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Gilda Radner
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American actress and comedian (1946–1989)
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Gilda Radner (1946–1989) was an American comedian, stage actor, television actor, and autobiographer. Born in Detroit, she began her professional work in 1973 and studied under Del Close. Radner received a Primetime Emmy Award, a CableACE Award, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She was also inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame.
Radner was educated at the University of Michigan and was a citizen of the United States. She was married to Gene Wilder and G. E. Smith. Her written works include *It's always something*. She died of ovarian cancer in Los Angeles in 1989 and was buried in Connecticut.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- It's always something
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Detroit, Michigan, United States
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gilda Susan Radner (June 28, 1946 – May 20, 1989) was an American comedian and actress, best known as one of the original cast members of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, for which she won an Emmy Award in 1978. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gilda Radner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
- Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music — Self (archive footage)2025
- You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution... — Self (archive footage)2025
- Remembering Gene Wilder — Self (archive footage)2024
- Belushi — Self (archive footage)2020
- Love, Gilda — Self (archive footage)2018
- Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead — Self - Actress (archive footage)2015
- The Women of SNL — Various (archive footage)2010
- Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women — Self (archive footage)2007
- Saturday Night Live: The Best of Dan Aykroyd — Various Characters (archive footage)2005
- Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live — Self2005
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1946
- Active to
- 1989
Discography
Member of
- Saturday Night Live1975–1980
- The Slicers
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3,899
- Total plays
- 18,675
Tags
Gilda Susan Radner (June 28, 1946 – May 20, 1989) was an American comedienne and actress, best known for her five years as part of the original cast of the NBC comedy series Saturday Night Live. Radner, who died at 42 of ovarian cancer, became an icon for public awareness of both detection and treatment of the disease. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Gilda+Radner">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 3663 population-representative studies with 222 million children, adolescents, and adults
· 2024 · cited 2,064x
- An entropy criterion for assessing the number of clusters in a mixture model
· 1996 · cited 2,002x
- Simplified criteria for the diagnosis of autoimmune hepatitis†
· 2008 · cited 1,653x
- Erlotinib in Lung Cancer — Molecular and Clinical Predictors of Outcome
· 2005 · cited 1,545x
- Screening of Brazilian plant extracts for antioxidant activity by the use of DPPH free radical method
· 2001 · cited 1,528x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.”
- “It is so hard for us little human beings to accept this deal that we get. It's really crazy, isn't it? We get to live, then we have to die. What we put into every moment is all we have… What spirit human beings have! It is a pretty cheesy deal—all the pleasures of life, and then death.”
- “While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die—whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1946-06-28 ) June 28, 1946, Detroit , Michigan, U.S.
- Died
- May 20, 1989 (1989-05-20) (aged 42), Los Angeles , California, U.S.
- Occupations
- Actress comedian
- Years active
- 1972–1989
- Spouses
- G. E. Smith ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1980 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1982 ) Gene Wilder ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1984 )
- Relatives
- Steve Ballmer (second cousin)
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Encyclopedic overview
Gilda Susan Radner (June 28, 1946 – May 20, 1989) was an American actress and comedian.
Radner was one of the seven original cast members of the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from its inception in 1975 until her departure in 1980. In her sketches on SNL, she played various original characters on the show's Weekend Update segment, such as the elderly, hard-of-hearing Emily Litella and the advice specialist Roseanne Roseannadanna, who rarely offered advice but often provided disgusting, off-topic stories. Radner won an Emmy Award for her performances on the show in 1978. She also portrayed those characters, among others, in her one-woman show Gilda, Live on Broadway in 1979 and later on film in 1980.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gilda Radner” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.