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Paula Marshall Profile |
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Birth Date: June 12, 1964
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Birth Place: Rockville, Maryland, USA
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Birth Name: Paula Marie Marshall
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Height: 5'8"
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Biography |
Paula Marshall (born June 12, 1964 in Rockville, Maryland,
USA) is an American actress, who has an unfortunate
reputation for having many television series in which she is
a main cast member cancelled in its first season and several
shows on which she was a guest star cancelled soon after her
appearance. This has earned her the nickname "Show Killer"
at Television Without Pity.
A native of Maryland, she graduated from Robert E. Peary
High School in Rockville, in 1982, where she pursued her
love of photography.
It wasn't until 1992 that Marshall gained audience attention
when she had a three episode guest role on The Wonder Years
and guest-starred on other shows such as Seinfeld, Nash
Bridges, Grapevine and Diagnosis Murder. In 1994, she got
her first sitcom role on Wild Oats, which was cancelled in
its first season. After a few years in B-movies, Marshall
gained a role on a second series, 1997's Chicago Sons, which
fared no better than Wild Oats had. 1997 wasn't a bad year
for Marshall, though, as she had a recurring role on Spin
City and starred alongside Bette Midler and Dennis Farina in
the film That Old Feeling.
In 1998, Marshall's third television series, Rob Thomas's
Cupid, premiered. The series featured Marshall as Dr. Claire
Allen, a psychiatrist who is given charge of a man named
Trevor (Jeremy Piven) who thinks he is Cupid sent down from
Mt. Olympus by Zeus to connect 100 couples without his
powers, as a punishment. The series gained a small but
dedicated fanbase but found itself in a bad timeslot and was
canceled. Before the year was out, however, Marshall had
joined Gina Gershon and her That Old Feeling co-star Danny
Nucci on David E. Kelley's Snoops, about a
less-than-conventional detective agency. Within its first
season, it was also canceled.
In 2000, Marshall returned to television screens: first with
a three-episode guest arc as a porn star and love interest
for Jeremy (Joshua Malina) on Aaron Sorkin's Sports Night,
and then in her fifth TV series Cursed (a.k.a The Weber
Show). After its first season, Cursed was also canceled, and
Marshall remained off camera until 2002, when she guest
starred on Just Shoot Me! as the daughter of Nina (Wendie
Malick). Before the year was out, Just Shoot Me! had been
canceled, and Marshall had her sixth series: Hidden Hills.
Hidden Hills was an offbeat comedy about three families in
suburbia and was a mild success but was not renewed for a
second season. Marshall resurfaced in a secondary role in
the Steve Martin-Bonnie Hunt remake of Cheaper by the Dozen
and had a cameo appearance in Break a Leg, a film starring
Jennifer Beals and Danny Nucci, who by now was dating
Marshall. On October 12, 2003, the two were married. Paula
gave birth to her first and Danny Nucci's second child in
March 2005.
In 2004, Marshall guest starred on an episode of Alicia
Silverstone's Miss Match, but the series was canceled before
her episode aired. In October, she had a three-episode role
on freshman series Veronica Mars, which was created by
Cupid's Rob Thomas. Veronica Mars was renewed for a second
season. She returned to the role toward the end of season
two.
Marshall's next series was Out of Practice, her seventh main
role on a television show. However, Out of Practice was
removed from the CBS line-up (as of March 30, 2006) and was
officially canceled soon after.
Marshall has also been cast in several pilots that never got
picked up, including the Elizabeth Lackey series Cooking
Lessons and Rob Thomas' Sticks. |
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Other
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Paula graduated in June 1982 from Robert E. Peary High
School in Rockville (Aspen Hill), MD.
Measurements: 34B-23-34 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
Within the last decade, she starred in six different TV
shows that all were cancelled in less than a season: "Hidden
Hills" (2002), "Cursed" (2000), "Snoops" (1999), _"Cupid"
(1998/I)_ , "Chicago Sons" (1997), and "Wild Oats" (1994).
Gave birth to her first child in March of 2005.
Sister-in-law of Natalie Nucci. |
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