1. Carolyn Laurie Kane was born on June 18,1952 and is an American actress.
47 Facts About Carol Kane
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Carol Kane gained recognition for her role in Hester Street, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
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Carol Kane became known in the 1970s and 1980s in films such as Dog Day Afternoon, Annie Hall, When a Stranger Calls, The Princess Bride, Scrooged and Flashback.
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Carol Kane has played the character of Madame Morrible in the musical Wicked, both in touring productions and on Broadway from 2005 to 2014.
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Carol Kane currently plays the recurring role of Pelia in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
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Carol Kane was born on June 18,1952, in Cleveland, the daughter of Joy, a jazz singer, teacher, dancer, and pianist, and architect Michael Carol Kane.
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Carol Kane's family is Jewish, and her grandparents emigrated from Russia, Austria, and Poland.
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Carol Kane's parents divorced when she was 12 years old.
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Carol Kane attended the Cherry Lawn School, a boarding school in Darien, Connecticut, until 1965.
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Carol Kane studied theater at HB Studio and went to the Professional Children's School in New York City.
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Carol Kane became a member of both the Screen Actors Guild and the Actors' Equity Association at age 14.
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Carol Kane made her professional theater debut in a 1966 production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie starring Tammy Grimes, her first job as a member of Actors' Equity.
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In 1975, Carol Kane was cast in Joan Micklin Silver's feature-length debut Hester Street, in which she played a Russian-Jewish immigrant who struggles with her husband to assimilate in late 19th-century New York.
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Carol Kane appeared in Ken Russell's film Valentino, which, like The World's Greatest Lover, takes inspiration from the silent film era, as it is a biographical drama loosely inspired by the life of Rudolph Valentino.
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From 1980 to 1983, Carol Kane portrayed Simka Dahblitz-Gravas, the wife of Andy Kaufman's character Latka Gravas, on the American television series Taxi.
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Carol Kane has theorized that she was cast in Taxi in part due to her work in Hester Street, where a significant portion of her dialogue was spoken in Yiddish, since Simka speaks a fictional language with a vaguely Eastern European accent.
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Carol Kane has attributed the on-screen rapport she shared with Kaufman to their different work ethics: where she was trained in the theater and enjoyed rehearsal time, Kaufman was rooted more in stand-up comedy and did not care for rehearsals, a contrast that she believes enhanced their believability as a married couple.
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Carol Kane received two Emmy Awards for her work on Taxi.
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In 1984, Carol Kane appeared in episode 12, season 3 of Cheers as Amanda, an acquaintance of Diane Chambers from her time spent in a mental institution.
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Carol Kane was a regular on the 1986 series All Is Forgiven.
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In 1987, Carol Kane appeared in Ishtar, Elaine May's notorious box-office flop turned cult classic, playing the frustrated girlfriend of Dustin Hoffman's character.
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In 1988, Carol Kane appeared in the Cinemax Comedy Experiment Rap Master Ronnie: A Report Card alongside Jon Cryer and the Smothers Brothers.
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Carol Kane became a regular on the NBC series American Dreamer, which ran from 1990 to 1991.
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Carol Kane guest starred on a 1994 episode of Seinfeld, as well as a 1996 episode of Ellen.
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Carol Kane is known for her portrayal of the evil headmistress Madame Morrible in the Broadway musical Wicked, whom she played in various productions from 2005 to 2014.
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Carol Kane made her Wicked debut on the 1st National Tour, playing the role from March 9 through December 19,2005.
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Carol Kane then reprised the role in the Broadway production from January 10 through November 12,2006.
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Carol Kane again played the role for the Los Angeles production which began performances on February 7,2007.
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Carol Kane left the production on December 30,2007, and later returned on August 26,2008, until the production closed on January 11,2009.
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Carol Kane then transferred with the Los Angeles company of Wicked to reprise her role , this time in the San Francisco production, which began performances January 27,2009.
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Carol Kane ended her limited engagement on March 22,2009.
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In March 2010, Carol Kane appeared in the ABC series Ugly Betty as Justin Suarez's acting teacher.
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Carol Kane starred in the off-Broadway play Love, Loss, and What I Wore in February 2010.
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Carol Kane made her West End debut in January 2011 in a major revival of Lillian Hellman's drama The Children's Hour at London's Comedy Theatre, where she starred alongside Keira Knightley, Elisabeth Moss and Ellen Burstyn.
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In May 2012, Carol Kane appeared on Broadway as Betty Chumley in a revival of the play Harvey.
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Carol Kane returned to the Broadway company of Wicked from July 1,2013, through February 22,2014, a period that included the show's 10th anniversary.
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In 2015, Carol Kane was cast in the recurring role of Lillian Kaushtupper, the landlord to the title character of the Netflix series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
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Carol Kane joined the cast due in part to her admiration of showrunner Tina Fey, with whom she had previously wanted to collaborate on the NBC series 30 Rock.
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Carol Kane was promoted to a series regular for the show's second season.
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Carol Kane reprised the role in the "interactive" television special Kimmy vs the Reverend.
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In 2018, Carol Kane was cast in Jacques Audiard's Western film The Sisters Brothers.
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In 2020, Carol Kane was featured in the ensemble cast of the Amazon series Hunters, which includes her longtime acquaintance Al Pacino.
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In 2024, Carol Kane starred in Nathan Silver's comedy film Between the Temples, in which she portrays a woman who, having been raised by secular parents, decides to have a bat mitzvah later in life.
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Carol Kane has stated that she drew inspiration from Silver's mother, who studied for a bat mitzvah in her sixties; she was inspired by her own mother, who, at age 55, moved to Paris to become a musician.
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Carol Kane was in a relationship with actor Woody Harrelson from 1986 to 1988.
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Carol Kane has never been married, nor has she had any children.
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Carol Kane is often noted for her high, breathy, slow voice, though her vocal timbre has grown raspier with age.