Penny Marshall

Penny Marshall (b. 1942) is an actress and director and sister of noted sitcom creator Gary Marshall. Perhaps best known as Laverne in Laverne and Shirley, Penny Marshall appeared with the Sesame Street muppets, and Rosie O'Donnell, in a variety of commercials and public appearances in the late 1990s, as promotion for K-Mart.

She was also attached as director for the proposed film of Into the Woods at one point.