Tovah Feldshuh

Highest Rated: 88% The Idolmaker (1980)

Lowest Rated: 0% The Blue Iguana (1988)

Birthday: Dec 27, 1952

Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

After attending Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Michigan, Tovah Feldshuh studied acting with Uta Hagen and Jacques LeCoq. Feldshuh made her professional debut at the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre in Cyrano de Bergerac; it was in this selfsame play that she made her Broadway bow in 1973. The following year, she was honored with the Theatre World Award for her starring appearance in Yentl. She later worked with the American Shakespeare Festival, starred in such Broadway productions as Sarava (1978) and Lend Me a Tenor (1989), and toured in her own one-woman show. Feldshuh inaugurated her film career in 1973 on a less-than-prestigious note with Scream, Pretty Peggy. Though the quality of her films improved over the next 20 years, she is held in higher esteem for her TV appearances. Feldshuh has been seen as Katharine Hepburn in the made-for-TV biopic The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977) and as Helena Slomova in the blockbuster miniseries Holocaust (1978); she also appeared as a regular on the ABC daytimer Ryan's Hope and as prison psychiatrist Dr. Deena Hertz in the prime-time weekly Mariah (1987). In addition to her acting accomplishments, Tovah Feldshuh has been active in numerous Jewish civic and charitable causes; for these and other selfless efforts, she has been honored with the Israeli Government Friendship Award and the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanitarian Award.

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
70%	Angelica	Nora	—	2017
No Score Yet	Hugs and Knishes: A Celebration of Our Jewish Foods and Traditions	Actor	—	2016
No Score Yet	Baked in Brooklyn	David's Mom	—	2016
41%	She's Funny That Way	Miriam Pendergast	—	2015
No Score Yet	Club Life	Ester Dadon	—	2015
40%	A Little Game	Blackstone Head of School	—	2014
No Score Yet	Falling Star	Leah	—	2014
No Score Yet	Triangle: Remembering The Fire	Actor	—	2011
No Score Yet	Ten Stories Tall	Actor	—	2010
No Score Yet	A Buddy Story	Actor	—	2010
No Score Yet	Acts of Mercy	Actor	—	2009
71%	Love Comes Lately	Ethel	—	2008
No Score Yet	Eavesdrop	Actor	—	2008
No Score Yet	Liebesleben (Love Life)	Actor	—	2007
35%	O Jerusalem	Golda Meir	$0.2M	2007
25%	Lady in the Water	Mrs. Bubchik	$42.3M	2006
14%	Just My Luck	Madame Z	$17.3M	2006
13%	The Tollbooth	Ruthie Cohen	—	2006
No Score Yet	Alchemy	Margaret	—	2005
No Score Yet	The Journey to Golda's Balcony	Actor	—	2004
No Score Yet	The End of the Bar	Actor	—	2002
84%	Kissing Jessica Stein	Judy Stein	$7M	2002
No Score Yet	Noon Blue Apples	Actor	—	2002
72%	Happy Accidents	Lillian	—	2001
44%	Friends and Family	Alma Jennings	—	2001
72%	A Walk on the Moon	Lilian	—	1999
No Score Yet	Alexander Calder	Narrator	—	1998
No Score Yet	A Will of Their Own	Mrs. Rubenstein	—	1998
No Score Yet	Montana	Greta	—	1998
49%	The Corruptor	U.S. Attorney Margaret Wheeler	—	1998
No Score Yet	Die Schelme von Schelm (Aaron's Magic Village)	Actor	—	1997
No Score Yet	Citizen Cohn	Iva Schlesinger	—	1992
No Score Yet	A Day in October	Emma	—	1991
No Score Yet	Dosvedanya Means Goodbye	Actor	—	1991
0%	The Blue Iguana	Detective Vera Quinn	—	1988
47%	Stephen King's 'Silver Bullet'	Older Jane	—	1985
36%	Brewster's Millions	Marilyn	—	1985
43%	Daniel	Linda Mindish	—	1983
88%	The Idolmaker	Brenda Roberts	—	1980
No Score Yet	Cheaper to Keep Her	K. D. Locke	—	1980
No Score Yet	The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal	Actor	—	1979
No Score Yet	Terror Out of the Sky (The Revenge of the Savage Bees)	Jeannie Devereux	—	1978
No Score Yet	The Amazing Howard Hughes	Katharine Hepburn	—	1977

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
47%	Salvation 2017	President Mackenzie President Pauline Mackenzie	2018 2017
No Score Yet	Blue Bloods 2010	Sylvia Hayden	2015
97%	Crazy Ex-Girlfriend 2015	Rebecca's Mom	2015
61%	Flesh and Bone 2015	Ivana	2015
No Score Yet	Talking Dead 2011	Guest	2015
79%	The Walking Dead 2010	Deanna	2015
92%	Covert Affairs 2010-2014	Rivka Singer	2012 2011
96%	The Good Wife 2009-2016	Lena	2010
No Score Yet	Ugly Betty 2006-2010	Mrs. Varner	2010
No Score Yet	Law & Order 1990-2010	Danielle Melnick	2007 2004 2002 2001 2000 1998 1996 1995 1994 1992 1991
No Score Yet	The Bob Newhart Show 1972-1978	Veronica "Ronnie" Kidd	1977

Quotes from Tovah Feldshuh's Characters

Judy Stein:	And you came home after the first day of rehearsal and said to me, "Mommy, I'm not gonna do it. I quit." And I said, "Jessie, my love, why?" And you said, "Because my co-star isn't good enough. And if my co-star isn't good enough, then the play won't be good enough. And I don't want to be part of any play that isn't good enough." And I thought to myself, oy. This child will suffer.
Judy Stein:	And you came home after the first day of rehearsal and said to me, 'Mommy, I'm not gonna do it. I quit.' And I said, 'Jessie, my love, why?' And you said, 'Because my co-star isn't good enough. And if my co-star isn't good enough, then the play won't be good enough. And I don't want to be part of any play that isn't good enough.' And I thought to myself, oy. This child will suffer.

Lilian Kantrowitz:

You think you're the only one who's dream didn't come true?

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