Tracy Reiner had a famous father, but has preferred living her life out of the spotlight.
Tracy Reiner’s upbringing
Tracy was born in 1946 to Michael Henry and Penny Marshall. Her mother later married famed director Rob Reiner, who officially adopted Tracy and became her main father figure.
In the wake of Rob and his second wife Michele Reiner’s, tragic deaths, Tracy has kept quiet, aside from one public statement about the tragedy.
“I came from the greatest family ever,” she told NBC News last month after Rob, 78, and Michele, 70, were fatally stabbed inside their Brentwood home with son Nick, 32 arrested in the double murder.
“I don’t know what to say,” Tracy added. “I’m in shock.”
Marshall was a 19-year-old student at the University of New Mexico when she got pregnant with Tracy. Henry, for his part, was an 18-year-old college football player.
During a 2012 interview with Newsweek, Marshall opened up on her teen pregnancy, including her decision to keep the baby.
“This was 1963 — there were no legal abortions in the U.S., and I wasn’t going to go to Juárez, you know?” she said.
“Girls then were going horseback riding to try to end their pregnancies. I didn’t do that. I figured I made my bed, so I’m going to sleep in it. My third choice was moving to Amarillo. I’d never been there, but I was thinking I’d go and have the baby by myself.
“But instead Mickey said, Let’s get married. He was a great guy. We ended up getting married the weekend John F. Kennedy got shot. All that was on the TV during our honeymoon in a motel was the funeral, which set the tone.”
Marshall told the outlet that she and Henry later got divorced and he moved to Colorado where he remarried and had another daughter.
When Tracy was 8, she moved with her mom to California, where Marshall’s older brother, a comedy writer, was working with Rob’s father, Carl Reiner, which is how Marshall and Rob met. Once Marshall and Rob tied the knot in 1971, Rob began raising Tracy as his own daughter. Tracy even took Rob’s last name.
