Raised in a Jewish family in Washington, D.C., she entered the entertainment world through cabaret in the late 1970s, performing with the comedy troupe The High-Heeled Women. A breakthrough arrived when she embodied the quirky Calliope Jones on the NBC soap Days of Our Lives, a role she revisited several times between 1984 and 2010, and she later portrayed Geneva, the witty maid on Fox’s dramedy D…
