Name: Marilyn Jones
Born: 6 June 1953
Place: Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA
Born the oldest of four kids to a surgeon father, Marilyn Jones was born and raised in
the tiny Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe. After graduating from high school in Michigan,
Jones attended Miami University (Ohio) and eventually graduated from the University of
Colorado with a humanities degree. After a stint in New York waiting on tables and working
as an office clerk in between acting jobs, she was signed with 30 other performers to
Columbia Pictures' Talent and Development Workshop and sent to Los Angeles. The program
folded when the executive who ran the studio at the time resigned. Jones managed to land
an agent and began acting in episodic television. Her performances in the
"Harassment" episode of "Lou Grant" (1977) and in part 1 of the
"Good-Bye Radar" episode of "M*A*S*H" (1972) were especially strong.
She landed roles in two short-lived primetime soaps, "Secrets of Midland
Heights" (1980) for CBS and "King's Crossing" (1982) for ABC. She worked
steadily throughout the 1980s.
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