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Marlo is best known to younger viewers as Rachel's mother, Sandra Green, on the popular television series, Friends.
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Marlo's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is located at 6902 Hollywood Blvd. She received it for her contributions to television.
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She made her Broadway debut in the Herb Gardner play Thieves in 1974.
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To break out of being perceived as "perky", in 1970 she starred alongside Alan Alda in the movie Jenny about an unwed pregnant girl who marries a filmmaker out of convenience.
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She received 4 Emmy nominations during the 5 year run of her show That Girl/
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Marlo is both spokesperson and humanitarian for St. Jude's Children's Hospital, the hospital her father founded in 1962.
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She received an Emmy in 1986 for her heartbreaking performance as Marie Balter in the telefilm, Nobody's Child.
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Marlo had rhinoplasty before she became a star so she could have a smaller nose.
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Marlo won a Peabody award for the 1974 program Free to Be.... You & Me.
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She once dated former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
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Marlo was the editor for the popular inspirational book The Right Words at the Right Time.
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She remains an activist for feminist causes and a supporter of liberal candidates for office.
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Marlo is half Lebanese and half Italian.
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Marlo graduated Marymount High School in Los Angeles, California.
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Marlo once attended Beverly Hills High School.
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Marlo met future husband Phil Donahue in 1977 while she was a guest on his TV talk show.
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After she married her husband talk show host Phil Donahue in 1980, the two went on their honeymoon to Greece.
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Marlo has been married to talk show host Phil Donahue since 1980.