Madalyn kahn biography

American actress and comedian, best known for her ditzy characters in the films of Mel Brooks. Born Madeline Gail Kahn on September 29, 1942, in Boston, Massachusetts; died of ovarian cancer on December 3, 1999, in New York, New York; daughter of Bernard B.

Wolfson (a dress manufacturer) and Paula (Wolfson) Kahn; graduated from Martin Van Buren High School, Queens; Hofstra University, Hempstead, Long Island, B.A., 1964; married John Hansbury (an attorney), on October 6, 1999.

Selected theater:

Made Broadway debut in New Faces of 1968 ; appeared as Goldie in Two by Two (1970), Chrissy in Boom Boom Room (1973), the shopgirl in She Loves Me (1977); appeared in On the Twentieth Century (1978), as Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday (1988), as Gorgeous Teitelbaum in The Sisters Rosensweig (1992).

Selected filmography:

What's Up Doc?

(1972); Paper Moon (1973); From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1973); Blazing Saddles