伦纳德·尼莫伊出生于波士顿，他的父母是从俄罗斯移民到美国的母语为意第绪语的犹太人。他的母亲是一名家庭主妇，他的父亲开了一家理发馆。他从八岁左右开始表演，17岁时获得了一个主角。
Armed with an acid dry wit and a full arsenal of sarcasm and sass, African-American character comedienne Marla Gibbs showed up on 70s TV with a bang in middle age (44). Landing the feisty maid role on the popular ground-breaking CBS comedy, The Jeffersons (1975), eventually led to her very own sitcom, 227 (1985), a decade later and international celebrity. A divorced mother with three children (Angela Elayne Gibbs, Dorian, Joseph) 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.
