Marissa Jaret Winokur is one of the actors of A Million Little Things, portraying the role of Linda.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Winokur was born in New York City, the daughter of Maxine, a teacher, and Michael Winokur, an architect. She is Jewish. Winokur was a cheerleader and captain of her high school soccer team at Fox Lane High School. She graduated from The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in 1993.
Career[]
Winokur won the 2003 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical, Drama Desk Award, Theatre World Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award for her performance in Hairspray. She had previously appeared on Broadway as Jan in the 1994 revival of Grease.
Winokur has also played roles in films such as American Beauty, Never Been Kissed, Teaching Mrs. Tingle, the send-up Scary Movie, Beautiful Girl (for ABC Family), Fever Pitch. She provided one of the voices in Shrek the Halls, American Dad! and King of the Hill.
Winokur co-starred in the TV series Stacked, which starred Pamela Anderson. She also appeared on an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, where she lost a physical fight with Larry David over the first appointment at a doctor's office. She was called "Marissa Winokur" in the episode, but was credited simply as "Woman In Elevator."
She was set to star in a new comedy pilot for CBS titled Fugly, from Greg Garcia, the creator of My Name Is Earl. The show was originally pitched to Fox as a vehicle for Pamela Anderson. It was later revamped into a television film in 2007.
In 2008, Winokur was featured on Season 6 of Dancing With the Stars with professional dancer Tony Dovolani. She was eliminated after the semifinal round. Then, she returned to Hairspray on December 9, 2008, and played Tracy until the show's closing on January 4, 2009.
Winokur hosted the reality competition series Dance Your Ass Off on the Oxygen Network. In October 2010, she joined Julie Chen, Holly Robinson Peete, Sharon Osbourne, Leah Remini, and Sara Gilbert in a new talk show, The Talk, that was intended to focus on stories of parenting, everyday life and events in the headlines. The program began airing on CBS on October 18, 2010. On January 14, 2011, she announced that she would leave The Talk to focus on her clothing line and a new cable TV show she was developing.
Winokur reprised the role of Tracy Turnblad in the Hollywood Bowl production of Hairspray, which ran from August 5–7, 2011.
Winokur joined the cast of TV Land's original sitcom Retired at 35, beginning in the second season. She acted out the role of Amy, David’s sister, a sharp-tongued, quick-witted successful saleswoman for a pharmaceutical company with a bubbly personality. The character was originated by Casey Wilson in the show's pilot, but made no other Season 1 appearances.
In 2017, Winokur competed with her son Zev on Big Star Little Star, a U.S. version of the British game show Big Star's Little Star. The next year, Winokur was cast as one of the houseguests on the first American edition of Celebrity Big Brother. She won Celebrity Big Brother over Ross Mathews on February 25, 2018, by a vote of 6-3.
In 2018, Winokur was cast as Linda on A Million Little Things.
Personal life[]
During the early development stages of Hairspray, Winokur was diagnosed with cervical cancer. She underwent treatment for the disease, without revealing her condition to anyone except her immediate family out of fear that she would be replaced in the musical. Ultimately, she made a full recovery and remained in the show.
On October 7, 2006, Winokur married Judah Miller (brother to Murray Miller), who was a writer on Stacked. In March 2008, the couple announced that they were expecting their first child, a boy to be named Zev, via a surrogate mother and that the pregnancy was five months along. Zev Isaac Miller was born July 22, 2008. Winokur and Miller helped deliver their son.[17]
Winokur is the great-niece of two famous American writers: S. J. Perelman and Nathanael West.
Appearances[]
| A Million Little Things: Season 1 | ||||||||||
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| "Christmas Wishlist": | "Secrets and Lies": | "The Day Before...": | "Twelve Seconds": | "Someday": | "The Rock": | "The Rosary": | "Goodbye": | |||
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