thomas is a founding director of the Ms. Foundation for Women, a member of
the board of the National Women's Political Caucus, The Creative Coalition and
the Museum of Television and Radio. Further, she has been recognized by the
NAACP's Pathway to Excellence Award, William Moses Kunstler's Racial Justice
Award, and the National Council of Jewish Women's Rebekah Kohut Award.
With her family, Ms. Thomas carries on her father Danny Thomas' life's work for
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, the institution he founded, which
specializes in catastrophic diseases in children and spearheaded the conquest
for childhood leukemia. Ms. Thomas is a member of The Actors' Studio and lives
in New York with her husband, Phil Donahue.
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