Marion Ross

Marion Ross is an American actress. Her best-known role is that of Marion Cunningham on the ABC television sitcom Happy Days, on which she starred from 1974 to 1984 and for which she received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Before her success on Happy Days, Ross appeared in a variety of film roles, appearing in The Glenn Miller Story (1954), Sabrina (1954), Lust for Life (1956), Teacher's Pet (1958), Some Came Running (1958), Operation Petticoat (1959), and Honky (1971), as well as several minor television roles, one of which was on television's The Lone Ranger (1954). She was also twice nominated successively in 1992 and 1993 for the Primetime Emmy Award for her performance on the CBS television comedy-drama Brooklyn Bridge and later netted another Emmy nomination in 1999 for a two-episode appearance on the popular CBS drama Touched by an Angel. Ross also starred in the high-profile, long-anticipated sequel to Terms of Endearment (1983), The Evening Star (1996), in a turn for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, as well as both a nomination and win for a Lone Star Film and Television Award for Best Supporting Actress.

25 October 1928

Born on the same birth date (25 October 1928): Adolphe Gesché • Anthony Franciosa • Jeanne Cooper • Paulo Mendes da Rocha • Peter Naur • Yakov Rylsky

Born on the same birth day (25 October): Cricket at the 1900 Summer Olympics • Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger • Fabian Hambüchen • James Carville • John Francis Dodge • Kaz Patafta • Mia Wasikowska • Rainer Strecker • Renée of France • Sara Dylan • Sergey Ridzik

Born in the same month (October 1928): Alejandro Végh Villegas • Ali Kafi • Alvin Toffler • Andrew Sarris • Ann Morgan Guilbert • Anthony Franciosa • Bill Maynard • Geoffrey Tordoff, Baron Tordoff • Gilles Vigneault • Louise Fitzhugh • Michael O'Donnell (physician) • Paulo Mendes da Rocha • Shridath Ramphal • Sivaji Ganesan • Torben Ulrich • Willy Mairesse • Yakov Rylsky • Zhu Rongji