Tovah Feldshuh

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Biography

American actress

  • Primary profession
  • Actress·soundtrack·producer
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Female
  • Birth date
  • 27 December 1952
  • Place of birth
  • New York City
  • Education
  • Sarah Lawrence College
  • Knows language
  • English language

Music

Movies

TV

Books

Awards

Trivia

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 "Goldas Balcony". It was her fourth Tony Award nomination.

Has been nominated for Broadways Tony Award four times: as Best Actress (Play) in 1976 for "Yentl" and in 2004 for "Goldas Balcony," her one-woman show about Golda Meir ; as Best Actress 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 "Goldas Balcony" and in O Jerusalem .

She studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City.

(October 2003) Opens in the role of Golda Meir in William Gibson s play "Goldas Balcony" as it moves to Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theater.

(March 2003) Opens in the role of Golda Meir in William Gibson s play "Goldas Balcony" at the Manhattan Ensemble Theater in SoHo.

She has played the same character (Danielle Melnick) in three different series: "Law & Order" , "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" and "Chicago Justice" .

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