The indigene of Maryland, she graduated from Robert E. Peary High School in Rockville, Maryland in 1982 where she pursued her love of photography.

It wasn't until 1992 that Marshall gained audience attention when she experienced the 3 episode guest role on The Wonder Years, and guest starred in more shows like Seinfeld, Nash Bridges and Diagnosis Murder. Within 1994 she got her foremost sitcom role in Wild Oats, which was cancelled in its 1st year. Fallowing two or three years around B-movies, Marshall gained another series by using 1997's Chicago Sons which fared no better. 1997 wasn't the bad seasin for Marshall though, when she experienced a revenant role on Spin City, and starred alongside Bette Midler and Dennis Farina in the film That Old Feeling.

Around 1998, Marshall's third television series - Rob Thomas's Cupid premiered. A series featured Marshall when Dr. Claire Allen, the head-shrinker world health organization incline charge of the human known as Trevor (Jeremy Piven) who thinks he is Cupid sent down from Mt. Olympus by Zeus to connect 100 couples without his powers, as a punishment. the series gained the microscopic however dedicated fanbase, however encountered itself within a bad timeslot & was cancelled. Prior to a season was retired, still, Marshall got joined Gina Gershon and her That Old Feeling co-star Danny Nucci on David E. Kelley's Snoops about a less-than-conventional detective agency. Inside its number 1 year, it was too cancelled.

Within 2000, Marshall returned to television screens: first by using the 3-episode guest arc as a porn star and love interest for Jeremy (Joshua Malina) on Aaron Sorkin's Sports Night, and then within her fifth TV series Cursed (a.k.a The Weber Show). Fallowing its foremost year, Cursed was besides off & Marshall remained off camera until 2002, when she guest starred in Just Shoot Me as the girl of Nina (Wendie Malick). Prior to a month was retired, Good Shoot Us got been cancelled & Marshall experienced her sixth series: Hidden Hills.

Hidden Hills was an far-out comedy astir tierce families inside suburbithe & was a modest profits however was non renewed for another year. Marshall resurfaced around the secondary role in the Steve Martin-Bonnie Hunt remake of Cheaper by the Dozen and had the cameo appearance within Break a Leg, a movie star Jennifer Beals and Danny Nucci, who by nowadays was dating Marshall. In October 12 2003, the two were married. Paula gave birth to her & Danny Nucci's number one tike inside March of 2005.

Inside 2004, Marshall guest starred on an episode of Alicia Silverstone's Miss Match, but a series was cancelled prior to her episode aired. Within October, she had the 3-episode role in first-year series Veronica Mars, which was created by Cupid's Rob Thomas. Veronica Mars is at present renewed for another year. Thomas has stated that he'd rather to develop Marshall back on the indicate at a select few point - & wants to reunite her by using her Cupid co-stars Jeremy Piven and Jeffrey D. Sams - who has a recurring role on the series.

Marshall is presently the independent cast member in Out of Practice, her seventh main role in the television program.

Marshall has too been cast inside many pilots that never had picked higher - including a Elizabeth Lackey series Cooking Lessons, & Rob Thomas's Sticks.