Tovah Feldshuh | |
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Feldshuh in 2004
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Born |
Terri Sue Feldshuh December 27, 1952 New York City, New York, United States |
Occupation | Actress, singer, playwright |
Years active | 1973–present |
Spouse(s) | Andrew Harris Levy |
Children | 2 |
Terri Sue "Tovah" Feldshuh (born December 27, 1952) is an American actress, singer and playwright. She has been a Broadway star for more than four decades, earning four Tony Award nominations. She has also received two Emmy Award nominations for Holocaust and Law & Order, and appeared in such films as A Walk on the Moon, She's Funny That Way, and Kissing Jessica Stein. In 2015-16, she played the role of Deanna Monroe on AMC's television adaptation of The Walking Dead.
Feldshuh was born to a Jewish family in New York City, the daughter of Lillian (née Kaplan) and Sidney Feldshuh, who was a lawyer. Her brother David Feldshuh is the Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright of Miss Evers' Boys.
She was raised in Scarsdale, New York, in Westchester County, and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. She started her career under British director Michael Langham at the Guthrie Theater where she was awarded the McKnight Fellowship in Acting.