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Marion Ross

Acting

Born October 25, 1928 · Watertown, Carver County, Minnesota, USA

Also known as Marian Ellen Ross

Biography

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), and The Outer Limits (1964). 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 CBS drama Touched by an Angel. Ross also co-starred in a sequel to the film Terms of Endearment (1983) called The Evening Star (1996), for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. She was also nominated and won a Lone Star Film and Television Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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Awards & recognition

  • star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Filmography50+ titles

Dark Shadows and Beyond: The Jonathan Frid Story

2021as Self

Generator Rex

2010

Dear Dracula

2012as Grandma (voice)

The Boondocks

2005

Instant Mom

2013as Marion Cunningham

Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated

2010as Grandma Moonbeam (voice)

Grey's Anatomy

2005as Betty Donahue

Best Friends Whenever

2015as Rita McCallister

Gilmore Girls

2000as Trix Gilmore

That '70s Show

1998as Grandma Forman

Emergency!

1972as Margaret

Brooklyn Bridge

1991as Sophie Berger

The Outer Limits

1963as Agnes Benjamin

SpongeBob SquarePants

1999as Grandma SquarePants (voice)

Superman: The Animated Series

1996as General Richter (voice)

MacGyver

1985as Sister Robin

Perry Mason

1957as Helen Harvey

The Middle

2009as Ms. Dunlap

Happy Days

1974as Marion Cunningham

Mission: Impossible

1966as Mrs. Foster

Two and a Half Men

2003as Margaret

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962as Self

Sabrina

1954as Spiller's Girlfriend (uncredited)

Out of Practice

2005

Family Guy

1999as Marion Cunningham (voice)

King of the Hill

1997as Ms. Wakefield (voice)

The Fugitive

1963as Marian Eckhardt

The Red Skelton Show

1951as Elizabeth

Night Court

1984as Mrs. Daley

Chasing Life

2014

Hot in Cleveland

2010as Olga

Hidden in Silence

1996as Mrs. Diamant

Touched by an Angel

1994as Sophie

Hawaii Five-O

1968as Anita

Rawhide

1959as Pricilla Brewer

Operation Petticoat

1959as 2nd Lieutenant Colfax

Lust for Life

1956as Sister Clothilde (uncredited)

More Than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story

2021as Self

I Know That Voice

2013as Self

Nurse Jackie

2009as Renata Thurber

Where There's a Will

2006as Leslie Clyde Onstott

The New Adventures of Old Christine

2006as Agnes

Brothers and Sisters

2006as Ida Holden

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

1950as Dixie the Manicurist

The Wild Thornberrys

1998as Rebecca the Elephant Queen (voice)

Dream On

1990as Mother Superior

The Streets of San Francisco

1972as Mrs. Ross

Colossus: The Forbin Project

1970as Angela Fields

Some Came Running

1958as Sister Mary Joseph (uncredited)

The Glenn Miller Story

1954as Polly Haynes (uncredited)