Birth Place: Cleveland, OH, USA
Carol Kane is best known on television for playing Simka Dahblitz-Gravas, wife of Latka Gravas, in the hugely popular US sitcom Taxi for which she won two Emmy awards. Her other television credits include regular roles in the American sitcoms All is Forgiven and American Dreamer as well as guest appearances in Chicago Hope, Seinfeld, Pearl, Two and a Half Men and Ugly Betty. Her film roles include Gitl in Hester Street for which she was Academy award-nominated, Allison Portchnik in Woody Allen's Annie Hall, Dog Day Afternoon, The Princess Bride, Scrooged, Addams Family Values, The Pacifier and My Girlfriend's Boyfriend. She began her professional theatre career in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and has more recently played Madam Morrible in Wicked on Broadway, on tour in the US and in Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Her other theatre credits include The Tempest and Macbeth at the Lincoln Centre Theater and earlier this year she was seen off Broadway in Nora and Delia Ephron's Love, Loss and What I Wore.
Carol Kane, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Carol Kane has appeared on Broadway in 4 shows.
Carol Kane has appeared on London's West End in 1 shows.
Carol Kane's first West End show was The Children's Hour which opened in 2011
Carol Kane has been nominated for the Outstanding Feature Actress - Play award at the Drama Desk Awards for her role in The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds.
Videos