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Dinah Manoff: Biography

Birth Name: Dinah Beth Manoff
Birth Place: New York, NY
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 01/25/1958, Aquarius
Profession: Actor

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Dinah Manoff Fast Facts:

Accepted into the Actors Studio in New York at age of 17.
First sitcom (Soap) regular whose character was murdered on camera in television history; she also played the first screen victim of the murderous Chucky in Child's Play.
Appeared on Broadway in Leader of the Pack and I Ought to Be in Pictures. Her role in the latter production earned her a 1980 Tony award as well as the self-confidence needed to escape the shadow of her mother, Lee Grant, an actress who won an Oscar.
Her father, Arnold Manoff, was a TV writer who was blacklisted for "un-American" activities during the controversial days of McCarthyism. In 1992, she paid tribute to him with her directorial debut, of Telegram From Heaven, at Hollywood's Hudson Theatre; it was based on his novel of the same name.
In 2010, she attended the Seattle International Film Festival in connection with Grease Sing-along; Manoff played Marty in the original 1978 release of Grease.

Dinah Manoff Relationships:
Lee Grant - Mother
Arnold Manoff - Father
Jean-Marc Joubert - Ex-husband
Arthur Mortell - Husband
Dashiell Mortell - Son
Tom Manoff - Brother
Oliver Mortell - Son
Desi Mortell - Son
Dinah Manoff Awards:
1980 Tony: Actress (Featured Role--Play) - Winner
College:
Attended California Institute of the Arts

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