Tovah Feldshuh

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Tovah Feldshuh (2016)

Terri Sue "Tovah" Feldshuh (born December 27, 1952 in New York City ) is an American actress .

biography

She was born to the Jewish couple Lillian and Helmut Feldshuh and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in Westchester County , New York. She began her acting career at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis .

She became known through the disaster film Feuerfalle , made by Emmy Award winner Mel Stuart, filmed in 1978 under the name The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal and first broadcast on German television on May 7, 1983 on ZDF. There she plays the role of Florence.

Tovah Feldshuh also played the role of the Czech freedom fighter Helena Slomova in the 1978 series Holocaust - The History of the Weiss Family by Marvin J. Chomsky . For this, Feldshuh was nominated for an Emmy for the first time . In 2003 she was nominated for the second time for her role as lawyer Danielle Melnick from the series Law & Order for the Emmy. That same year, Feldshuh received the Satellite Awards for the 2001 film Kissing Jessica , in which she played the role of Judy Stein.

She has taught at Yale University , Cornell University, and a university in New York, and in June 2005 she received the Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL; or LHD), an honorary award from a university awarded for outstanding service. She supports Seeds of Peace , an international youth organization founded in 1993, and has also received the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanitas Award , a US Peace Prize and the Peace Medal of Israel.

She is married to Andrew Harris Levy, a New York lawyer with whom she has two children.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tovah Feldshuh. Retrieved December 2, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Feldshuh, Tovah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fairchild, Terri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City