Marie Osmond

She is the co-founder of Children's Miracle Network with actor John Schneider. She was also nominated for a 2002 Emmy Award for best guest actress in a drama series. Currently, Marie hosts her own radio show, Marie and Friends, a nationally syndicated program. As of 2002 she continues to perform in films while pursing stage acting with The Steppenwolf Theater Company (most notably in Hedda Gabler). The film was produced by Jimmy Osmond. She was the lead in a short-run television show on HBO called The Defenders. She appeared as herself in the 2001 TV movie Inside the Osmonds, which showed how the brothers' egos, their father's fiscal mismanagement, and the family's quest to build a multi-media empire led to their downfall. In the 1990s she developed a reputation for being a very professional actress, taking many smaller roles in mainstream films like Beautiful Girls and in films like 200 Cigarettes and John Waters' Pecker.

She returned to television with brother Donny in 1998 to cohost the Donny and Marie Show, a talk/entertainment show that lasted two seasons. In the film The Mosquito Coast she met boyfriend River Phoenix, whom she later left because of his drug use. She garnered rave reviews as Anna in "The King and I" and Maria in "The Sound of Music" in the mid 90s, taking a break from her country music success. After her part in the cult classic The Goonies she built up a reputation for being able to play rebellious tomboys, appearing in such films as Shy People, Silence Like Glass and Stars and Bars. She also starred in the TV movies "The Gift of Love" and "I Married Wyatt Earp". She began her career in the 1980s in the film The River Rat. Marie played her mother in the TV movie Side by Side: The True Story of the Osmond Family. Martha Plimpton (born November 16, 1970) was born from Hollywood blood with parents Keith Carradine and Shelley Plimpton.

She has also admitted to a not-always smooth relationship with her current husband. Perhaps the only dent in her squeaky-clean image is her divorce after 2 years of marriage (her religion, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints discourages divorce; her older brother, Tom, divorced his first wife). A regular on QVC, where her "Marie Osmond Fine Porcelain Collector Dolls" is its top-selling line, she has 8 children (5 adopted). Her husband eventually reached her by cell phone, and convinced her to come home.

She became so despondent, she left her family, planning never to return. In October 1999, she disclosed she suffered from severe postpartum depression following the birth of her son. She and Donny also had a hit variety show, Donny & Marie (1976-1979). She has charted with her brother Donny ("I'm Leaving It All Up To You"; "Deep Purple"), Dan Seals ("Meet Me in Montana"), and Paul Davis ("I Only Wanted You").

At age 13, her song "Paper Roses" debuted at #1, the first time in country music history a female artist had done that. The only daughter of George and Olive Osmond and the 8th of their 9 children, Marie has released many albums and appeared on television for over 40 years. Olive Marie Osmond (born October 13, 1959 in Ogden, Utah) is an American entertainer, a member of the show business family, The Osmonds.