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Julie Kavner

Julie Kavner

Highest Rated: 93% Radio Days (1987)

Lowest Rated: 0% National Lampoon's Movie Madness (1981)

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).

Highest rated movies

93% Radio Days
91% Hannah and Her Sisters 82% Awakenings
77% Judy Berlin
76% New York Stories
73% Deconstructing Harry
71% Alice
67% I'll Do Anything

Photos

HANNAH AND HER SISTERS, Woody Allen, Julie Kavner, 1986 The Simpsons, from left: Maggie Simpson, Yeardley Smith, Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, 'The Simpson's Christmas Special: Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire', Season 1, Ep. #1, ©FXX The Simpsons, from left: Leonard Nimoy, Julie Kavner, Maggie Simpson, Yeardley Smith, 'Marge vs. the Monorail', Season 4, Ep. #12, 01/13/1993, ©FXX The Simpsons, Julie Kavner (L), Dan Castellaneta (R), 'Simpson and Delilah', Season 2, Ep. #2, 10/18/1990, ©FXX The Simpsons, from left: Julie Kavner, Yeardley Smith, Nancy Cartwright, Dan Castellaneta, 'Marge in Chains', Season 4, Ep. #21, 05/06/1993, ©FXX The Simpsons, from left: Nancy Cartwright, Maggie Simpson, Julie Kavner, Dan Castellaneta, Yeardley Smith, 'The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson', Season 9, Ep. #1, 09/21/1997, ©FXX The Simpsons, from left: Yeardley Smith, Julie Kavner, Stephen Hawking, Dan Castellaneta, 'They Saved Lisa's Brain', Season 10, Ep. #22, 05/09/1999, ©FXX The Simpsons, Julie Kavner (L), Nancy Cartwright (C), Jon Stewart (R), 'Half-Decent Proposal', Season 13, Ep. #10, 02/10/2002, ©FXX The Simpsons, Julie Kavner (L), Dan Castellaneta (R), 'The Devil Wears Nada', Season 21, Ep. #5, 11/15/2009, ©FXX THE SIMPSONS MOVIE, Marge Simpson (center, voice: Julie Kavner), Homer Simpson (back, right of center, voice: Dan Castellaneta), Lisa Simpson (front, second from left, voice: Yeardley Smith), Maggie Simpson (in wheelbarrow), Bart Simpson (right, voice: Na The Simpsons, from left: Warren Sapp, Maggie Simpson, Nancy Cartwright, Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Yeardley Smith, LeBron James, Tom Brady, Michelle Kwan, 'Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass', Season 16, Ep. #8, 02/06/2005, ©FXX THIS IS MY LIFE, Julie Kavner, Gaby Hoffman, Samantha Mathis, 1992, TM & Copyright (c) 20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. RADIO DAYS, Seth Green, Michael Tucker, Julie Kavner, 1987, (c)Orion Pictures THIS IS MY LIFE, Gaby Hoffman, Julie Kavner, Samantha Mathis, 1992, © 20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved, THIS IS MY LIFE, Director Nora Ephron, Julie Kavner, on set, 1992, TM & Copyright (c) 20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. RADIO DAYS, Diane Wiest, Julie Kavner, Michael Tucker, William Magerman, Seth Green, Josh Mostel, Renee Lippin, 1987 DECONSTRUCTING HARRY, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, 1997, (c)Fine Line Features RADIO DAYS, Julie Kavner, Seth Green, Michael Tucker, 1987 The Simpsons, from left: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Maggie Simpson, 'There's No Disgrace Like Home', Season 1, Ep. #4, 01/28/1990, ©FXX AWAKENINGS, Julie Kavner, Robin Williams, 1990
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Filmography

Movies

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 Grace / Harry's Character (Character) $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% 49% 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
93% 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% 77% The Simpsons Marge Simpson (Voice) 1989-2024
No Score Yet 24% The Drew Barrymore Show Guest 2022
No Score Yet 64% 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