Emerging from a Pittsburgh childhood as the youngest child of Polish-Jewish immigrants, she earned a bachelor’s degree in bacteriology at the University of Pittsburgh before pursuing acting studies at the University of California, Berkeley, after a stint as a medical-laboratory technician.
Her breakthrough arrived with the role of the eccentric medium Tangina Barrons, a character she reprised i… Read more
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
Known for Poltergeist 1982 Sixteen Candles 1984 Tales from the Crypt 1989 Hey Arnold! 1996 Series ★ 8.1 E! True Hollywood Story 1996
Series ★ 8.1 Faerie Tale Theatre 1982
The Old Woman Series ★ 8 Hey Arnold! 1996
Series ★ 8 Tales from the Crypt 1989
Nora Series ★ 7.5 Martin 1992
Nurse Froyd Series ★ 7.4 The Pretender 1996
Pawn Shop Lady Series ★ 7.4 Picket Fences 1992
Ginny Weedon Series ★ 7.4 Darkwing Duck 1991
Darkwing Duck's Mother / Negaduck's Mother (voice) Series ★ 7.3 The Flintstone Comedy Show 1980
Atrocia Frankenstone ★ 7.2 Poltergeist 1982
Tangina Barrons ★ 6.9 Frances 1982
Mental Patient ★ 6.8 Sixteen Candles 1984
Organist Series ★ 6.7 Goof Troop 1992
Madame Zeldarina (voice) Series ★ 6.6 Caroline in the City 1995
Phyllis ★ 6.4 Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon 2006
Mrs. Collinwood ★ 6.4 Anguish 1987
Alice Pressman, the Mother Series ★ 6.3 Matt Houston 1982
Series ★ 6.2 Poltergeist: The Legacy 1996
Christina ★ 6 Teen Witch 1989
Madame Serina ★ 6 Poltergeist II: The Other Side 1986
Tangina Barrons ★ 5.3 Southland Tales 2007
Dr. Katarina Kuntzler ★ 5.2 Wishcraft 2002
Medical Examiner ★ 5.2 Poltergeist III 1988
Tangina Barrons ★ 5.1 Under the Rainbow 1981
Iris ★ 4.1 Little Witches 1996
Mother Clodah ★ 4 National Lampoon's Last Resort 1994
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