Marlo Thomas | St. Jude Children's Hospital | Healthcare Award | Invisible Disabilities Association

As an actress, producer, author and social activist, Marlo Thomas continues to create meaningful and successful projects within all areas of the culture and entertainment community. She has been honored with four Emmys, nine Emmy nominations, a Golden Globe, the George Foster Peabody Award, the Grammy, the Helen Caldicott Award for Nuclear Disarmament, the Thomas Paine Award from the ACLU, and has been inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame.
Marlo burst onto the scene in television's That Girl, which broke new ground for independent women everywhere, and which she also conceived and produced. Her pioneering spirit continued with her creation of Free to Be...You and Me, a children's project that became a platinum album, best-selling book, Emmy Award-winning television special and a stage show.
Marlo was chosen for the 2013 IDA Healthcare Honor Awards as a result of her passion to help others through her books, activism and as the National Outreach Director for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, which her father founded in 1962. She is the driving force behind countless public awareness efforts to educate the public about the landmark and life-saving work being done every day at St. Jude-work that impacts the lives of children in communities across America and around the world. Her personal direct-mail campaigns and television specials have reached hundreds of millions of people across the country.
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