Age: 62
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Janeane Garofalo (born September 28, 1964) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, political activist and writer. She is the former co-host on the now defunct Air America Radio's The Majority Report. Garofalo continues to circulate regularly within New York City's local comedy and performance art scene. Description above from the Wikipedia article Janeane Garofalo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
She left the music industry after one album. She opened a flower shop in New Jersey. She is not, it turns out, finished. A lighter, warmer series than either of the other two — The Florist follows Mara Agosto, 29, who walked away from a promising music career after one album that didn't perform as expected and opened a flower shop in Hoboken, New Jersey, where she is genuinely happy in ways the industry never made her. Three seasons track her life in the shop, her community, and the slow return of music to her life through the back door — initially as background, then as comfort, then as identity reclaimed on her own terms. The central romance is with her neighbor Eli, a quietly extraordinary person who knew her for two full seasons before discovering her music history and doesn't change a single thing about how he treats her afterward. Season 1 — The Shop Mara in Hoboken. The shop, the community, the happiness she built without a plan. Eli appearing in episode two. Season 2 — The Discovery Eli finding the album. The scene where he tells her he found it — and says what he actually thinks of it — is the series' emotional peak. Season 3 — The Song Mara writing one song. Just one. For herself. Nobody else. The series finale's final scene.
