Carol Kane


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06/17/1952
Cleveland, OH
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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.