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Julie Kavner
Highest Rated: 92% Radio Days (1987)
Lowest Rated: Not Available
Birthday: Sep 7, 1950
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA
Deft comedienne who, two years out of college, began her professional career playing sardonic, chubby Brenda Morgenstern, younger sister to Valerie Harper's title character on the long-running TV sitcom "Rhoda" (1974-78). With her wry, sarcastic delivery, her ethnic, raspy and slightly nasal whine and her self-deprecating humor, Kavner has carved a niche as a likable second banana, playing scrappy underdogs, working women and supportive wives in such films as "Bad Medicine" (1985), "Surrender" (1987) and "Awakenings" (1990), TV-movies like "No Other Love" (1979) and "Revenge of the Stepford Wives" (1980), and, of course, the animated sitcom, "The Simpsons" (1990- ), as the voice of Marge Simpson. A Woody Allen regular, she has acted in five of his films including "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986) and "Shadows and Fog" (1992) and is reputedly the only actress to play both his mother (in "Radio Days" 1987) and his girlfriend (in "New York Stories" 1989).
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Filmography
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| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 57% | The Simpsons Meet the Bocellis in "Feliz Navidad" | Marge Simpson (Voice) | - | 2022 |
| 87% | 77% | The Simpsons Movie | Marge Simpson (Voice) | $183.1M | 2007 |
| 34% | 66% | Click | Trudy Newman (Character) | $137.3M | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Barn Red | Susan (Voice) | - | 2004 |
| 76% | 62% | The Lion King 1 1/2 | Timon's Ma (Voice) | - | 2004 |
| 77% | 69% | Judy Berlin | Marie (Character) | $467.3K | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | The Story of a Bad Boy | Elaine (Character) | - | 1998 |
| 73% | 82% | Deconstructing Harry |
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$10.7M | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jake's Women | Karen (Character) | - | 1996 |
| 50% | 56% | Forget Paris | Lucy (Character) | $32.0M | 1995 |
| 44% | 41% | Don't Drink the Water | Marion Hollander (Character) | - | 1994 |
| 67% | 41% | I'll Do Anything | Nan Mulhanney (Character) | $10.2M | 1994 |
| 36% | 48% | This Is My Life | Dottie Ingels (Character) | $2.8M | 1992 |
| 54% | 55% | Shadows and Fog | Alma (Character) | $2.4M | 1992 |
| 82% | 89% | Awakenings | Eleanor Costello (Character) | $49.4M | 1990 |
| 71% | 57% | Alice | Decorator (Character) | $6.8M | 1990 |
| 76% | 56% | New York Stories | Treva (Character) | $10.6M | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | 88% | The Simpsons: Family Therapy | Unknown (Character) | - | 1989 |
| 92% | 84% | Radio Days | Mother (Character) | $11.1M | 1987 |
| 22% | 34% | Surrender | Ronnie (Character) | $5.4M | 1987 |
| 91% | 90% | Hannah and Her Sisters | Gail (Character) | $37.3M | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | 28% | Bad Medicine | Cookie Katz (Character) | $2.5M | 1985 |
| 0% | 19% | National Lampoon's Movie Madness | Mrs. Falcone (Character) | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | 27% | Revenge of the Stepford Wives | Megan Brady (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | No Other Love | Janet Michaels (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | 64% | Katherine | Margot Weiss Goldman (Character) | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Girl Who Couldn't Lose | Jane Darwin (Character) | - | 1975 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 85% | 76% | The Simpsons | Marge Simpson (Voice) | 1989-2024 |
| No Score Yet | 31% | The Drew Barrymore Show | Guest | 2022 |
| No Score Yet | 65% | Family Guy | Marge Simpson (Guest Voice) | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Tracey Ullman Show | Unknown (Character) | 1987-1990 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | Taxi | Monica Banta Douglas (Guest Star) | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rhoda | Brenda Morgenstern (Character) | 1974-1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Petrocelli | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1975 |