Arleen Frances Sorkin was an American actress, screenwriter, television presenter and comedian.
15 Facts About Arleen Sorkin
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Arleen Frances Sorkin was born on October 14,1955 in Washington, DC to Irving and Joyce Sorkin.
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Arleen Sorkin's father was a dentist who was a producer on the 2004 film Something the Lord Made.
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Arleen Sorkin began her career in cabaret in the late 1970s and early 1980s as a member of the comedy group The High-Heeled Women, alongside Mary Fulham, Tracey Berg, and Cassandra Danz.
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Arleen Sorkin played this part from 1984 to 1990 and made return visits in 1992 and 2001.
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Arleen Sorkin reprised her role on the soap for the fourth time on February 24,2006.
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Arleen Sorkin returned to Days for a limited run beginning on May 5,2010.
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Arleen Sorkin was the original female co-host on America's Funniest People in 1990.
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In 1992, Arleen Sorkin was dismissed from America's Funniest People by producer Vin Di Bona.
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Arleen Sorkin sought $450,000 for lost earnings, and an additional unspecified amount for harm to her professional reputation and emotional injury.
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Arleen Sorkin additionally claimed that after she denounced the move as being racially motivated, Di Bona changed plans and hired new cohost Tawny Kitaen, who was white.
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Dini then patterned Harley Quinn on Arleen Sorkin, incorporating aspects such as her mannerisms and "very snappy, wisecracking, bubbly blonde" personality.
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In recording Harley Quinn's voice, Arleen Sorkin spoke in her normal Brooklyn accent while putting in a "little Yiddish sound", since Dini made the character Jewish, another aspect of the character borrowed from Arleen Sorkin.
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Arleen Sorkin married television writer-producer Christopher Lloyd in 1995, with whom she had two sons, Eli and Owen.
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Arleen Sorkin died in Los Angeles on August 24,2023, at the age of 67, of complications from pneumonia and multiple sclerosis.