Rita Karin
Highest Rated: 89% Enemies, a Love Story (1989)
Lowest Rated: 33% He Said, She Said (1991)
Birthday: Oct 24, 1919
Birthplace: Wilno, Poland
The daughter of victims of the Holocaust, Karin trained at the Moscow State Jewish Theater during WWII and began performing after the war with her husband, Norbert Horowitz, in a traveling Yiddish theater they created for Holocaust survivors. She immigrated to the US in 1949 and enjoyed a successful career in New York's Yiddish theater scene, later expanding to Broadway and off-Broadway in shows including "The Wall," "Yentl," "A Call on Kuprin," "Scuba Duba" and "The House of Blue Leaves." Karin also made intermittent feature film appearances beginning the 1970s; her most memorable roles include the boisterous landlady, Yetta Zimmerman, in "Sophie's Choice" (1983) and Mrs. Schreier in "Enemies: A Love Story" (1991). Her TV roles include a stint as Jackie Mason's mother on the ABC sitcom, "Chicken Soup." Karin also distinguished herself as a reader of the works of Sholom Aleichem, and performed them annually on the anniversary of the noted author's death.
Filmography
Movies
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33% | 34% | He Said, She Said | Mrs. Spepk (Character) | $8.7M | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Age Isn't Everything | Unknown (Character) | - | 1991 |
89% | 54% | Enemies, a Love Story | Mrs. Schreier (Character) | $7.8M | 1989 |
76% | 85% | Sophie's Choice | Yetta (Character) | - | 1982 |
88% | 49% | The Big Fix | Aunt Sonya (Character) | - | 1978 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kate & Allie | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1984 |