Roseanne - Biography

Last Editor: gaelpolles				Roseanne Biography -   Name : Roseanne Birth Name : Roseanne Cherrie Barr Date of Birth : 3 November 1952 Place of Birth : Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Height : 5' 4'' Nationality : American Profession : Actor Sometimes Called : Roseane Arnold Roseanne Arnold Roseanne Barr Rosanne Roseanne Thomas

Roseanne Trivia -

Her daughter Brandi, Jennifer and Jessica Pentland all work with her on her talk show. Three children with Bill Pentland: Jennifer, Jessica and Jacob. One son with Ben Thomas: Buck. Has a daughter from a previous relationship named Brandy, whom she put up for adoption. Born at 1:21pm-MST. Had tubal ligation reversed in order to get pregnant with her son Buck. States she suffered from Multiple Personality Disorder. Attended Salt Lake High School East, but dropped out before graduating. On 9/17/1968, Roseanne was severely injured in a car crash, resulting in memory loss and nightmares. She was then admitted to a state mental hospital at age 17, but left after less than a year. At age 17, Roseanne left Utah and moved to Denver, CO, where she gave birth to daughter Brandi and then gave her up for adoption. Worked as a dishwasher, cook, and waitress. Collects pigs. Worked at Bennigan's restaurant. On 23 August 1985, Roseanne made her national TV debut, on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. This marked the turning point in her career, and she was deluged with job offers thereafter. In a 1991 People magazine interview, she claimed to have been an incest survivor, accusing both parents of physical and sexual abuse, charges which they have publically denied. Worked as a guest editor for the New Yorker magazine. Renewed wedding vows with now-estranged mate, her ex-bodyguard Ben Thomas, on the 1999 Valentine's Day edition of her TV talk show. First filed for divorce from Thomas in January 1998, claiming he was an abusive binge drinker who threatened to kidnap their son. Is a spokeswoman for various pro-choice groups, has asserted pro-choice views in publications such as "The Advocate," and has appeared at benefits sponsored by pro-choice organizations such as the Feminist Majority Foundation. In several episodes of "Roseanne," Roseanne Conner defends a woman's right to choose. Measurements: 40DD-30-38 (at her heaviest weight), 40D-28-37 (after reduction surgery), 38C-28-37 (after 2nd procedure) (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine) Speaking of her breast reduction surgery in 1991, "I was a 40DD but now I'm a 38C". Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith. pg. 26-28. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387. Chosen as #9 in Comedy Central's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time, the highest ranking woman.

Roseanne Detailed Biography -

Roseanne Barr's story has become one of the most controversial of any actress. Roseanne dropped out of high school when she was 17 years old. After a car accident, she admitted herself into a mental institute claiming she was having nightmares and memory loss. When Roseanne left the institute in less than a year, she gave birth to her first daughter Brandi Brown, and gave her up for adoption. Shortly after, Roseanne began working at a restaurant as a dishwasher. Her hilarious comments to the customers she waited on led her to doing stand up comedy at the restaurant. After her first TV appearance on "The Tonight Show" in 1985, she wound up in her own stand up comedy HBO show, "The Roseanne Barr Show". This led to the sitcom "Roseanne", which dealt with real life issues in the lower-middle class working family. During its first season on ABC, it leaped to #2. After the sitcom's first season, Roseanne Barr became a public enemy when she gave a screeching, crotch-grabbing performance of "The Star Spangled Banner" at a baseball game. When Roseanne divorced her first husband, Bill Pentland (whom she has been married to for 16 years), in 1990 and married "Roseanne" co-star Tom Arnold only four days later, she was already beginning her downward spiral. In 1991, Roseanne started to be billed as Roseanne Arnold. Around this time, Roseanne began to claim that she had been physically and sexually abused as a child, as well as her siblings. Both her siblings and parents denied the charges, and lie detector tests used on Roseanne's parents came back with negative results. The court battles led to 10 years of no contact with her parents or siblings. Roseanne's marriage with Arnold lasted 4 years before she filed for divorce against him for charges of physical abuse and domestic violence. (To this day, it is still unknown if the accusations were true.) Although Roseanne still insisted that he hit her, she admits that he never abused her children. (three from her previous marriage: Jessica, Jennifer, and Jacob Pentland. She had still not been reunited with her daughter Brandi Brown whom she gave up for adoption when she was 17). Tom Arnold's exit from Roseanne Arnold's sitcom luckily happened towards the end of the 6th season and allowed the show to have an (almost) smooth ending. However, after season 6 of "Roseanne", the plot started to run dry and ratings began to drop. The season following her divorce, she insisted on being billed without a surname; for the remainder of the sitcom's run, she was credited simply as Roseanne. A year after her bitter divorce with Arnold, she remarried to bodyguard Benjamin Thomas. With Thomas, she had her tubal ligation surgery reversed in order to become pregnant with her fifth child, Buck Thomas. In 1997, she slowly tried to be known as Roseanne Thomas. She was billed as Roseanne Thomas in the last few episodes of "Roseanne" (as executive producer; she was still credited as Roseanne under the cast) and she guest starred "The Nanny" as Roseanne Thomas in late 1997. In 2002, Roseanne filed for divorce against Thomas for the second time (the first time, charges were dropped), claiming that he threatened to run off with their son. Two years later, Roseanne ended the feud with her parents and siblings and went back to being billed as Roseanne Barr. Today, 52-year-old Roseanne Barr Pentland Arnold Thomas spends her time with her now 8-year-old son, Buck, in her new home in California.