Carol Kane
Acting • Born 1952-06-18
Biography
Carolyn Laurie Kane (born June 18, 1952) is an American actress and comedian. She became known in the 1970s in films such as Hester Street (for which she received an Oscar nomination) and Annie Hall. She appeared on the television series Taxi in the early 1980s, as Simka Gravas, the wife of Latka, the character played by Andy Kaufman, winning two Emmy Awards for her work. She has played the character of Madame Morrible in the musical Wicked, both in regional productions and on Broadway from 2005 to 2014. From 2015 to 2018 she was a main cast member on the Netflix original series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, in which she played Lillian Kaushtupper.
Filmography
188 credits
Dog Day Afternoon
Movie • 1975
Jenny
Annie Hall
Movie • 1977
Allison
The Pacifier
Movie • 2005
Helga
The Princess Bride
Movie • 1987
Valerie
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Movie • 1986
Cynthia
When a Stranger Calls Back
Movie • 1993
Jill Johnson
The Pallbearer
Movie • 1996
Tom's Mother
Transylvania 6-5000
Movie • 1985
Lupi
My First Mister
Movie • 2001
Mrs. Benson
Scrooged
Movie • 1988
Ghost of Christmas Present
Ishtar
Movie • 1987
Carol
Flashback
Movie • 1990
Maggie
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Movie • 1994
Carla
Trees Lounge
Movie • 1996
Connie
License to Drive
Movie • 1988
Mrs. Anderson
Carnal Knowledge
Movie • 1971
Jennifer
Sunset Park
Movie • 1996
Mona
Theodore Rex
Movie • 1995
Molly Rex (voice)
Hester Street
Movie • 1975
Gitl
Valentino
Movie • 1977
Starlet
Keeping On
Movie • 1983
Lavinia
Strong Medicine
Movie • 1981
The Last Detail
Movie • 1973
Young Whore
Addiction: A 60's Love Story
Movie • 2015
Cecilia
The Greatest Man in the World
Movie • 1981
April
The World's Greatest Lover
Movie • 1977
Annie Hickman
My Blue Heaven
Movie • 1990
Shaldeen
When a Stranger Calls
Movie • 1979
Jill Johnson
iMordecai
Movie • 2023
Fela
The Shrink Is In
Movie • 2001
Louise Rosenberg
Harvey
Movie • 2012
Betty Chumley
Migration
Movie • 2023
Erin (voice)
Office Killer
Movie • 1997
Dorine Douglas
Jawbreaker
Movie • 1999
Ms. Sherwood
Billy and Mandy Save Christmas
Movie • 2005
Mrs. Claus (voice)
Between the Temples
Movie • 2024
Carla Kessler
Love in the Time of Money
Movie • 2002
Joey
Pandemonium
Movie • 1982
Candy
Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim
Movie • 1987
Fortune Teller
Ted & Venus
Movie • 1991
Colette
Norman Loves Rose
Movie • 1982
Rose
The Lemon Sisters
Movie • 1990
Franki D'Angelo
Should've Been Romeo
Movie • 2012
Ruth
Thanks for Sharing
Movie • 2013
Roberta
The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald: The Visitors from Outer Space
Movie • 1999
Ogg's Mother (voice)
Harry and Walter Go to New York
Movie • 1976
Florence
Baby on Board
Movie • 1992
Maria
How Real is 'The Star'?
Movie • 2005
Self
Sticky Fingers
Movie • 1988
Kitty
The Games of Countess Dolingen
Movie • 1981
Louise Haines-Pearson
The Crazysitter
Movie • 1994
Treva Van Arsdale
Over the Brooklyn Bridge
Movie • 1984
Cheryl
Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Underground Rock Experience
Movie • 2022
Grand-Mah (voice)
Waiting for Ishtar
Movie • 2017
Self
Casey at the Bat
Movie • 1986
Barbara Dent
Emoticon
Movie • 2014
Hannah Song
The Tic Code
Movie • 1998
Miss Gimpole
The Mafu Cage
Movie • 1978
Cissy
Wedding in White
Movie • 1972
Jeannie Dougall
Merry Christmas, George Bailey
Movie • 1997
Cousin Tilly / Mrs. Hatch
Big Bully
Movie • 1996
Faith Bigger
The Muppet Movie
Movie • 1979
"Myth"
Desperate Characters
Movie • 1971
Young Girl
The Civilization of Maxwell Bright
Movie • 2005
Temple
Remembering Gene Wilder
Movie • 2024
Self
Addams Family Values
Movie • 1993
Granny
Racing with the Moon
Movie • 1984
Annie the Hooker
American Strays
Movie • 1996
Helen
Man on the Moon
Movie • 1999
Self (uncredited)
Ava's Possessions
Movie • 2015
Talia
Sleepwalk with Me
Movie • 2012
Linda
My Girlfriend's Boyfriend
Movie • 2010
Barbara
The Year Without a Santa Claus
Movie • 2006
Mother Nature
Rap Master Ronnie: A Report Card
Movie • 1988
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five
Movie • 2008
Sheep (voice)
Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows
Movie • 2016
Self
Joe Versus the Volcano
Movie • 1990
Hairdresser
The Real Story of Here Comes the Bride
Movie • 1992
Margaret Mouse (voice)
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Movie • 2009
Self
Cosmopolitan
Movie • 2003
Mrs. Shaw
Sleeping Beauty
Movie • 1983
The Good Fairy
Audrey's Rain
Movie • 2003
Missy Flanders
Bob Goldthwait: Don't Watch This Show
Movie • 1986
Self
The Sisters Brothers
Movie • 2018
Mrs Sisters
Drop-Out Mother
Movie • 1988
Maxine
The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
Movie • 1984
Martha Bernays
Burning Rage
Movie • 1984
Mary Harwood
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
Movie • 2017
Self
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
Movie • 2004
Miss Baggoli
A Constant Forge
Movie • 2000
Self
Clutter
Movie • 2013
Linda Bradford
The Bounty Hunter
Movie • 2010
Dawn
Ghost Light
Movie • 2018
Madeline Styne
Tomorrow by Midnight
Movie • 2001
Officer Garfield
Bette Davis: Larger Than Life
Movie • 2017
Self
The Dead Don't Die
Movie • 2019
Mallory O'Brien
Out of Our Fathers' House
Movie • 1978
Eliza Southgate
An Invasion of Privacy
Movie • 1983
Ilene
Gone Fishin'
Movie • 1997
Donna Waters
The Happy Elf
Movie • 2005
Gilda (voice)
Pete Smalls Is Dead
Movie • 2010
Landlady
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend
Movie • 2020
Lillian Kaushtupper
Dad, the Angel & Me
Movie • 1995
Sam's Angel
In the Soup
Movie • 1992
Barbara
Love, Loss, and What I Wore
Movie • 2020
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Music: A Live Singing Contest (That's Live)
Movie • 2020
Self
The Key Man
Movie • 2011
Marsha
Joan Micklin Silver: Encounters with the New York Director
Movie • 1983
Self
A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion
Movie • 2020
Valerie
Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
Movie • 1983
Customer At Cafe
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories
Movie • 1981
Frances Loomis
Napoleon
Movie • 1995
Spider (voice)
Bette and Joan: Blind Ambition
Movie • 2006
Self
La Sabina
Movie • 1979
Daisy
Harvey
Movie • 2021
Betty Chumley
Four Christmases
Movie • 2008
Aunt Sarah
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Movie • 1994
Self (archive footage)
Freaky Friday
Movie • 1995
Leanne Futterman
Boundary Waters
Movie • 2024
Granny
The Man Who Married a French Wife and Other Stories
Movie • 1982
Frances Loomis
Andy Kaufman Is Me
Movie • 2025
Self
Caught Stealing
Movie • 2025
Bubbe
Carol & Joy
Movie • 2025
Self
Let's Get Mom
Movie • 1989
Maureen
Anxious People
Movie
Roommates
Movie • 2026
American Dreamer
TV • 1990
Lillian Abernathy
Tales from the Darkside
TV • 1984
Anne MacColl
Seinfeld
TV • 1989
Corinne
The Tony Danza Show
TV • 2004
Self - Guest
Family Guy
TV • 1999
Carol (voice)
Hope & Faith
TV • 2003
Cornelia Rackett
Taxi
TV • 1978
Simka Gravas
Monk
TV • 2002
Joy
As Told by Ginger
TV • 2000
Maude Webley (voice)
Tales from the Crypt
TV • 1989
Judy
Two and a Half Men
TV • 2003
Shelly
Laverne & Shirley
TV • 1976
Ugly Betty
TV • 2006
Lena Korvinka
The Ray Bradbury Theater
TV • 1985
Polly Horne
Homicide: Life on the Street
TV • 1993
Gwen Munch
Late Night with David Letterman
TV • 1982
Self
Chicago Hope
TV • 1994
Marguerite Birch
That's Life
TV • 2000
Crazy like a Fox
TV • 1984
Iris Buckles
Pearl
TV • 1996
Annie Caraldo
Blue's Clues
TV • 1996
Brooklyn Bridge
TV • 1991
All is Forgiven
TV • 1986
Nicolette Bingham
Gotham
TV • 2014
Gertrude Kapelput
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
TV • 2015
Lillian Kaushtupper
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
TV • 2022
Commander Pelia
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV • 1999
Gwen Munch
The Ready Room
TV • 2019
Self
Crowded
TV • 2016
Linda
Cheers
TV • 1982
Amanda
Star vs. the Forces of Evil
TV • 2015
Dr. Jelly Goodwell (voice)
Jake and the Never Land Pirates
TV • 2011
The Sea Witch (voice)
Hollywood Squares
TV • 1998
Self - Panelist
Hey Arnold!
TV • 1996
Emily Dickinson Trophy (voice)
Reading Rainbow
TV • 1983
Self - Narrator (voice)
Phineas and Ferb
TV • 2007
Additional Voices (voice)
Faerie Tale Theatre
TV • 1982
The 'Good' Fairy
Noah's Ark
TV • 1999
Sarah
Taxi
TV • 1978
Simka Dahblitz
Phineas and Ferb
TV • 2007
Nana Shapiro (voice)
The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
TV • 2001
Mrs. Claus
Noddy
TV • 1998
The Tooth Fairy
Summer Camp Island
TV • 2018
Barb Jr. (voice)
Hunters
TV • 2020
Mindy Markowitz
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV • 2009
Self - Guest
Dinner with the Parents
TV • 2024
Rose / Nana
Tall Tales & Legends
TV • 1985
Barbara
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
TV • 2023
Bube Bina (voice)
The Simpsons
TV • 1989
Blythe (voice)
Tiny Toon Adventures
TV • 1990
Ollie (voice)
Stars in the House
TV • 2020
Self
The Tony Danza Show
TV • 1997
Simka Gravaas
Big Mouth
TV • 2017
Menopause Banshee / Old Woman (voice)
Ellen
TV • 1994
Lily Penney
Bubble Guppies
TV • 2011
Sea Witch (voice)
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Eliza Southgate
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Francis Loomis
Anger Management
TV • 2012
Carol
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
TV • 2023
Bubbe Bina (voice)
Poker Face
TV • 2023
Lucille Lubinski
Playhouse
TV • 1974
Frances Loomis
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
TV • 2005
Sam