Celebrity Biographies
Marcia strassman
Marcia Strassman played the wife of Rick Moranis in the saga that began with “Honey I Shrunk the Kids.” The actress, popular in the United States for starring in the sitcom “Welcome Back, Kotter”, she died on October 25, 2014, at the age of 66, suffering from breast cancer, in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Born on April 28, 1948, New Yorker Marcia Strassman tried to make her way as a singer, but her singles didn’t quite catch on, so she was convinced to dedicate herself to the acting profession.
At the beginning of her career, she gave life to a nurse in various episodes of MASH , and in 1975 she triumphed with the series Welcome Back, Cotter , where she played Julie Kotter, the wife of a teacher at a high school with problematic students, including a very young John Travolta .
Later she ended up as an illustrious guest in productions such as Vacations at sea and Amazing Stories . She did not succeed again until Joe Johnston ‘s Honey, I Shrunk the Kids , where her character, housewife Diane Szalinski, discovers that her husband, an eccentric scientist, had accidentally shrunk the size of her neck. her children. The success of this Walt Disney production led to the sequel Honey, I have enlarged the child , where the actress resumed her role. She also shot the 3D short for Disneyland Honey, I Shrunk the Crowd .
In recent years, Strassman continued to be active, taking part in various series and telefilms. For example, she was a hippie artist on the SyFy series Tremors . The interpreter had married Robert Collector , screenwriter of Memoirs of an Invisible Man , with whom she had a son, before ending up divorcing.