MARLA GIBBS | 90

Marla Gibbs has a career that spans for five decades. Now celebrating her golden year as an actress, she continues to give her best in every project she receives.She played supporting roles in different films like The Visit, Madea’s Witness Protection, The Brothers, The Meteor Man, Lost and Found, and Station 19. Her most recent works are in the 2019 El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie and in the 2020 TV show, One Day at a Time.

But Gibbs became a household name for her performance in the CBS sitcom, The Jeffersons, in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. Though she didn’t get nominations and awards, she is still one of the great actresses who shows great passion for acting. She is also a singer and had investments in a jazz club called Marla’s Memory Lane Jazz and Supper Club, which ran for 18 years until it closed in 1999.

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