Laraine Newman was born on March 2,1952 and is an American actress, comedian, and writer.
40 Facts About Laraine Newman
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Laraine Newman took an interest at improv in high school.
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Laraine Newman then moved to Los Angeles and became a founding member of comedy improvisational group The Groundlings.
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Laraine Newman was first hired by Lorne Michaels for a Lily Tomlin TV special in 1974.
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The next year Laraine Newman became one of the original cast members of Saturday Night Live, working there from 1975 to 1980 and creating characters like Connie Conehead, proto-Valley girl Sherry, and Christie Christina.
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Laraine Newman has appeared in movies like Stardust Memories, Problem Child 2, Coneheads, and The Flintstones.
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Laraine Newman is a voice actor with appearances in both TV shows and movies, including many Pixar films like Finding Nemo, WALL-E, Up, and Inside Out.
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Laraine Newman is the younger sister of writer and musician Tracy Newman and the mother of actress and comedian Hannah Einbinder.
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Laraine Newman was born on March 2,1952, in Los Angeles, California, the granddaughter of a cattle rancher from Arizona.
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Laraine Newman is the youngest of four children and has a twin brother Paul.
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Laraine Newman's sister, Tracy Newman, is an Emmy Award-winning television writer.
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Laraine Newman attended Beverly Hills High School in Beverly Hills, California and graduated from there in 1970.
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Laraine Newman married actor-writer-director Chad Einbinder in 1991; their marriage ended after 25 years.
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Laraine Newman took her first improvisational theatre classes when she was 15.
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At the age of 17, Laraine Newman lost her virginity to American singer and guitarist Johnny Winter.
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Laraine Newman was not accepted after the second round of auditions for all four schools, so she went to Paris to study mime with Marcel Marceau for a year.
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Laraine Newman recalled being stopped in the street in New York City by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, who introduced themselves to her.
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However, by her own account, Laraine Newman was unhappy for much of her time with the show.
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Laraine Newman disliked living in New York, and during her years on SNL, Newman had developed serious eating disorders, as well as heroin addiction.
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Laraine Newman spent so much time in her dressing room playing solitaire that for Christmas 1979, castmate Radner gave her a deck of playing cards with a picture of Newman on the face of each card.
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Laraine Newman was photographed as a vampire by Francesco Scavullo for the July 1978 issue of High Times.
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Laraine Newman generally decided not to repeat her characters, and so she has far fewer signature characters remembered as well as those played by some of her other fellow cast members.
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Still, Laraine Newman created many important SNL characters and helped, as part of the whole ensemble cast, to shape the early years of SNL.
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Laraine Newman was in a relationship with Mark Mothersbaugh of the new wave band Devo years after the band did a guest spot in the fourth season of SNL.
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Laraine Newman has appeared in film and television productions during the 1980s.
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Laraine Newman had a small role in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories.
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Laraine Newman auditioned for the role of Masha in Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy ; the role was played in the film by Sandra Bernhard.
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Laraine Newman became sober in 1987, after 21 years of drug use.
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Laraine Newman celebrated her 36th birthday in March 1988 with a party in Los Angeles that was the last time Gilda Radner was with her original SNL co-stars.
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Laraine Newman played the antagonist in Problem Child 2 and appeared in 1993's Coneheads.
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Laraine Newman further appeared in episodes of Friends, 3rd Rock from the Sun, 7th Heaven, and in the 1994 film The Flintstones.
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Laraine Newman continues to provide her voice for movies like Dr Seuss' The Lorax and Wreck-It Ralph.
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Laraine Newman made guest voice appearances in SpongeBob SquarePants, Doc McStuffins, and Harvey Street Kids.
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Laraine Newman voiced the Wicked Witch of the West in Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz, an animated direct-to-DVD film set during the events of the original 1939 film.
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On July 9,2014, Laraine Newman appeared on Ken Reid's TV Guidance Counselor podcast.
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In 2017, Laraine Newman was inducted into the Television Academy's 24th Hall of Fame ceremony.
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Laraine Newman is a contributing editor for the online magazine One For The Table, and she is an occasional contributor to the Huffington Post.
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Laraine Newman has contributed articles for the Los Angeles Times, The Believer, and McSweeney's.
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Laraine Newman wrote the foreword to the book version of the UCB Production Worst Laid Plans.
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Laraine Newman has been nominated for awards numerous times, most notably for an Emmy in 1979 as a cast member of Saturday Night Live.