Dinah Manoff is an American stage, film, and television actress and television director. She is best known for her roles as Carol Weston on Empty Nest, Elaine Lefkowitz on Soap, Marty Maraschino in the film Grease, and Libby Tucker in both the stage and film adaptations of I Ought to Be in Pictures, for which she won a Tony Award.

Filmography

• 2017The Grease Story — Marty Maraschino
• Behind Closed Doors with Natalie Morales — Marty Maraschino (archive footage)
• 2008Bart Got a Room — Mrs. Goodson
• 2003A Carol Christmas — Aunt Marla
• State of Grace — Evelyn Rayburn
• 2001The Amati Girls — Denise
• 2001Zigs — Marge
• 2000The Lost Child — Helen
• Movie Stars — Director
• Brother's Keeper — Director
• George & Leo
• Sabrina, the Teenage Witch — Director
• Cybill — Amy Fitzpatrick
• Minor Adjustments — Director
• Sister, Sister — Director
• Touched by an Angel — Callie Martin
• The John Larroquette Show — Kelly
• 1992Maid for Each Other — Tibby Bloom, Story, Executive Producer
• 1990Babies — Laura
• Blossom — Dinah Manoff
• 1990Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael — Evelyn Whittacher
• 1989Bloodhounds of Broadway — Maud Milligan
• 1989Staying Together — Lois Cook
• 1989The Cover Girl and the Cop — Denise Danielovitch
• 1988Backfire — Jill
• 1988Child's Play — Maggie Peterson
• Empty Nest — Carol Weston, Director
• 1986Classified Love — Theresa Leonetti
• The Golden Girls — Carol Weston
• 1984A Matter of Sex — Glennis Rasmussen
• Celebrity — Missy Craymore
• 1984Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac — Priscilla Tirado
• Hot Pursuit
• Murder, She Wrote — Jenny Coopersmith
• Night Court — Sara Williams
• 1984The Seduction of Gina — Mary
• American Playhouse — Maud Milligan
• Cagney & Lacey
• 1982I Ought to Be in Pictures — Libby Tucker
• 1982Table Settings
• 1981For Ladies Only — Mary Louise
• 1980Ordinary People — Karen
• $weepstake$ — Maggie
• 1978Grease — Marty
• 1977Night Terror — Attendant's Girlfriend
• Soap — Elaine Lefkowitz, Elaine Lefkowitz Dallas
• 1977The Possessed — Celia
• 1976Everybody Rides the Carousel — Stage 7 (voice)
• 1976Raid on Entebbe — Rachel Sager
• 1976The Stronger
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Helen

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2024Doc of Chucky — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self