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Madeline Kahn was an American actress whose career began in 1967. She is associated with Broadway and is recognized as an actress. Her notable work includes *An American Tail*.
Kahn was born on September 29, 1942. She passed away on December 3, 1999.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- An American Tail
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 4,030
- Total plays
- 22,414
Tags
Madeline Kahn (September 29, 1942 – December 3, 1999) was an American actress of movie, television, and theater distinguished by an unusual gift for comedy. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Madeline+Kahn">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,756x
- PSYCHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS OF PERSONAL ENGAGEMENT AND DISENGAGEMENT AT WORK.
· 1990 · cited 11,053x
- Integrated Genomic Analysis Identifies Clinically Relevant Subtypes of Glioblastoma Characterized by Abnormalities in PDGFRA, IDH1, EGFR, and NF1
· 2010 · cited 6,478x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
· 2017 · cited 6,171x
- Rapid chromatographic technique for preparative separations with moderate resolution
· 1978 · cited 5,485x
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Key facts
- Born
- Madeline Gail Wolfson , ( 1942-09-29 ) September 29, 1942, Boston , Massachusetts , U.S.
- Died
- December 3, 1999 (1999-12-03) (aged 57), New York City , U.S.
- Education
- Hofstra University
- Occupations
- Actress comedian singer
- Years active
- 1964–1999
- Spouse
- John Hansbury ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1999 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Boston
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- actor
- Educated at
- Hofstra University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- acting
- Image
- Madeline Kahn publicity.jpg
- Voice type
- soprano
Show 9 more facts
- birth name
- Madeline Gail Wolfson
- date of death
- 1999-01-01
- date of birth
- 1942-01-01
- nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- Madeline Kahn
- name in native language
- Madeline Kahn
- start of work period
- 1967-00-00
- cause of death
- ovarian cancer
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Encyclopedic overview
Madeline Gail Kahn (née Wolfson; September 29, 1942 – December 3, 1999) was an American actress, comedian, and singer. She was known for her comedic roles in films directed by Peter Bogdanovich and Mel Brooks, including What's Up, Doc? (1972), Young Frankenstein (1974), High Anxiety (1977), History of the World, Part I (1981), and her Academy Award–nominated roles in Paper Moon (1973) and Blazing Saddles (1974).
Kahn made her Broadway debut in Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1968, and received Tony Award nominations for the play In the Boom Boom Room in 1974 and for the original production of the musical On the Twentieth Century in 1978. She starred as Madeline Wayne on the short-lived sitcom Oh Madeline (1983–84) and won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1987 for an ABC Afterschool Special. She received a third Tony Award nomination for the revival of the play Born Yesterday in 1989, before winning the 1993 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the comedy The Sisters Rosensweig. Her other film appearances included The Cheap Detective (1978), Yellowbeard (1983), City Heat (1984), Clue (1985), and Nixon (1995).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Madeline Kahn” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.