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TOVAH FELDSHUH For her work on the New York stage, from Yentl to Saravá! to Lend Me a Tenor, Tovah Feldshuh has earned four Tony nominations for Best Actress and won four Drama Desk Awards (including one for Golda's Balcony), four Outer Critics Circle Awards, the Obie, the Theatre World Award and the 2003 Lucille Lortel Award for Best Actress (Golda's Balcony). Some of her other New York credits include the title roles in the Roundabout Theatre's She Stoops to Conquer and Mistress of the Inn; BAM's Three Sisters with Rosemary Harris and Ellen Burstyn; the long-running hit The Vagina Monologues; and roles on Broadway in Cyrano (with Christopher Plummer), Rodgers and Hart and Dreyfus in Rehearsal. Off-Broadway she starred as Tallulah Bankhead in her own Tallulah Hallelujah!, which was chosen as one of the Ten Best Plays of the Year by USA Today. Among other roles, Ms. Feldshuh has portrayed Diana Vreeland in Full Gallop, Jean Brodie in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Sarah Bernhardt, Stella Adler, Sophie Tucker, Katharine Hepburn, three queens of Henry VIII and nine Jews from birth to death in Off-Broadway's Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh. On television, she received her first Emmy nomination for her portrayal of Czech freedom fighter Helena in "Holocaust." She has starred opposite Tommy Lee Jones in "The Amazing Howard Hughes," James Woods in "Citizen Cohn," Bill Cosby on "The Cosby Mysteries" and "The Cosby Show" and Richard Dreyfuss in "The Education of Max Bickford," to name a few. In September, she was nominated for her second Emmy for her work on "Law & Order" as defense attorney Danielle Melnick. Feature films include Fox Searchlight's Kissing Jessica Stein, for which she won the Golden Satellite Award as Best Supporting Actress; A Walk on the Moon with Diane Lane; Happy Accidents with Marisa Tomei; The Corruptor with Mark Wahlberg; Daniel; The Idolmaker; Brewster's Millions; Cheaper to Keep Her; The Blue Iguana; A Day in October; 3 Little Wolffs; Toll Booth; Friends and Family; Old Love; Nunzio; and The Believer. Her one-woman show Tovah: Out of Her Mind! sold out in London's West End at the Duke of York's and culminated in a concert with Billy Crystal at Los Angeles' Royce Hall. The Boston Globe selected Tovah: Out of Her Mind! as the best one-person show of 2000. Ms. Feldshuh, a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, has taught at Yale, Cornell and New York universities. She is a supporter of Seeds of Peace, a non-profit, non-political organization that helps teenagers from regions of conflict, and is the recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanitas Award and the Israel Peace Medal. Ms. Feldshuh is married to New York attorney Andrew Harris Levy. They have two children, Garson Brandon and Amanda Claire.
Bio as of September, 2006.
Working in the Theatre (video)
Performance - September, 2003
Performance - September, 1985
Downstage Center (audio)
Tovah Feldshuh - July, 2004
Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)
Website:
www.tovahfeldshuh.com
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