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==Early life and education== Robert Doyle Marshall Jr. was born in [[Madison, Wisconsin]].<ref name=filmreference /> His father and namesake, Robert Doyle Marshall Sr., was a Ph.D. student at the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]],<ref>{{cite thesis|url=https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/999873358002121|title=Dogmatic formalism to practical humanism: changing attitudes towards the passion of Christ in medieval English literature|last=Marshall|first=Robert Doyle|type=Ph.D.|date=1965|publisher=University of Wisconsin–Madison}}</ref><ref name=UPitt>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bulletins.pitt.edu/archive/fas97/11.html|title=Faculty of Arts and Sciences}}</ref> and his mother Anne was a teacher.<ref name="dove into"/> Like him, his younger sister [[Kathleen Marshall|Kathleen]] became a choreographer and director.<ref name=RawsonPPG>{{cite news|last=Rawson|first=Christopher|title=Two Marshalls win Governor's Awards for the Arts|url=http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/ae/in-the-wings/two-marshalls-win-governors-awards-for-the-arts-498459/|newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|date=August 22, 2007}}</ref> In 1964, Robert Marshall joined the English department at the [[University of Pittsburgh]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.english.pitt.edu/history/1787-footnotes |title=1787-1819 Footnotes | English | University of Pittsburgh |access-date=2019-04-28 |archive-date=2019-04-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190428041522/http://www.english.pitt.edu/history/1787-footnotes |url-status=dead }}</ref> and the Marshall family relocated to [[Pittsburgh]].<ref name="dove into">{{cite web|url=http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/movies/2011/05/20/Director-Rob-Marshall-dove-into-Pirates-of-the-Caribbean-On-Stranger-Tides/stories/201105200165|title=Director Rob Marshall dove into 'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides'|newspaper=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]|date=May 20, 2011|first=Barbara|last= Vancheri|archive-date=November 8, 2014|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141108141035/http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/movies/2011/05/20/Director-Rob-Marshall-dove-into-Pirates-of-the-Caribbean-On-Stranger-Tides/stories/201105200165|url-status=live}}</ref> Anne would later work for [[Pittsburgh Public Schools]] and the [[University of Pittsburgh School of Education]], and Robert would become associate professor of English and dean of the [[Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences|College of Arts and Sciences]] at the same university.<ref name="dove into"/> Rob Marshall graduated from the [[Fanny Edel Falk Laboratory School|Falk School]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/movies/2011/11/11/Rob-Marshall-proves-you-can-go-home-again/stories/201111110157 |title=Rob Marshall proves you can go home again|first=Barbara |last= Vancheri| newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|date=November 11, 2011 |access-date= December 3, 2018| archive-date=December 3, 2018|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181203134349/https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/movies/2011/11/11/Rob-Marshall-proves-you-can-go-home-again/stories/201111110157|url-status=live}}</ref> and then in 1978 from [[Taylor Allderdice High School]], into whose alumni hall of fame he later was inducted.<ref>{{cite news|title=Allderdice to induct 6 to Alumni Hall of Fame|url=https://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2011/10/31/Allderdice-to-induct-6-to-Alumni-Hall-of-Fame/stories/201110310301|access-date=December 3, 2018 |newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|date=October 31, 2011| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180518195924/https://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2011/10/31/Allderdice-to-induct-6-to-Alumni-Hall-of-Fame/stories/201110310301| archive-date= May 18, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> Graduating from [[Carnegie Mellon University]] in 1982,<ref name="all honorees"/><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.alumni.cmu.edu/s/1410/images/editor_documents/alumnirelations/about/notable/notable-alumni.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2019-04-28 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304035932/http://www.alumni.cmu.edu/s/1410/images/editor_documents/alumnirelations/about/notable/notable-alumni.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> Marshall worked in the [[Theatre in Pittsburgh|Pittsburgh theatre scene]], performing with such companies as [[Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera]].<ref>Conner, Lynne (2007). Pittsburgh In Stages: Two Hundred Years of Theater. University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 204. {{ISBN|978-0-8229-4330-3}}. Retrieved 2011-06-06</ref>
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