Lainie Kazan (born May 15, 1940) is an American actress and singer. She was nominated for the 1988 Emmy Primetime Award for Best Guest Actress in Drama Series for St. Elsewhere and Tony Award 1993 for Best Lead in Musicals for My Favorite Year . She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her role in My Favorite Year (1982). Kazan plays Maria Portokalos on My Big Fat Greek Wedding and the sequel film My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 .
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Kazan was born Lainie Levine in Brooklyn, New York City, Carole's daughter (nÃÆ' Â © e Kazan) and Ben Levine, Kazan's mother is a Jewish Sephardic whose family is from Jerusalem, his father is from the Russian Ashkenazi Jewish and work as a bookie. Kazan describes his mother as "neurotic, fragile, and artistic." He entered the Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, where he was a senior while Barbra Streisand, whom he later came to understand, was a second-year student. Kazan went on to graduate from Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, on Long Island, in 1960. While at Hofstra, Kazan appeared in a music school written and directed by classmates, director of Academy Award-winning future Francis Ford Coppola.
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Careers
Kazan made his Broadway debut in 1961 with the musical The World's Greatest Girl . He appeared in the following year in another musical, Bravo Giovanni , and in 1964 served as director of Barbra Streisand for the lead role of Fanny Brice in Funny Girl . When Streisand was unable to perform due to a throat condition, Kazan took place at day and night performances for a one day show.
His popularity increased, Kazan posed naked for the October 1970 edition of Playboy, reused in Pocket Playboy 4, was released in 1974. His appearance in magazine opened the door for him to become a headline in and operates two different Playboy Jazz Clubs. Overseen by Hugh Hefner himself, the clubs were called "Lainie's Lounge East" and "Lainie's Lounge West", each on the opposite shore, with those located in Manhattan and others in Los Angeles. The photos Playboy inspired the look of DC Comics Jack Kirby superheroine, Big Barda.
Along with performing at various banquet clubs around the country, Kazan guested in various series of Dean Martin twenty-six times. Other television jobs include repetitive roles as Aunt Frieda on the sitcom Fran Drescher The Nanny , mother of Kirstie Alley character about Veronica's Closet, role of guest at St. Elsewhere that resulted in an Emmy nomination). Other television jobs include The Paper Chase, Touched by Angel, and Will & amp; Grace as Aunt Grace Grace.
One of his more recognizable film roles today is Maria Portokalos, mother of the main character Nia Vardalos, Toula Portokalos in My Big Fat Greek Wedding films and My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 . Following the first film in the franchise, Kazan is featured in the short-lived My Big Fat Greek Life, based on the movie. Other recent films include the mother of the Adam Sandler character at I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry . Although the scene was removed in the feature film, it was included in the DVD in the special features section. Kazan has appeared as Ava St Clair's famous singer with Chuck and Larry co-star Kevin James in two episodes of The King of Queens, a TV series with James in the lead role.
A member of The Actors Studio's life, Kazan returned to Broadway to create his film role for my Favorite Year's music adaptation, earning Tony Award nomination for his performance. He completed the assignment at The Vagina Monologues . She also appeared in the regional production of A Little Night Music, Man of La Mancha, Gypsy Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf? , Hello, Dolly! , and Fiddler on the Roof , among others. In 1984, he made a guest appearance on the episode of "Faerie Tale Theater" Pinocchio as Sophia the Blue Fairy.
She appeared in the episode of Ugly Betty, playing the mother of Bobby, who soon became the central character's brother-in-law. She appeared in one episode, "Fire and Nice". In 2010, Kazan joined the cast of Desperate Housewives for Season 7. He plays the role of the business owner and Susan's neighbor.
Personal life
After meeting the direction of music director, Peter H.B. Daniels on the Broadway musical Funny Girl , where Kazan is a cast member and he is an orchestra orchestra association, both starting a five-year relationship. They married some time after the birth of their daughter in 1971, Jennifer. The marriage did not last long, and Kazan was single again in 1976.
In the mid-1970s, Kazan was diagnosed with deep vein thrombosis (DVT). Since then, he has dedicated his time to public education about DVT. On April 9, 2016, Kazan was injured in a direct collision. Kazan drove his sport when the collision occurred in front of a Greek restaurant in Sherman Oaks, California. Kazan was hospitalized after the accident.
Beginning in 2012, Kazan became a professor at UCLA, teaching acting classes and directing his students in drama department production. He has served on the Board of Young Musicians Foundation, LA AIDS Project, and B'nai Brith, California Jazz Foundation, and his alma mater, Hofstra University.
Movieography
Movies
Television
Phase work
- Leave it to Jane (1959) (Outside-Broadway)
- Kittiwake Island (1960) (Outside-Broadway)
- The Greatest Girl in the World (1961) (Broadway)
- Bravo Giovanni (1962) (Broadway)
- Funny Girl (1964) (Broadway) (also a replacement for Barbra Streisand)
- Man of La Mancha (1972) (Westbury Music Fair)
- Seesaw (1973) (Broadway) (replaced by Michele Lee before it opened)
- Show Boats (1979) (US national tour)
- Gypsy (1992) (Westbury Music Fair)
- My Loved Year (1992) (Broadway)
- Government Inspector (1994) (Broadway)
- Fabrics (2006) (World AIDS Day charity concert)
- Bermuda Avenue Triangle (2006) (Los Angeles) Discussion
- Lainie Kazan (1966) SE-4385 MGMRecords (original studio album)
- Right Now (1966) SE-4340MGM Records (original studio album, with arm notes by Dean Martin)
- Love Is Lainie (1967) SE-4496 MGM Records (original studio album)
- The Love Album (1967) SE 4451 MGMRecords (original studio album)
- The Best of Lainie Kazan (1969) SE-4631 MGM Records (compilation album)
- The Chanteuse is Loose (1977) LK515 Lainie & amp; Co. (original studio album)
- Body & amp; Soul (1995) 65126 MusicMasters (original studio album)
- In Groove (1998) 65168 MusicMasters (original studio album)
- Lainie Kazan on IMDb
- 69372 Lainie Kazan on Broadway Internet Database
- Lainie Kazan on the Internet Off-Broadway Database
- "Lainie Kazan papers: 1960-1998". New York Public Library . Retrieved December 27 2017 .
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