Tovah Feldshuh

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Born
Terri Sue Feldshuh

(1948-12-27) December 27, 1948 (age 75)
Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
Alma mater Sarah Lawrence College
Occupation(s)Actress, singer, playwright
Years active1973–present
Spouse
Andrew Harris Levy
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(m. 1977)​
Children2

Terri Sue "Tovah" Feldshuh (born December 27, 1948) [1] is an American actress, singer, and playwright. She has been a Broadway star for fifty years, 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 2015–2016, she played the role of Deanna Monroe on AMC's television adaptation of The Walking Dead .

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Early life

Feldshuh is of Jewish heritage, the daughter of Lillian (née Kaplan) and Sidney Feldshuh, who was a lawyer. [2] 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. In her high-school years, she was a student at the National Music Camp (later named the Interlochen Arts Camp) as a star in their drama class. She studied acting at HB Studio [3] in New York City. She started her career under theater director Michael Langham at the Guthrie Theater, where she was awarded the McKnight Fellowship in Acting. [4]

Career

Theater

Feldshuh appeared on the stage under the name "Terri Fairchild" before deciding to incorporate her Hebrew name and her original surname as her professional name, Tovah Feldshuh. She said of her name changes: "I fell in love with a Christian boy, Michael Fairchild, who didn't want to kiss a Terri Sue. He said: 'Terri Sue doesn't fit you at all. What's that other name of yours? Tovah? Now that's a name!" [5] In 1994, she joked that she could have changed her name to "Goody Two-shoes", since tovah is Hebrew for "good", while Feldshuh translates from German as "field shoe". [6]

She made her Broadway debut in the short-lived 1973 musical Cyrano starring Christopher Plummer. She appeared in the titular role in Yentl both off-Broadway at the Chelsea Theater Center and later on Broadway. Both productions are detailed in the book, Chelsea on the Edge: The Adventures of an American Theater, which describes tensions between Feldshuh and director Robert Kalfin over the play's interpretation. [7]

Her other Broadway credits include Saravá , Lend Me a Tenor , and Golda's Balcony - William Gibson's work about the late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. Golda's Balcony set a record as the longest-running one-woman play in Broadway history on January 2, 2005. [8]

Feldshuh made her cabaret debut at the Algonquin Hotel Oak Room with her act, Tovah: Crossovah! From Broadway to Cabaret, which was followed by Tovah: Out of Her Mind! She took the latter show on the road to Philadelphia, Dallas, Houston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Hong Kong, and Sydney. The West End production sold out an eight-week run at the Duke of York's Theatre. The Boston Globe selected her as Best Cabaret Artist of 2000. [9] In 2000, she co-wrote and performed in a one-woman play about actress Tallulah Bankhead titled Tallulah Hallelujah! [10]

She returned to Broadway in the Dan Gordon play Irena's Vow in March 2009. She had appeared off-Broadway in this play in September 2008. [11] In 2012, Feldshuh performed as Mama Rose in a revival of Gypsy.[ citation needed ]

At the September 21, 2013, Broadway performance of Pippin , Andrea Martin's last performance as Berthe (Pippin's grandmother) was announced to be the following day, and Feldshuh would be subsequently taking over the role. In 2014, she starred in Gypsy at the Bristol Riverside Theatre as Mama Rose. [12] [13]

In February 2015, she performed a one-woman show that she called Aging Is Optional at 54 Below. [14]

In July 2022, it was announced that Feldshuh would replace Jane Lynch as Mrs. Brice in the Broadway revival of Funny Girl , beginning September 6, 2022. [15]

Film and television

In 1973, Feldshuh appeared on television in a supporting role in Scream, Pretty Peggy. In 1976, she also had a supporting role in Ryan's Hope, and in the following year, she played Katharine Hepburn in The Amazing Howard Hughes. Also in 1977, she appeared on The Bob Newhart Show as Veronica Kidd, in an episode called "The Heartbreak Kidd" (season five, episode 18), which aired February 5. However, Feldshuh came to international prominence as Helena Slomova in the 1978 miniseries Holocaust, based on Gerald Green's novel. Between 1991 and 2007, Feldshuh had a recurring role as defense attorney Danielle Melnick on NBC's Law & Order. In 2017, Feldshuh reprised her role as Melnick, who was by then a Cook County judge, in Dick Wolf's Chicago Justice, a companion program to his Chicago Fire,Chicago P.D., and Chicago Med that was situated primarily in the Cook County, Illinois, court system.[ citation needed ]

Feldshuh's feature-film appearances have included Lady in the Water, The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal, A Walk on the Moon, Happy Accidents, Brewster's Millions, The Idolmaker, The Blue Iguana,A Day in October, The Believer, Love Comes Lately, Just My Luck, and Kissing Jessica Stein. She also appeared as Ruthie in the 2004 film The Tollbooth.

Feldshuh appeared in Goyband, co-starring Adam Pascal, Amy Davidson, Cris Judd, Dean Edwards, Tibor Feldman, and Natasha Lyonne. She was also slated to star in the psychological thriller Acts of Mercy. In 2009, Feldshuh recorded the song "Bein Nahar Prat" for Pioneers for a Cure, with the proceeds benefiting Ellen's Run.

In 2012, she appeared as Mossad agent Rivka in the Covert Affairs episode "Wishful Beginnings". In 2014, she appeared in the film She's Funny That Way.

In March 2015, Feldshuh made her debut in a starring role on AMC's highly rated The Walking Dead. Feldshuh had never seen the show before being cast as former politician Deanna Monroe, whose character Feldshuh says she based on Hillary Clinton. [16] She also appeared in the six-part miniseries Flesh and Bone, which debuted in 2015 on Starz.

From 2015 to 2019, Feldshuh had a recurring role on the musical comedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend as Naomi Bunch, the image-conscious and hypercritical mother of the show's main character, Rebecca Bunch, played by Rachel Bloom.

Personal life

Feldshuh married New York attorney Andrew Harris Levy in 1977. Actress Ruth Gordon was her maid of honor. They have a son, Garson, an economist and graduate of Harvard and Oxford universities; and a daughter, Amanda, who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. When Amanda married in 2014, Feldshuh gave her the advice, "You know how to have a successful marriage? Shut one eye, and don't leave. Some of it's fun and some of it isn't. It can be challenging, but you do not leave the field of play." [5] [17] Her nephew Noah Feldshuh is a former member of alternative rock band X Ambassadors, having left the band after an indefinite hiatus beginning in 2016. [18] [19] [20]

She lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. [21]

For her charity work, she is the recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanities Award, Hadassah's Myrtle Wreath, and the Israel Peace Medal. The National Foundation for Jewish Culture honored her with the 2002 Jewish Image Award and the Performing Arts award in 2006. [22] [23]

When doing research for her role as Irene Gut Opdyke in the play Irena's Vow , Feldshuh traveled to Borshchiv, Ukraine, and discovered that her own ancestor, Moishe Feldshuh, had lived there in the early 20th century. [5]

In March 2015, Feldshuh hiked Mount Kilimanjaro with her son. She explained to Variety she was inspired after the 2014 death of her mother at age 103, and her own athletic role in Pippin, in which she had to swing on a trapeze. "I really do feel we're only in this body once," she said. "I just want enough money to buy experience. I can forgo a dress, but the idea of taking a trip and trekking Mt. Kilimanjaro, or going on the Trans-Siberian railroad, or tracking lemurs in Madagascar — these things are very exciting to me. To see the world until I leave my own body. It's now or not at all." [16]

Filmography

Films

YearTitleRoleNotes
1978NunzioMichelle
1980 The Idolmaker Brenda Roberts
1981 Cheaper to Keep Her K.D. Locke
1983 Daniel Linda Mindish
1984An All Consuming PassionVivian PalmerVideo
1985 Brewster's Millions Marilyn
Silver Bullet Older Jane (voice)
1988 The Blue Iguana Detective Vera Quinn
1991Saying KaddishUnknown
En dag i oktoberEmma Kublitz
1995TroubleGoldieShort
Comfortably Numb Victoria Stevens
1997 Hudson River Blues Charlotte
The Real Shlemiel Zlateh The Goat, Aunt Sarah, The Matchmaker (voice)
1998 Montana Greta
Charlie HobokenAngie Cedars
1999 A Walk on the Moon Lillian Kantrowitz
The Corruptor US Attorney Margaret Wheeler
2000 Happy Accidents Lillian Weaver
2001 The Believer Woman In Shul
Kissing Jessica Stein Judy Stein
Friends & Family Alma Jennings
Old LoveEthel BrockelesShort
The 3 Little WolfsSarah Wolf
2002Noon Blue ApplesSponge-Brush Woman
The End of the BarMrs. Garner
2004 The Tollbooth Ruthie Cohen
2005 Alchemy Senior Editor
Life on the LedgeMother
The Reality TrapIrina Bolton
2006 Just My Luck Madame Z
Lady in the Water Mrs. Bubchik
O Jerusalem Golda Meir
2007The Shallow End of the OceanJason's MotherShort
Love Comes Lately Ethel
Love Life Hannah
2008EavesdropSusie
A House DividedRebecca Meir
Goyband Leah
2009Acts of MercyNurse Ruth Baker
2010A Buddy StoryBuddy's Mom
Ten Stories TallGrace Parker
HeterosexualsRemy
2012All the Broken PiecesGrandmotherShort
2014 A Little Game Blackstone Head of School
GlindaGlindaShort
The HyperglotElaineShort
2015 Angelica Nora
She's Funny That Way Miriam
2016Baked in BrooklynDavid's Mom
2018The Art of Saying GoodbyeBlanche
2019 Golda's Balcony Golda Meir
Remember AmnesiaDr. Paula Smith
Love Type DDr. Elsa Blomgren
Happily Ever AfterDr. Lynne Klein
2020The Book of RuthRuthShort
2021 Clifford the Big Red Dog Mrs. Crullerman
2022 Armageddon Time Mickey Rabinowitz

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1973 Scream, Pretty Peggy Agnes ThorntonTV movie
1976 Ryan's Hope Martha McKee 12 episodes
Gibbsville CaroleEpisode: "Trapped"
Serpico Erica MolinasEpisode: "Rapid Fire"
1977 Family Susan BowersEpisode: "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall..."
The Bob Newhart Show Veronica KiddEpisode: "The Heartbreak Kidd"
Barnaby Jones Laura WoodsEpisode: "Circle of Treachery"
The Amazing Howard Hughes Katharine Hepburn TV movie
The World of DarknessClara SanfordTV movie
The Love Boat Susan RidleyEpisode: "A Tasteful Affair/Oh, Dale!/The Main Event"
1978 Holocaust Helena Slomova4 episodes
Once Upon a Classic SandyEpisode: "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"
Terror Out of the SkyJeannie DevereuxTV movie
1979 The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal FlorenceTV movie
Beggarman, Thief Monika WolnerTV movie
1980 The Women's Room IsoTV movie
Murder InkLaura IrelandUnknown episodes
1984 Airwolf Sarah LebowEpisode: "Fight Like a Dove"
The Love Boat Margo BushEpisode: "Ace Meets the Champ/Why Justin Can't Read/Call Me a Doctor"
1985 The Equalizer Samantha PageEpisode: "Desperately"
1987MariahDeena Hertz7 episodes
L.A. Law Lynn Palmer2 episodes
1990 ABC Afterschool Specials Mrs. CarrEpisode: "All That Glitters"
1991 Against the Law ConnorEpisode: "Evil Conduct"
1991–2007 Law & Order Danielle Melnick 13 episodes
1992 Lifestories: Families in Crisis Episode: "The Secret Life of Mary Margaret: Portrait of a Bulimic"
Citizen Cohn Iva SchlesingerTV movie
CBS Schoolbreak Special Denise WarshakEpisode: "Sexual Considerations"
1993 TriBeCa Sheila GoldbergEpisode: "The Loft"
1994 As the World Turns Dr. Bethany Rose13 episodes
The Cosby Mysteries RoseEpisode: "Home, Street Home"
1995 Love and Betrayal: The Mia Farrow Story Eleanor AlterTV movie
1997 All My Children Lila Stevenson2 episodes
1998 A Will of their Own Mrs. RubensteinEpisode #1.1
1999 Cosby AnnieEpisode: "There's Something About Hilton"
2002 The Education of Max Bickford Sharon Bickford2 episodes
2003 Queens Supreme MarieEpisode: "Flawed Heroes"
The Harriman Alaska Expedition RetracedNarratorTV movie documentary
2006–2007 Crossing Jordan Mrs. Elaine Brandau3 episodes
2010 Ugly Betty Mrs. VarnerEpisode: "Blackout!"
The Good Wife LenaEpisode: "Doubt"
2011 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Danielle Melnick Episode: "To the Boy in the Blue Knit Cap"
2012Beautiful PeopleLynchTV movie
Covert Affairs Rivka Singer2 episodes
2015 Blue Bloods Sylvia HaydenEpisode: "Bad Company"
Flesh and Bone Ivana7 episodes
2015–2016 The Walking Dead Deanna Monroe 11 episodes
Recurring (Season 5)
Also starring (Season 6)
2015–2018 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Naomi BunchRecurring
2017–2018 Salvation President Pauline Mackenzie9 episodes
2017 Chicago Justice Danielle Melnick Episode: "Fake"
2018–2020 Star Wars Resistance Aunt Z (voice)14 episodes
2019 Bull Judge GarnerEpisode: "Prior Bad Acts"
Elena of Avalor Grandma Miriam (voice)Episode: "Festival of Lights"
2021 Scenes from a Marriage MiriaymMiniseries, 1 episode
2024 Nobody Wants This BinaRecurring role; upcoming series

Theatre

YearTitleRole(s)VenueNotes
1973 Cyrano Foodsellar, Nuns Palace Theatre 49 performances
1974Dreyfus in RehearsalMyriam Ethel Barrymore Theatre 12 performances
1975Rodgers & HartPerformer Helen Hayes Theatre 108 performances
1975–1976 Yentl Yentl Eugene O'Neill Theatre 223 performances
1979 Saravá Flor Mark Hellinger Theatre 177 performances
1989–1990 Lend Me a Tenor Maria Royale Theatre 476 performances
1992Sarah and AbrahamKitty, Sarah [24] George Street Playhouse
Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah! performer [25] Circle in the Square Downtown
1997Names Stella Adler [26] American Jewish Theatre
1999 Do Re Mi [27] Gretchen Mulhausen Encores! at New York City Center
2000Tallulah Hallelujah! Tallulah Bankhead [28] Douglas Fairbanks Theater
2003–2005 Golda's Balcony Golda Meir Helen Hayes Theatre 493 performances
2006 Hello, Dolly! Dolly Gallagher Levi [29] Paper Mill Playhouse
2009 Irena's Vow Irena Gut Opdyke Walter Kerr Theatre 105 performances
2010 Love, Loss, and What I Wore performer [30] Westside Theatre
2011 Arsenic and Old Lace Abigail Brewster [31] Dallas Theater Center
Gypsy Rose Hovick [32] Bristol Riverside Theatre
2012 Volpone Lady Would-Be [33] Red Bull Theatre
2013–2015 Pippin Berthe Music Box Theatre 672 performances
2019The PrompterIrene Young [34] Bay Street Theater
Sisters in Law Ruth Bader Ginsburg [35] Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
2021Becoming Dr. Ruth Ruth Westheimer [36] Edmond J. Safra Hall
2022 Funny Girl Mrs. Brice August Wilson Theatre starting September 6, 2022

Awards and nominations

Honors

Accolades

AssociationYearCategoryTitleResult
Drama Desk Awards 1975 Outstanding Actress in a Play Yentl Nominated
1989 Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play Lend Me a Tenor Won
1993 Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh Nominated
2003 Outstanding Solo Performance Golda's Balcony Won
Method Fest Awards 2005 Feature Film Tollbooth Won
Primetime Emmy Awards 1978 Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Holocaust Nominated
2003 Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series Law & Order Nominated
Satellite Awards 2003 Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical Kissing Jessica Stein Won
Saturn Awards 2016 Best Supporting Actress on Television The Walking Dead Nominated
Theatre World Awards 1976 Outstanding Individual Yentl Won
Tony Awards 1976 Best Actress in a Play Nominated
1979 Best Actress in a Musical Saravá Nominated
1989 Best Featured Actress in a Play Lend Me a Tenor Nominated
2004 Best Actress in a Play Golda's Balcony Nominated
The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards 2006 Most Annoying Fake Accent – Female Just My Luck Nominated

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