Terri Sue "Tovah" Feldshuh 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. In 2015–2016, she played the role of Deanna Monroe on AMC's television adaptation of The Walking Dead.

Filmography

• 2026Lay Lefty Down — Aunt Eudora
• M.I.A. — Lena
• 2026Tuner — Marla Horowitz
• 2026Westhampton — Mrs. Lucas
• 2025A Girl Like Him — Noona Grey, Executive Producer
• 2025Malka — Malka
• Nobody Wants This — Bina Roklov
• 2024The Walking Dead: The Return — Deanna Monroe (archive footage)
• 2024We Should Eat — Diane
• 2023Bleecker — Linda
• Harlan Coben's Shelter — Bat Lady
• 2022Armageddon Time — Mickey Graff
• 2022Come Find Me — Helena
• 2021Clifford the Big Red Dog — Mrs. Crullerman
• Scenes from a Marriage — Miryam Levy
• 2020The Book of Ruth — Ruth
• 2019Golda's Balcony — Golda Meir
• 2019Love Type D — Dr. Elsa Blomgren
• 2019Remember Amnesia — Dr. Paula Smith
• Star Wars Resistance — Aunt Z / Random Human (voice), Aunt Z (voice)
• 2017Angelica — Nora
• Salvation — President Pauline Mackenzie
• 2016Baked in Brooklyn — David's Mom
• Bull — Judge Garner
• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend — Naomi Bunch
• Flesh and Bone — Ivana
• 2015She's Funny That Way — Miriam Pendergast
• 2014A Little Game — Blackstone Head of School
• 2013The Hyperglot — Elaine
• 2010A Buddy Story — Buddy's Mom
• 2010Everyday the Impossible: Jewish Women in the Partisans — Narrator
• 2010Heterosexuals — Remy
• The Walking Dead — Deanna Monroe
• 2009Acts of Mercy — Nurse Ruth Baker
• The Good Wife — Lena
• 2008Eavesdrop — Susie
• 2008Language of the Enemy — Rebecca Meir
• 2007Love Comes Lately — Ethel
• 2007Love Life — Hannah
• 2006Just My Luck — Madame Z
• 2006Lady in the Water — Mrs. Bubchik
• 2006O Jerusalem — Golda Meir
• Ugly Betty — Mrs. Varner
• 2005Alchemy — Senior Editor
• 2005Life on the Ledge — Mother
• 2004The Tollbooth — Ruthie Cohen
• Queens Supreme
• 2002Kissing Jessica Stein — Judy Stein
• 2002New World Order — Sponge-Brush Woman
• 2002The End of the Bar — Mrs. Garner
• Crossing Jordan — Elaine Brandau
• 2001Friends and Family — Alma Jennings
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Danielle Melnick
• 2001The Believer — Woman in Shul at Rosh Hashannah
• 2000Happy Accidents — Lillian
• 1999A Walk on the Moon — Lillian Kantrowitz
• 1999The Corruptor — U.S. Attorney Margaret Wheeler
• A Will of their Own — Mrs. Rubenstein
• 1998Montana — Greta
• 1997Hudson River Blues — Charlotte
• 1995Comfortably Numb — Victoria Stevens
• Love and Betrayal: The Mia Farrow Story — Eleanor Alter (uncredited)
• 1995The Real Shlemiel — Zlateh the Goat / Aunt Sarah / The Matchmaker (voice)
• 1992Citizen Cohn — Iva Schlesinger
• 1991A Day in October — Emma Kublitz
• 1991Saying Kaddish
• 1990All That Glitters — Mrs. Carr
• Law & Order — Danielle Melnick
• 1988The Blue Iguana — Detective Vera
• Mariah — Deena Hertz
• L.A. Law — Lynn Palmer
• 1985Brewster's Millions — Marilyn
• 1985Silver Bullet — Older Jane (voice)
• The Equalizer — Samantha Page
• Airwolf — Sarah Lebow
• 1983Daniel — Linda Mindish
• 1981Cheaper to Keep Her — K. D. Locke
• 1980The Idolmaker — Brenda Roberts
• 1980The Women's Room — Iso
• Beggarman, Thief — Monika Wolner
• 1979The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal — Florence
• 1978A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court — Sandy
• Holocaust — Helena Slomová
• 1978Nunzio — Michelle
• 1978Terror Out of the Sky — Jeannie Devereux
• 1977The Amazing Howard Hughes — Katharine Hepburn
• The Amazing Howard Hughes — Katharine Hepburn
• The Love Boat — Susan Ridley
• 1977World of Darkness — Clara Sanford
• Gibbsville
• 1973Scream, Pretty Peggy — Agnes Thornton
• The Bob Newhart Show — Veronica Kidd
• C-Side — Mrs. Klein
• Dirty Rhetoric — Bea
• Not Dead Yet — Paulette
• Start Without Me — Roz
• The Let Go
• The Upside of Unrequited — Grandma Betty

Appearances as themselves (7)

• 2026TOVAH — Self
• Stars in the House — Self
• Talking Dead — Self
• 2007Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women — Self
• The View — Self
• Reading Rainbow — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Broadway: The Next Generation — Self