Rita Karin
Acting
Born October 24, 1919, Wilno, Wilenskie, Poland [now Vilnius, Lithuania]
She was a Polish-born American actress best known for her role as Jackie Mason's mother on the 1989 TV series Chicken Soup. Also appeared at the beginning of Sophie's Choice as Yetta, Sophie's (Meryl Streep) landlady. Her voice can be heard singing children's songs from the camps in the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
Filmography
- 1993The Pickle — Grandmother
- 1991Age Isn't Everything — Flo
- 1991He Said, She Said — Mrs. Spepk
- Chicken Soup — Bea Fisher
- 1989Enemies, a Love Story — Mrs. Schreier
- 1985Kojak: The Belarus File
- Kate & Allie
- 1982Sophie's Choice — Yetta
- 1981Starstruck — Mrs. Reuben
- 1978Matilda — Spectator
- 1978The Big Fix — Aunt Sonya
- 1974Nicky's World — Mrs. Mylonas
- ABC Afterschool Special — Mrs. Reuben
- 1972Up the Sandbox — Mrs. Grossbard (uncredited)
- 1971The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight — Mrs. Goldfarb