Janet Margolin (July 25, 1943 – December 17, 1993) was an American theater, television and film actress.
Early life
Margolin was born in
New York City, the daughter of Benjamin Margolin, an accountant who was born in
Russia and was founder and president of the Nephrosis Foundation, now the Kidney Foundation of New York. Her mother was Annette Margolin (maiden name Lief, the daughter of Abraham and Nina Lief).
She attended the
School of Performing Arts. In 1961, at age 18, while a prop girl at the
New York Shakespeare Festival, she won a "pivotal" Broadway stage role as Anna in
Morris West's
Daughters of Silence.Calta, Louis (1961), "Prop Girl, 18, Wins a Broadway Lead,"
The New York Times, September 6, 1961, p. 41; the
New York Times, reviewing the play, listed her among leaders of "a fine cast" and said that "her Anna has a fragile, haunted dewiness."Taubman, Howard (1961), "The Theatre: 'Daughter of Silence,'",
The New York Times, December 1, 1961, p. 28
Career
In 1962, she played her first movie role as the female lead in the film
David and Lisa. She played the love interest of the lead character in the movie
Enter Laughing (1967).
In
Take the Money and Run (1969) she played the love interest of the bumbling thief played by Woody Allen, and in
Annie Hall (1977) she played the social-climbing wife of the Woody Allen character.
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