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Caroline Aaron

Highest Rated: 97% Big Night (1996)

Lowest Rated: 9% Joe Dirt (2001)

Birthday: Aug 7, 1952

Birthplace: Richmond, Virginia, USA

Caroline Aaron is a durable character actress best known to moviegoers as a key ensemble player in several Woody Allen films of the '80s and '90s. Playing roles that typified Allen's largely Jewish social and familial milieu, Aaron, with her tough no-nonsense approach, became a favorite cast addition of several leading directors, including Robert Altman, Nora Ephron, and Mike Nichols. Born to a prominent Jewish-American household in Richmond, Virginia, Aaron's family includes a former civil rights activist mother and a theater director sister. Eager to set her own path as an artist, Aaron initially pursued acting work on Broadway before making her screen debut in 1982 in the Robert Altman-directed "Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean." She followed up the same year with a bit part in the John Sayles romantic drama "Baby It's You" and went on to meatier roles in Mike Nichols' "Heartburn" (1986) and "Working Girl" (1988). But she gained the most notoriety playing Woody Allen's sister in his acclaimed 1989 dark comedy "Crimes and Misdemeanors," a character that the actress would somewhat reprise on the director's subsequent "Alice" and "Deconstructing Harry." In the '90s and '00s, Aaron began making inroads into TV acting, as well as returning to the stage, performing, most notably, under her sister Josephine Abady's direction in the play "The Boys Next Door."

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Highest-Rated Movies

97% 84% Big Night
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92% 91% Crimes and Misdemeanors
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86% 79% Theater Camp Watchlist
86% 81% Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
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85% 83% 21 Jump Street
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84% 77% 22 Jump Street Watchlist 84% 42% Between the Temples Watchlist
80% 64% Primary Colors
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74% 82% Deconstructing Harry
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71% 84% Tuesdays With Morrie
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Filmography

Movies TV Shows
Between the Temples 84% 42% 2024 Meira Gottlieb Actor Theater Camp 86% 79% 2023 Rita Cohen Actor Christmas vs. the Walters 71% 2021 Jane Actor Breakable You 38% 2017 Judith Singer Actor Final Vision 2017 Leslie Sterling Actor Bitch 66% 30% 2017 Nana Actor Bound & Babysitting 20% 2015 Violet Actor 22 Jump Street 84% 77% 2014 Annie Schmidt Actor 21 Jump Street 85% 83% 2012 Annie Schmidt Actor Meeting Spencer 33% 40% 2011 Nancy Diamond Actor Finding Bliss 30% 30% 2009 Debra Balaban Actor Love Hurts 29% 32% 2009 Wanda Actor Surveillance 55% 43% 2008 Janet Actor Love Comes Lately 70% 50% 2007 Rachel Actor Nancy Drew 50% 59% 2007 Barbara Barbara Actor Beyond the Sea 43% 64% 2004 Nina Cassotto Maffia Actor Cellular 56% 58% 2004 Marilyn Mooney Actor A Day Without a Mexican 27% 39% 2004 Aunt Gigi Actor Call Waiting 2004 Judy Baxter/Carol Lane Actor Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman 40% 2004 Madeleine Actor Two Days 65% 2003 Mrs. Miller Actor The Secret Life of Zoey 28% 2002 Mimi Actor Pumpkin 36% 57% 2002 Claudia Prinsinger Actor When Billie Beat Bobby 56% 2001 Gladys Heldman Actor Amy's Orgasm 26% 34% 2001 Janet Actor
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