Comedian Rosie O'Donnell moved from standup to television, film, and the Broadway stage before finding widespread success as a talk-show host. She attended Dickinson College and Boston University, then turned to comedy as a career. In 1986, she became a regular on the last season of the network TV sitcom #Gimme a Break! and in 1992 co-starred on the short-lived series #Stand by Your Man. Her film breakthrough came later in 1992 with #A League of Their Own, a film about a women's baseball league during World War II. After that, she began to get frequent film roles as a comic character actress and appeared in #Another Stakeout, #Sleepless in Seattle, #Car 54 Where Are You?, #Exit to Eden, #The Flintstones, #I'll Do Anything, and #Now and Then through 1995. She also made her Broadway debut as Rizzo in a revival of #Grease. In the 1995-1996 television season, she premiered as a daytime talk-show host on #Rosie and proved an immediate success. The show vastly increased her recognition and she went on to become a major celebrity, hosting awards programs and continuing to make the occasional film. In 1999, she lent her voice to the animated movie #Tarzan and sang on the soundtrack album. That year, she also released a seasonal collection, A Rosie Christmas, on which she performed duets with various well-known performers, with the proceeds being donated to a children's charity foundation she had established. A second collection, Another Rosie Christmas, followed in 2000. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi