One Day at a Time (1975-1984) as Ann Romano / Ann Romano Royer
The Law (1974) as Bobbie Stone
Sister Margaret and the Saturday Night Ladies (1987) as Sister Margaret
Invisible Diplomats (1965) as Trudy
Short Info
Date Of Birth
January 6, 1944
Died
March 1, 2013, Los Angeles, California, United States
Spouse
Marvin Minoff (m. 1980–2009), Ronald Sossi (m. 1967–1970)
Mark
Deep sultry voice.
Fact
She once said that because of her red hair and freckles, fans have a hard time believing that she is Jewish.
Bonnie Franklin, best known for her starring role on the hit television series One Day at a Time, was born on January 6, 1944 in Santa Monica, California. Her parents, Sam and Claire Franklin, were both successful Hollywood agents. Bonnie has two older sisters, Barbara and Beverly. She was educated at the prestigious Beverly Hills High School, where she was a cheerleader and member of the drama club. After graduation, she attended the University of California at Los Angeles, where she studied drama.
Franklin’s first professional acting job was in a 1967 episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. She went on to guest star on such popular television shows as The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, and Hart to Hart. In 1975, she landed the role of Ann Romano on One Day at a Time. The show was an instant hit, and Franklin became a household name. She starred on the show for nine seasons, until it was cancelled in 1984.
After One Day at a Time ended, Franklin appeared in a number of made-for-television movies and guest-starred on several television series. In 2001, she made her Broadway debut in the play The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife. In recent years, she has appeared on such shows as Hot in Cleveland and The Young and the Restless.
Franklin has been married twice. Her first marriage, to Marvin Minoff, ended in divorce after just two years. Her second marriage, to film producer Marvin Rosenblum, lasted from 1982 until his death in 2009. She has no children.
Franklin has been nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and two Emmy Awards. In 2010, she was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame.
Franklin has an estimated net worth of $8 million.
General Info
Full Name
Bonnie Franklin
Date Of Birth
January 6, 1944
Died
March 1, 2013, Los Angeles, California, United States
Height
1.6 m
Profession
Actor, Television Director
Education
University of California, Los Angeles, Smith College, Beverly Hills High School
Nationality
American
Family
Spouse
Marvin Minoff (m. 1980–2009), Ronald Sossi (m. 1967–1970)
Parents
Samuel Benjamin Franklin, Claire Hersch Franklin
Siblings
Victoria Kupetz, Judith Bush, Bernard Franklin, Richard Franklin
Accomplishments
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
[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.