Marilu Henner

Marilu Henner is fascinating to me on two fronts. As a performer, she came up through the original stage production of Grease before her screen debut, which gives her that theatrical discipline you can feel on camera. But what genuinely sets her apart is that she's also a writer, and her well-documented memory has made her a public face for how human recall can work differently. I appreciate that she never let herself be defined by a single sitcom era; the move from actor to author to producer reads, to me, like someone determined to keep authoring her own story rather than waiting to be cast in it.

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Name (English)

Marilu Henner

Name (Japanese)

マリル・ヘナー

Reading

まりる・へなー

Born

April 6, 1952 (age 74)

Origin

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Occupation

actor / writer / film producer / television actor / stage actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Dragon

University

University of Chicago

• Official sitehttp://www.marilu.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilu%20Henner
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AA%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%98%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q270747

Tags

• Illinois
• actor
• writer
• film producer

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.