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

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.