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Rob Reiner family: All on wife Michele, ex-wife Penny Marshall, and children Tracy, Jake, Romy and Nick
Two people have been found dead inside a Brentwood home owned by director and actor Rob Reiner. Here's what to know about his family.
Two people were found dead inside a Brentwood home owned by director and actor Rob Reiner on Sunday, December 14, several law enforcement sources told NBCLA. The LA Fire Department said a man and a woman – approximately 78 and 68 years old – were found dead inside.
Neighbors said that Rob and his wife live in the home. According to property records, they own the home.
Who are Rob Reiner’s ex-wife, wife, and children?
Rob married actress and director Penny Marshall in 1971, and adopted her daughter, actress Tracy Reiner, from a previous marriage to Michael Henry. Rob and Penny divorced in 1981.
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Rob was introduced to his second and current wife, actress and photographer Michele Singer Reiner, while directing When Harry Met Sally. The two tied the knot in 1989, and share three children – Jake (born 1991), Nick (born 1993), and Romy (born 1997).
Besides photography, Michelle acted in the 1994 film Mixed Nuts, starring Steve Martin. She notably worked in the Camera and Electrical Department as a photographer in the 1990 movie Misery. She also served as a producer in the 2017 movie Shock and Awe, and the HBO documentary movie Albert Brooks: Defending My Life. Both of these were directed by her husband.
Rob’s former wife Penny, a beloved sitcom and screen actress who gained fame in the late ’70s for her sitcom Laverne & Shirley, died aged 75 in 2018 at her Hollywood Hills home of complications from diabetes. She had been diagnosed with brain and lung cancer in 2009, before she went into remission by 2012.
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With Big, Penny became the first woman in Hollywood history in 1988 to direct a movie that grossed more than $100 million at the box office. Her drama Awakenings earned a Best Picture nomination just two years later, and she topped $100 million again with A League of Their Own in 1992.
What to know about the recent case
LAPD Robbery Homicide Division detectives were assigned to the case. There was a huge police presence at the home after the bodies were found on Sunday.
Around 3:30 pm, LAFD paramedics were reportedly called to the home on Chadbourne Avenue. LAPD officers were soon dispatched to the home for a report of an, "ambulance death investigation," a phrase used when officers are called by firefighters to the discovery of a death.
