- She finished her sophomore year at Miami University of Oxford Ohio and was hired by the Milwaukee Opera Company, the Skylight Opera company and the Great American Children's Theatre 1978-1980.
- She has been a co-host and psychic medium expert for author Whitley Strieber's radio web cast Dreamland, interviewing authors about their cutting edge books.
- Marla no longer works as an actress. She left the business in 2002 to work as an international psychic medium and transformational consciousness coach.
- Marla was raised in Bedford, Pennsylvania.
- The vast majority of her work over the past 3 decades has consisted of guest starring roles on TV, stage work in plays and musicals and numerous TV commercials; the most popular being "Flo" the robotic mother in a three year campaign for Duracell Battery commercials directed by Barry Sonnenfeld.
- Marla changed her birth name of Marla Fries to Marla Frees in 1991 after Matthew Diamond (who was directing Marla in an episode of Working Girl) suggested it.
- Marla is a Graduate of the Monroe Institute of Consciousness.
- She was nominated for a 1990 "Joseph Jefferson Award" for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical, as Lina Lamont, in "Singin in the Rain" at the Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook, Illinois.
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