Bonnie Gail Franklin Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Bonnie Franklin, of the freckled, fair-skinned, hazel-eyed, rosy-cheeked, carrot-haired variety, could light up a room with her buoyant, folksy personality, but she could be quite serious in a take-charge manner when it came to purposeful acting work. It took Norman Lear and a highly popular TV sitcom to finally make the 31-year-old performer a ...
Victoria Kupetz, Judith Bush, Bernard Franklin, Richard Franklin
Awards
TV Land Innovator Award, Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Performances
Nominations
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy, TV Land "She Works Hard for the Money" Award, TV Land Mad Ad Man (or Woman) of th...
Movies
A Guide for the Married Woman, Invisible Diplomats, Hanna-Barbera's All-Star Comedy Ice Revue, I Hate to Exercise, I Love to Tap, The Law
TV Shows
One Day at a Time
Star Sign
Capricorn
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Trademark
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Her freckles.
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Deep sultry voice.
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Short stature
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Short red hair and blue eyes
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Quote
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[On theatre acting] I started on the stage. That's where I'm comfortable. That's where I'm the most happiest. It's a totally different technique on film. I just know that (the stage) is where I'm able to do it best. And because of that, I'm happier in this thing.
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[1981] I'm not working with insensitive men. But the men who produce and write the show still don't believe me when I present them with the women's point of view. After seven years, I just want to say, 'C'mon guys, I'm an intelligent person, why don't you just trust me?' I'm so tired of fighting. But you can't give up.
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[re 'One Day' show, 1980:] I know it's just a television show, and I don't think that I am changing the way the world is structured [but] sometimes we strike chords that do make people think a bit.
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It's been pretty much 50-50 between the acting and the singing. The stuff I've done on stage has been so bloody exciting. The roles are just extraordinary. To play a person who is drunk, or angry, or English, or blind, to have that kind of stretch--when you're over 40, that's the exact time of the really great, meaty roles for women in theater. It's a wonderful opportunity to take advantage of that part of the business.
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[as to whether she knew that One Day at a Time (1975) was going to be a hit or not]: As soon as we went on the air we started receiving a lot of letters. The letters were saying, 'This is my life. This is what I'm going through. This is what my mother is like.' And so we pretty quickly got the idea that we were touching something.
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[In 2004, she reviewed clips from One Day at a Time (1975)] "When I looked at the tapes, I remember thinking how thin I looked. At the time, I was always saying, 'I need to lose weight, I need to lose 10 pounds'."
One year after her own death, her mother, Claire Franklin, who lived to be 102, died on 7 June 2014.
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Long lives ran in her family.
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Step-mother of Jef Minoff and Julie Minoff.
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Appears in "Grace & Glorie" as Gloria, Ogunquit Playhouse, Ogunquit, Maine, USA. (through 19 July); Cape Cod Playhouse, Dennis, Massachusetts, USA. (21 July to 3 August). [July 1997]
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Appeared in "Double Act", with Keir Dullea, at American State Festival, Milford, CT. [July 1998]
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Performing in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf", at the Public Theater, Pittsburgh, PA. [March 1999]
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Performing the role of "Gloria" in "Grace and Glorie", at the Helen Hayes Theatre in Nyack, NY. [March 1998]
Is buried at Mount Sinai Memorial Park in Los Angeles, California beside her husband.
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In 2001, she and her sister, Judy Franklin Bush, founded the nonprofit "Classic and Contemporary American Plays", an organization that introduces great American plays to inner-city schools' curriculum.
$1 Million
