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Carol Kane

Born 1952-06-18

📍 Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Carolyn Laurie Kane (born June 18, 1952) is an American actress and comedian.

She became known in the 1970s in films such as Hester Street (for which she received an Oscar nomination) and Annie Hall. She appeared on the television series Taxi in the early 1980s, as Simka Gravas, the wife of Latka, the character played by Andy Kaufman, winning two Emmy Awards for her work. She has played the character of Madame Morrible in the musical Wicked, both in regional productions and on Broadway from 2005 to 2014. From 2015 to 2018 she was a main cast member on the Netflix original series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, in which she played Lillian Kaushtupper.

Filmography 185

Caught Stealing

Andy Kaufman Is Me

Boundary Waters

Between the Temples

as Carla Kessler

Dinner with the Parents

Remembering Gene Wilder

as Erin (voice)

Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

as Bube Bina (voice)

Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

as Bubbe Bina (voice)

as Lucille Lubinski

Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Underground Rock Experience

as Grand-Mah (voice)

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

as Commander Pelia

as Betty Chumley

A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Music: A Live Singing Contest (That's Live)

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend

as Lillian Kaushtupper

Love, Loss, and What I Wore

Stars in the House

as Mindy Markowitz

The Dead Don't Die

as Mallory O'Brien

as Madeline Styne

The Sisters Brothers

Summer Camp Island

as Barb Jr. (voice)

Bette Davis: Larger Than Life

Waiting for Ishtar

as Menopause Banshee / Old Woman (voice)

Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond

Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows

Addiction: A 60's Love Story

Ava's Possessions

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

as Lillian Kaushtupper

Star vs. the Forces of Evil

as Dr. Jelly Goodwell (voice)

as Gertrude Kapelput

Thanks for Sharing

as Linda Bradford

Sleepwalk with Me

as Betty Chumley

Anger Management

Should've Been Romeo

Jake and the Never Land Pirates

as The Sea Witch (voice)

as Sea Witch (voice)

Pete Smalls Is Dead

My Girlfriend's Boyfriend

The Bounty Hunter

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

as Self - Guest

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

Four Christmases

Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five

as Sheep (voice)

Phineas and Ferb

as Additional Voices (voice)

Phineas and Ferb

as Nana Shapiro (voice)

The Year Without a Santa Claus

as Mother Nature

as Lena Korvinka

Bette and Joan: Blind Ambition

Billy and Mandy Save Christmas

as Mrs. Claus (voice)

as Gilda (voice)

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

The Civilization of Maxwell Bright

How Real is 'The Star'?

Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen

as Miss Baggoli

as Cornelia Rackett

Two and a Half Men

as Missy Flanders

Love in the Time of Money

My First Mister

The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy

Tomorrow by Midnight

as Officer Garfield

The Shrink Is In

as Louise Rosenberg

As Told by Ginger

as Maude Webley (voice)

A Constant Forge

Man on the Moon

as Self (uncredited)

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald: The Visitors from Outer Space

as Ogg's Mother (voice)

as Carol (voice)

as Ms. Sherwood

Hollywood Squares

as Self - Panelist

as The Tooth Fairy

as Miss Gimpole

Merry Christmas, George Bailey

as Cousin Tilly / Mrs. Hatch

as Dorine Douglas

The Tony Danza Show

as Simka Gravaas

as Donna Waters

as Emily Dickinson Trophy (voice)

as Annie Caraldo

American Strays

as Tom's Mother

as Faith Bigger

as Molly Rex (voice)

as Spider (voice)

as Leanne Futterman

Dad, the Angel & Me

The Crazysitter

as Treva Van Arsdale

as Marguerite Birch

Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!

as Self (archive footage)

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Addams Family Values

When a Stranger Calls Back

as Jill Johnson

Homicide: Life on the Street

Brooklyn Bridge

American Dreamer

as Lillian Abernathy

Tiny Toon Adventures

as Ollie (voice)

Joe Versus the Volcano

as Blythe (voice)

The Lemon Sisters

as Franki D'Angelo

Tales from the Crypt

as Ghost of Christmas Present

License to Drive

as Mrs. Anderson

Rap Master Ronnie: A Report Card

Drop-Out Mother

Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim

as Fortune Teller

The Princess Bride

Jumpin' Jack Flash

Bob Goldthwait: Don't Watch This Show

All Is Forgiven

as Nicolette Bingham

Casey at the Bat

as Barbara Dent

Transylvania 6-5000

Tall Tales & Legends

The Ray Bradbury Theater

Crazy like a Fox

as Iris Buckles

Tales from the Darkside

as Anne MacColl

as Mary Harwood

The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud

as Martha Bernays

Racing with the Moon

as Annie the Hooker

Over the Brooklyn Bridge

Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?

as Customer At Cafe

Sleeping Beauty

as The Good Fairy

Reading Rainbow

as Self - Narrator (voice)

An Invasion of Privacy

Joan Micklin Silver: Encounters with the New York Director

Norman Loves Rose

Faerie Tale Theatre

as The 'Good' Fairy

The Man Who Married a French Wife and Other Stories

as Frances Loomis

Late Night with David Letterman

Strong Medicine

The Games of Countess Dolingen

as Louise Haines-Pearson

The Greatest Man in the World

The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories

as Frances Loomis

When a Stranger Calls

as Jill Johnson

The Muppet Movie

as Simka Gravas

as Simka Dahblitz

Out of Our Fathers' House

as Eliza Southgate

The World's Greatest Lover

as Annie Hickman

Harry and Walter Go to New York

Laverne & Shirley

Dog Day Afternoon

as Frances Loomis

The Last Detail

Wedding in White

as Jeannie Dougall

Desperate Characters

Carnal Knowledge

Great Performances

as Eliza Southgate

Great Performances

as Francis Loomis