Rita Karin was a Polish-born American actress best known for her role as Jackie Mason's mother on the 1989 TV series Chicken Soup. She also appeared as Meryl Streep's Brooklyn landlady who appears at the beginning of Sophie's Choice. C.
Filmography 12
Sophie's Choice
He Said, She Said
Enemies, a Love Story
The Big Fix
Up the Sandbox
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
The Pickle
Matilda
Age Isn't Everything
Kojak: The Belarus File
StarstruckNicky's World
15 credits on file
Television 3
Kate & Allie
ABC Afterschool Special
Chicken SoupConnected to Rita 6
About this person
Rita Karin was a Polish-born American actress best known for her role as Jackie Mason's mother on the 1989 TV series Chicken Soup. She also appeared as Meryl Streep's Brooklyn landlady who appears at the beginning of Sophie's Choice. Her voice can be heard singing children's songs from the camps in the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
Category
Actors
Type
Actor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1919 to 1993 · aged 73
Written about in
10 languages
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