Leila Hoffman | |
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Birth name | Leila Rothstein |
Born | June 1934 Hackney, England |
(age 82)
Medium | Television, film, stand up |
Nationality | British |
Spouse | Alfred Hoffman |
Leila Hoffman (née Rothstein) (born 1934 in Hackney) is an English comedian, actress and writer.
Hoffman is the daughter of Esther (née Schaewitch) (1906–1992) and Joseph "Joe" Rothstein, both children of Russian Jews. She has one sister, Sybil Fox, who is four years her senior. In 1960, Leila married Alfred Hoffman in Brighton, where the Rothstein family had relocated to sometime after Leila's birth.
Hoffman has recently starred in BBC Three sitcom, How Not to Live Your Life as Dot Treacher, the widowed neighbour. She has also appeared in several online BBC comedy sketches with the group This is Wondervision.
Film
Television