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My Take
Fifty years on Broadway is the statistic that stops me cold. Tovah Feldshuh has four Tony nominations and two Emmy nods, but what I admire is her refusal to be just one thing: actress, singer, playwright, equally at home in the miniseries Holocaust and in films like Kissing Jessica Stein. To me she represents the working artist's ideal, someone who treats longevity itself as the masterpiece. Awards come and go; staying employable, curious, and vivid across six decades of a brutal industry is far rarer. Whenever younger performers ask what a sustainable career looks like, Feldshuh is the example I would point to first.
Overview
Terri Sue "Tovah" Feldshuh (born December 27, 1948) is an American actress, singer, and playwright. She has been a Broadway star for fifty years, earning four Tony Award nominations. She has also received two Emmy Award nominations for Holocaust and Law & Order, and appeared in such films as A Walk on the Moon, She's Funny That Way, and Kissing Jessica Stein.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Tovah Feldshuh
- Name (Japanese)
- トバ・フェルドシュ
- Reading
- とば・ふぇるどしゅ
- Born
- December 27, 1952 (age 73)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Capricorn / Dragon
- Origin
- New York City, New York, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- television actor / film actor / writer / playwright / stage actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Scarsdale High School
- University
- Sarah Lawrence College
Awards & achievements
- 1976 Theatre World Award
- 2003 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actress
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
5. Works & records
| Category | Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notable work | The Idolmaker | — | |
| Notable work | Tuner | — |
6. Links
- Official sitehttps://www.tovahfeldshuh.com/
- Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/tovahfeld/
- Xhttps://x.com/TovahwithaV
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tovah%20Feldshuh
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-10
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.