Roseanne Barr

In 1974, Barr married Bill Pentland, a motel clerk, in Colorado and the couple had three children: Jessica, Jennifer and Jake. The marriage worked out for 16 years and they got divorced in 1990.

Barr married a fellow comedian, Tom Arnold, in 1990. She met him for the first time in Minneapolis, where her stand-up act was opened by him. The marriage only lasted until 1994.

She got married for the third time to Ben Thomas, her personal security guard, in 1995. The couple went through in-vitro fertilization to have a son named Buck. Their marriage survived until 2002.

Roseanne Barr was born on November 3, 1952, in Salt Lake City to Helen and Jerome Hershel Barr. Her father was a salesman while mother a bookkeeper. She belonged to a working-class Jewish family.

Barr had a difficult childhood as she suffered from Bell’s palsy when she was three years old. She also suffered with a traumatic brain injury at the age of 16, which led to her institutionalization at Utah State Hospital.

During the early 80s, Burr decided to become a stand-up comedian, for which she used her experiences as a mother and a wife as her comic material and performed at local clubs in Denver and Colorado.

She also made little appearances on major shows like, ‘The Comedy Store’, ‘The Tonight Show’, ‘Late Night with David Letterman’ and in 1987, she had her own show on HBO, ‘The Roseanne Barr Show’.

From 1988-1997, Barr became a popular television figure with her own show on ABC, ‘Roseanne’. She played herself in the sitcom—hard and soft, wise-cracking mother. It won her many awards like, Emmy, Golden Globe, Kids’ Choice Award.

While she was still a rage on the television, Barr released her autobiography in 1989, titled ‘Roseanne - My Life As a Woman’. She also appeared in the movie, ‘She-Devil’ in the same year.

Throughout the ‘90s, she did variety of entertainment projects like: voice-over for ‘Look Who’s Talking Too (1991)’, appearances on ‘Saturday Night Live’ and released another autobiographical account, titled ‘My Life (1994)’.

Barr’s most prominent work is considered to be her shown on ABC, ‘Roseanne’ that ran for 9 seasons. The portrayal of the character, which was close to her personal life, earned her prestigious awards like, Emmy, Golden Globe, etc.