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Hello fans,
Actress Carol Kane is well-known for her roles on
television, in movies, and on Broadway. She has
starred on the hit show Taxi, appeared in Woody Allen's
major film Annie Hall, and has appeared in the popular
Broadway production Wicked. Let's find out more about
her career and where she is now!
Take care,
Melissa
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--DEAD OR ALIVE?
See if you know if the following celebrities have had a
visit from the "Grim Reaper":
Broderick Crawford: Gruff, tough-talking actor who appeared
in movies for forty years, starred in "All the King's Men"
and "Born Yesterday"
Stephen Rea: Starred in the movie "The Crying Game", he has
also appeared in "Interview with the Vampire", "Princess
Caraboo", "Prêt-à-Porter" and other movies
Alan King: Comedian and actor, he had a long stand-up career
that included many appearances on the "Ed Sullivan Show",
he was the abbot of the New York Friars Club and hosted
their celebrity roasts, as an actor he appeared in "Just
Tell Me What You Want", "Casino" and other movies
(Answer at the bottom)
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Carol Kane
http://www.celebritynooz.com/carol_kane.aspx
BIRTH DATE: June 18, 1952, Cleveland, Ohio
BIRTH NAME: Carolyn Laurie Kane
CLAIM TO FAME: She is best-known for playing Simka
Dahblitz-Gravas, wife of Latka Gravas (Andy Kaufman), on
the television series Taxi from 1981 to 1983.
FAMILY LIFE: She is the daughter of Joy, a jazz singer,
teacher, dancer, and pianist, and Michael Kane, an architect
who worked for the World Bank. Her parents divorced when
she was 12.
INFO: Kane made her professional debut in a theatre
production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1966). She
starred on the TV series Taxi from 1981-1983 as Simka
Dahblitz-Gravas, wife of Latka Gravas (Andy Kaufman), and
earned two Emmy Awards for her work on the show. She has
appeared in Woody Allen's film Annie Hall as Allison
Portchnik, in 1987's The Princess Bride and 1988's Scrooged,
with Bill Murray.
Kane was a regular on the 1986 NBC series All Is Forgiven,
and on the 1990-1991 NBC series American Dreamer, and she
also guest-starred on a 1994 episode of Seinfeld and had a
supporting role in the short-lived 1996-1997 sitcom Pearl,
which starred Rhea Perlman.
Continued below....
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TRIVIA: Comes from a Jewish family.
Appeared in the music video and sang in the choir on the
song "Voices That Care."
Is a vegetarian.
Attended the Cherry Lawn School, a progressive boarding
school in Darien, Connecticut, until 1965.
Attended the Professional Children's School in New York
City.
WHERE IS SHE NOW: In 2009, she appeared on an episode of
Two and a Half Men as the mother of Alan Harper's
receptionist.
In 2010, she starred in the Off-Broadway play Love, Loss
and What I Wore, and also appeared on an episode of Ugly
Betty as Justin Suarez's acting teacher.
She is currently starring in a revival of Lillian Hellman's
drama The Children's Hour, at London's Comedy Theatre,
alongside Keira Knightley, Elisabeth Moss and Ellen Burstyn.
From 2005 to 2009, Kane played the evil headmistress Madame
Morrible in various productions of the hit Broadway musical
Wicked.
She first worked on the 1st National Tour of the production
from March-December 2005, reprising it for Broadway in 2006,
and later as part of the Los Angeles production.
She also moved with the L.A. company to play the role again
in the San Francisco production from January through March
2009.
WRITE TO CAROL KANE:
Office: Krost/Chapin Artists Talent Agency
9911 West Pico Blvd., Ph. I
Los Angeles, CA 90035
Video Clips of Carol Kane
The Princess Bride: Special Edition Trailer
http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=5546
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CREDITS:
2011 Should've Been Romeo (filming)...Ruth
2010 Pete Smalls Is Dead
2010 My Girlfriend's Boyfriend...Barbara
2010 The Bounty Hunter...Dawn
2010 Ugly Betty (TV series)...Lena Korvinka
All the World's a Stage
2009 Monk (TV series)...Joy
Mr. Monk Is the Best Man
2009 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV series)...Gwen Munch
Zebras
2009 Two and a Half Men (TV series)...Shelly
David Copperfield Slipped Me a Roofie
Thank God for Scoliosis
2008 Four Christmases...Aunt Sarah (uncredited)
2008 Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five (video short)...Sheep (voice)
2007 The Key Man...Marsha
2006 The Year Without a Santa Claus (TV movie)...Mother Nature
2005 The Happy Elf (video)...Gilda (voice)
2005 The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (TV series)...Mrs. Claus
Billy and Mandy Save Christmas (2005)
2005 The Civilization of Maxwell Bright...Temple
2005 The Pacifier...Helga
2004 Hope & Faith (TV series)...Cornelia Rackett
Faith Scare-Field
2004 Independent Lens (TV series documentary)...Mrs. Shaw
Cosmopolitan
2004 Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen...Miss Baggoli
2003 Audrey's Rain (TV movie)...Missy Flanders
2003 Cosmopolitan (TV movie)...Mrs. Shaw
2002 Love in the Time of Money...Joey
2002 That's Life (TV series)...Gloria
Baum's Thesis
2002 The Grubbs (TV series)...Sophie Grubb
2001 Family Guy (TV series)...Carol
Emission Impossible
2001 The Shrink Is In...Dr. Louise Rosenberg
2001 My First Mister...Mrs. Benson
2001 D.C. Smalls (short)...Mom
2000 As Told by Ginger (TV series)...Maude
Carl and Maude
1999-2000 Beggars and Choosers (TV series)...Lydia Luddin
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The Cherry Orchard: Part 2
The Mountainmen: Part 2
2000 The Office Party (short)...Linda
1999 The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald: The Visitors from Outer Space (video short)...Org's Mom (voice)
1999 Blue's Big Treasure Hunt (video short)...Little Miss Muffet (voice)
1999 Noah's Ark (TV movie)...Sarah
1999 The Tic Code...Miss Gimpole
1999 Jawbreaker...Ms. Sherwood
1999 Tomorrow by Midnight...Officer Garfield
1998 The First Seven Years (TV short)...Mrs. Feld
1997 Merry Christmas, George Bailey (TV movie)...Cousin Tilly / Mrs. Hatch
1997 Homicide: Life on the Street (TV series)...Gwen Munch
All Is Bright
1997 The Tony Danza Show (TV series)...Simka Gravaas
The Milk Run
1997 Hey Arnold! (TV series)...Emily Dickinson Trophy
Freeze Frame/Phoebe Cheats
1997 Office Killer...Dorine Douglas
1996-1997 Pearl (TV series)...Annie Carmen / Annie Caraldo
1997 Gone Fishin'...Donna Waters
1996 American Strays...Helen
1996 Trees Lounge...Connie
1996 The Pallbearer...Tom's Mother
1996 Sunset Park...Mona
1996 Ellen (TV series)...Lily Penney
A Penney Saved
1996 Big Bully...Faith Bigger
1995 Theodore Rex (video)...Molly Rex (voice)
1995 Chicago Hope (TV series)...Marguerite Birch
Stand
1995 Freaky Friday (TV movie)...Leanne Futterman
1995 Napoleon...Spider (voice) (scenes deleted)
1995 A.J.'s Time Travelers (TV series)...Emily Roebling
Brooklyn Bridge
1995 The Crazysitter...Treva Van Arsdale
1995 Dad, the Angel & Me (TV movie)...The Angel
1994 Empty Nest (TV series)...Shelby
The Courtship of Carol's Father
1994 Aladdin (TV series)...StinkerBelle (1994) (voice)
1994 Seinfeld (TV series)...Corinne
The Marine Biologist
1993 Addams Family Values...Grandma
1993 Eligible Dentist (TV movie)
1993 Even Cowgirls Get the Blues...Carla
1993 Tribeca (TV series)...Amanda
1993 When a Stranger Calls Back (TV movie)...Jill Johnson
1992 Baby on Board...Maria
1992 The Ray Bradbury Theater (TV series)...Polly
Tomorrow's Child
1991-1992 Brooklyn Bridge (TV series)...Aunt Sylvia
1992 In the Soup...Barbara
1992 Sibs (TV series)
The Crash: Part 1 (1992)
The Crash: Part 2 (1992)
1991 Ted & Venus...Colette
1990-1991 American Dreamer (TV series)...Lillian Abernathy
1990 Tiny Toon Adventures (TV series)...Ollie
A Quack in the Quarks
1990/I My Blue Heaven...Shaldeen
1990 Tales from the Crypt (TV series)...Judy
Judy, You're Not Yourself Today
1990 Joe Versus the Volcano...Hairdresser (as Lisa LeBlanc)
1990/I Flashback...Maggie
1989 The Lemon Sisters...Franki D'Angelo
1988 Scrooged...Ghost of Christmas Present
1988 License to Drive...Mrs. Anderson
1988 Sticky Fingers...Kitty
1988 Rap Master Ronnie: A Report Card (video)
1988 Drop-Out Mother (TV movie)...Maxine
1987 The Princess Bride...Valerie
1987 Ishtar...Carol
1987 Paul Reiser Out on a Whim (TV movie)...Fortune teller
1986 Jumpin' Jack Flash...Cynthia
1986 All Is Forgiven (TV series)...Nicolette Bingham
1986 Tall Tales & Legends (TV series)...Barbara
Casey at the Bat
1985 Transylvania 6-5000...Lupi
1985 Crazy Like a Fox (TV series)
Bum Tip (1985)
1985 Tales from the Darkside (TV series)...Anne MacColl
Snip, Snip
1984 Cheers (TV series)...Amanda Boyer
A Ditch in Time
1984 Burning Rage (TV movie)...Mary Harwood
1984 Racing with the Moon...Annie the Hooker
1984 Over the Brooklyn Bridge...Cheryl
1984 The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud...Martha Bernays
1983 Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?...Customer At Cafe
1983 Faerie Tale Theatre (TV series)...The 'Good' Fairy
Sleeping Beauty
1980-1983 Taxi (TV series)...Simka Dahblitz-Gravas / Simka Dahblitz
1983 An Invasion of Privacy (TV movie)...Ilene Cohen
1982 Laverne & Shirley (TV series)...Olga
Jinxed
1982 Norman Loves Rose...Rose
1982 Pandemonium...Candy
1981 Strong Medicine
1981 The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories by Irwin Shaw (TV movie)...Frances Loomis (story 'The Girls in Their Summer Dresses')
1981 Keeping On (TV movie)...Lavinia
1980 The Greatest Man in the World (TV movie)...April
1980 Les jeux de la Comtesse Dolingen de Gratz...Louise Haines-Pearson
1979 La Sabina...Daisy
1979 When a Stranger Calls...Jill Johnson
1979 The Muppet Movie...Myth
1978 The Mafu Cage...Cissy
1978 Visions (TV series)
Fans of the Kosko Show
1977 The World's Greatest Lover...Annie Hickman
1977 Valentino...Starlet
1977 Annie Hall...Allison
1976 Harry and Walter Go to New York...Florence
1975 Hester Street...Gitl
1975 Dog Day Afternoon...Jenny
1974 We the Women (TV movie)...Susannah White
1973 The Last Detail...Young Whore
1972 Wedding in White...Jeannie Dougall
1971 Desperate Characters...Young Girl
1971 Carnal Knowledge...Jennifer
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--Answers to DEAD OR ALIVE
Broderick Crawford - DEAD (Stroke)
Born: 12/09/1911 Died: 04/26/1986
Stephen Rea - ALIVE
Born: 10/31/1946
Alan King - DEAD (Cancer)
Born: 12/26/1927 Died: 05/09/2004
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WHO PASSED ON THIS WEEK...
2/11
Bo Carpelan, 84, Finnish poet and author.
2/10
Trevor Bailey, 87, English Test cricketer and BBC radio
broadcaster (Test Match Special), house fire.
Emory Bellard, 83, American football coach, creator of
wishbone offense.
Saad El Shazly, 88, Egyptian military leader.
Michael Harsegor, 86, Israeli historian.
Bill Justice, 97, American animator, natural causes.
Jozef Życinski, 62, Polish Roman Catholic prelate,
Archbishop of Lublin (since 1997).
2/9
Miltiadis Evert, 71, Greek politician and minister, Mayor
of Athens (1987?1989), after long illness.
Leroy Rountree Hassell, Sr., 55, American jurist, Chief
Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court (2003?2011).
David Sanchez Juliao, 65, Colombian author.
Jimmy Lemi Milla, 62, Southern Sudanese politician, shot.
Alicia Pietri de Caldera, 87, Venezuelan First Lady (1969?
1974; 1994?1999), widow of President Rafael Caldera.
2/8
Roza Baglanova, 89, Kazakh singer, People's Artist of the USSR.
Luiz Bueno, 74, Brazilian race car driver, cancer.
Bradley Livezey, 56, American ornithologist, car accident.
Tony Malinosky, 101, American baseball player (Brooklyn
Dodgers).
Marie-Rose Morel, 38, Belgian politician, cancer.
Jorma Ojaharju, 72, Finnish author.
Jack Popejoy, 63, American news anchor, cancer.
Angelo Reyes, 65, Filipino general and politician, suicide
by gunshot.
Cesare Rubini, 87, Italian basketball player and coach,
water polo player.
Donald S. Sanford, 92, American film and television writer
(Midway).
Marvin Sease, 64, American blues singer, pneumonia.
2/7
Maria Altmann, 94, Austrian-born American art heiress,
after long illness.
Hysen Hakani, 78, Albanian screenwriter and director,
directed first Albanian short film.
Frank Roberts, 65, Australian boxer, first Australian
Aboriginal Olympian (1964), heart attack.
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