Basic Information About Tovah Feldshuh
Category | Celebrities βΊ Actors |
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Professions | Playwright, Actor, Singer |
Net worth | $5,000,000 |
Date of birth | 1952-12-27 (71 years old) |
Place of birth | New York City |
Nationality | United States of America |
Spouse | Andrew Levy - (20 MarchΒ 1977 - present)Β (2 children) |
Gender | Female |
Height | 5 ft 2 in (1.6 m) |
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What Movie Awards did Tovah Feldshuh win?
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Tovah Feldshuh awards
Award Name | State | Movie / Series Name | Year |
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Stinker Award - Most Annoying Fake Accent: Female | Nominee | Just My Luck | 2006 |
CinEuphoria - Merit - Honorary Award | Winner | The Walking Dead | 2020 |
Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series | Nominee | Law & Order | 2003 |
Tovah Feldshuh roles
Movie / Series | Role |
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She's Funny That Way | Miriam Pendergast |
Just My Luck | Madame Z |
Lady in the Water | Mrs. Bubchik |
Silver Bullet | Older Jane (voice) |
Brewster's Millions | Marilyn |
Clifford the Big Red Dog | Mrs. Crullerman |
A Walk on the Moon | Lillian Kantrowitz |
The Believer | Woman in Shul at Rosh Hashannah (uncredited) |
The Walking Dead | Deanna Monroe 14 episodes, 2015-2016 |
Star Wars: Resistance | Aunt Z / ... 14 episodes, 2018-2020 |
Blue Bloods | Sylvia Hayden 1 episode, 2015 |
Covert Affairs | Rivka Singer 2 episodes, 2012 |
Ugly Betty | Mrs. Varner 1 episode, 2010 |
Law & Order | Defense Attorney Danielle Melnick 13 episodes, 1991-2007 |
Salvation | President Mackenzie 9 episodes, 2017-2018 |
Reading Rainbow | Self 1 episode, 1992 |
Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Defense Attorney Danielle Melnick 1 episode, 2011 |
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend | Naomi Bunch 9 episodes, 2015-2018 |
Bull | Judge Garner 1 episode, 2019 |
Elena of Avalor | Grandma Miriam 1 episode, 2019 |
All My Children | Lila Stevenson 2 episodes, 1997 |
Cosby | Annie 1 episode, 1999 |
The Love Boat | Margo Bush / ... 2 episodes, 1977-1984 |
The Bob Newhart Show | Veronica Kidd 1 episode, 1977 |
Crossing Jordan | Mrs. Elaine Brandau / ... 3 episodes, 2006-2007 |
Barnaby Jones | Laura Woods 1 episode, 1977 |
Airwolf | Sarah Lebow 1 episode, 1984 |
Another World | Alice Benson 1 episode, 1991 |
CBS Schoolbreak Special | Denise Warshak 1 episode, 1992 |
Family | Susan Bowers 1 episode, 1977 |
L.A. Law | Lynn Palmer 2 episodes, 1987 |
Tovah Feldshuh's Quotes
- People think of me as the Jewish Meryl Streep.
Interesting Facts about Tovah Feldshuh
- Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1977" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 29.
- Tovah is her Hebrew name.
- Younger sister of Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright, David Feldshuh.
- Children: Garson Brandon Levy and Amanda Levy.
- Sideline: acting teacher and cabaret performer
- Before she went into the movie business she started as a rock singer. More 'famous' because of her flaming hair color in that period.
- In earlier years, she appeared on the stage under the name of "Terri Fairchild".
- Nominated for a 2004 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for "Golda's Balcony". It was her fourth Tony Award nomination.
- Has been nominated for Broadway's Tony Award four times: as Best Actress (Play) in 1976 for "Yentl" and in 2004 for "Golda's Balcony," her one-woman show about Golda Meir; as Best Actress (Musical) in 1979 for "Sarava"; and as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) in 1989 for "Lend Me a Tenor.".
- Portrayed former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir twice: on her Broadway one-woman show "Golda's Balcony" and in O Jerusalem (2006).
- She studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City.
- Opens in the role of Golda Meir in William Gibson's play "Golda's Balcony" as it moves to Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theater. [October 2003]
- Opens in the role of Golda Meir in William Gibson's play "Golda's Balcony" at the Manhattan Ensemble Theater in SoHo. [March 2003]
- She has played the same character (Danielle Melnick) in three different series: Law & Order (1990), Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001) and Chicago Justice (2017).
- Appeared 13 times as defense attorney Danielle Melnick on the original "Law & Order", which is the most in the series for a recurring defense attorney character.
- Alumna of Stella Adler Studio of Acting.
- Graduated from Sarah Lawrence which she opted over Julliard.
- Made her Broadway debut in the role of Yentl in 1973.
- Recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanities Award.
- Her mother Lily Kaplan Feldshuh passed away at 103 years old eight years after undergoing experimental heart valve surgery.