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Marla Gibbs
Marla Gibbs portrayed the character Rose in årstid four of ABC's Scandal.
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Marla Gibbs is an American actress, comedian, singer, writer and producer, whose career spans five decades.
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Gibbs got her first acting job in the early s, in the blaxploitation films Sweet Jesus, Preacher Man and Black Belt Jones. In she was cast as Florence Johnston, the family's maid, in the CBS comedy series The Jeffersons. For her performance on the series, Gibbs was nominated for an Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series fem times, and once for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television spelfilm.
In , she starred in the short-lived spin-off of The Jeffersons, titled Checking In. In , when The Jeffersons was cancelled after 11 seasons, Gibbs was the lead actress in the NBC sitcom, . The series aired until , producing episodes. Two decades later, Gibbs teamed again with for
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Armed with an acid dry wit and a full arsenal of sarcasm and sass, African-American character comedienne Marla Gibbs showed up on s television with a bang in middle age (44). Landing the feisty maid role on the popular ground-breaking CBS sitcom The Jeffersons (), eventually led to her very own sitcom () a decade later and international celebrity. A divorced mother with three children (Angela Elayne Gibbs, Dorian Gibbs, Joseph Gibbs) at the time of her initial success, it was a job transfer from Detroit to Los Angeles, while working as a United Airlines reservation clerk, that set up this more-than-welcome surprise and change of destiny.
Born in Chicago on June 14, , Marla attended Peters Business School () following high school and toiled for a time as a receptionist and switchboard operator in the Detroit area. Eventually, she secured work with United Airlines. After moving to Southern California on a transfer, Marla gave acting a try and initially studied at the M