| Lived with her family in Paris for a year and learned to speak fluent French. |
| Best-known for playing Simka Gravas, the wife of Andy Kaufman's Latka, on Taxi. |
| Debuted on Broadway in a 1972 production of Ring Around the Bath Tub. |
| Studied Yiddish in order to land the role of Gitl in Joan Micklin Silver's drama Hester Street (1975); received an Oscar nomination for her work. |
| Began her theater career in 1966 in the off-Broadway and national touring-company productions of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. |