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Carol Kane The career contains multitudes. For some, she will always be synonymous with Simka Dahblitz, Latka (Andy Kaufman) Girlfriend of the old country, in the legendary 1980ssitcomTaxi. To others, she will always be Valerie, the argumentative wife ofBilly Crystal is Max miracle in 1987The princess to marry. Still others know his best like Lillian Kaushtupper, the owner amoral but good at heart of the main character in the much more recent hit,Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

These emblematic roles only scrape the surface of Kane's career. Continue to read to learn what she has been doing since her timeTaxi, and to see her now, at 70 years old.

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Although it is best known for comedy, Kane's roots are in the theater. At 23, she was nominated for an Oscar for her role as a young immigrant wife Gitl in the drama on a low budgetHester Street. However, the sudden rise toFame "frightened" And led her to refuse potentially important dramatic roles due to a serious case of impostor syndrome, as she explained to the HuffPost in 2020.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

Several years later - follow roles in filmsWhen a foreigner calls andAnnie Hall- She received a call fromJames L. BrooksTo see if she would be interested inPlay the role of Simka Dahblitz, the recently immigrant girlfriend of Latka, onTaxi. Kane won two Emmy Awards for her work on the series and quickly found his way in other offbeat comic characters, of whichThe princess to marry"S Valerie and the Christmas ghost presentCurly.

She returned to the drama in the Amazon series of Al Pacino 2020Hunters, playing a singer of the holocaust who became Nazi-Chasseur in pursuit of his son's killer. Other notable concerts over the years and on television includeJoe against the volcano,,Jackin 'Jack Flash,,Addams family values, the Kaufman biopicMan on the moon (like herself), 10 episodes of the Fox Superhero dramaGotham, and more than a dozen roles of voiceover in various animated series.

Although Kane never married and has kept her personal life largely outside the press, she had a public relationship. From 1986, she came outWoody Harrelson, then famous for his role as bartender Woody onCheers. (Kane Guest played in the sitcom as an Amanda mental patient in 1984.)

"We had a friendship that became a romance then a friendship", "Harrelson saidPeople After their break in 1988. This friendship survived decades, the two appearing in the 1991 filmTed & Venus and HarrelsonAttend Kane's 60th anniversary Party in 2012.

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Even keeping busy with dozens of cinematographic and television projects, Kane also managed to launch an impressive career on stage. She traveled Broadway boards twice in the 1970s, including in a production of the winning room of PulitzerThe effect of gamma rays on man's concerns in the moon, but its most sustainable role would arrive three decades later.

In 2005, Kane played the role of Mrs. Morrible, director of the school, of the witches of Oz, in the National Touring Company ofNasty, the musical based on the novel byGregory Maguire. The actor would return to the character several times, at Broadway in 2006 and again in 2013, and in the original actors of the productions of Los Angeles (2008) and San Francisco (2009). She even said that she would entertain a return for the planned cinematographic version, which should be released as a two -part film from 2024. "I would lovePlay Madame Morrible again, what I did for many years. I love this part, "Kane told Vulture last year." What is so genius of musical on stage is that they were able to create this full fantastic world so completely ... it must be a film! ""

Kane found a new generation of fans with his fearless and shameless representation of Lillian Dolomite Kaushtupper, the perhaps criminal owner of the new innocent Varies of New York Kimmy in NetflixUnbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, co-created byTina Fey And withEllie Kemper. The comedy worked for four seasons on the streaming network, ending with the "interactive film"Kimmy against the Reverend in 2020.

Kane found a strangelypersonal connection to the apparently bizarre character. "I think she is a real fighter because she had to be, considering everything that life sent her and the challenges she had to face to earn her living," she said in a Interview with Meaww. "And I have the impression that I am a fighter too, and I had to be for different reasons. Things in my childhood and adolescence were far from perfect, then I went out while fighting."

The day of Star Trek in September, Paramount announced that Kane would join the second season ofStar Trek: Strange New Worlds. According to the traces of funny colleaguesTIG Notaro andSimon Pegg, theTaxiStar will play an engineer, namely the chief engineer Pelia. The official description indicates that the character, who replaces the late Hemmer (Bruce Horak), is "very educated and intelligent" and continuous ", this engineer does not suffer from fools; Pelia solves problems calmly and suddenly, thanks to its many years of experience.