Tovah Feldshuh
Biography
Terri Sue "Tovah" Feldshuh (born December 27, 1948) 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.
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Acting History
2025
Tuner as Marla
2025Westhampton as Mrs. Lucas
2025A Girl Like Him as Noona Grey
2025Malka as Malka
2024Nobody Wants This as Bina Roklov
2024The Walking Dead: The Return as Deanna Monroe (archive footage)
2023Harlan Coben's Shelter as Bat Lady
2023Bleecker as Linda
2022Come Find Me as Helena
2022Armageddon Time as Mickey Graff
2021Clifford the Big Red Dog as Mrs. Crullerman
2021Scenes from a Marriage as Miryam Levy
2020The Book of Ruth as Ruth
2020Stars in the House as Self
2019Love Type D as Dr. Elsa Blomgren
2019Remember Amnesia as Dr. Paula Smith
2019Golda's Balcony as Golda Meir
2018Star Wars Resistance as Aunt Z / Random Human (voice)
2018Star Wars Resistance as Aunt Z (voice)
2017Angelica as Nora
2017Broadway: The Next Generation as Self
2017Salvation as President Pauline Mackenzie
2016Baked in Brooklyn as David's Mom
2016Bull as Judge Garner
2015Flesh and Bone as Ivana
2015Crazy Ex-Girlfriend as Naomi Bunch
2015She's Funny That Way as Miriam Pendergast
2014A Little Game as Blackstone Head of School
2013The Hyperglot as Elaine
2012Beautiful People as Lynch
2011Talking Dead as Self
2010The Walking Dead as Deanna Monroe
2010Heterosexuals as Remy
2010A Buddy Story as Buddy's Mom
2010Everyday the Impossible: Jewish Women in the Partisans as Narrator
2009The Good Wife as Lena
2009Acts of Mercy as Nurse Ruth Baker
2008Eavesdrop as Susie
2008A House Divided as Rebecca Meir
2007Love Life as Hannah
2007Love Comes Lately as Ethel
2007Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women as Self
2006O Jerusalem as Golda Meir
2006Ugly Betty as Mrs. Varner
2006Lady in the Water as Mrs. Bubchik
2006Just My Luck as Madame Z
2005Alchemy as Senior Editor
2005Life on the Ledge as Mother
2004The Tollbooth as Ruthie Cohen
2003Queens Supreme
2002The End of the Bar as Mrs. Garner
2002Kissing Jessica Stein as Judy Stein
2002New World Order as Sponge-Brush Woman
2001Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Danielle Melnick
2001Crossing Jordan as Elaine Brandau
2001The Believer as Woman in Shul at Rosh Hashannah
2001Friends and Family as Alma Jennings
2000Happy Accidents as Lillian Weaver
1999The Corruptor as U.S. Attorney Margaret Wheeler
1999A Walk on the Moon as Lillian Kantrowitz
1998A Will of their Own as Mrs. Rubenstein
1998Montana as Greta
1997Hudson River Blues
1997The View as Self
1995Aaron’s Magic Village as Zlateh the Goat / Aunt Sarah / The Matchmaker (voice)
1995Love and Betrayal: The Mia Farrow Story as Eleanor
1995Comfortably Numb as Victoria Stevens
1992Citizen Cohn as Iva Schlesinger
1991A Day in October as Emma Kublitz
1990Law & Order as Danielle Melnick
1990All That Glitters as Mrs. Carr
1988The Blue Iguana as Detective Vera
1987Mariah as Deena Hertz
1986L.A. Law as Lynn Palmer
1985Silver Bullet as Older Jane (voice)
1985The Equalizer as Samantha Page
1985Brewster's Millions as Marilyn
1984Airwolf as Sarah Lebow
1983Daniel as Linda Mindish
1983Reading Rainbow as Self - Narrator (voice)
1981Cheaper to Keep Her as K. D. Locke
1980The Idolmaker as Brenda Roberts
1980The Women's Room as Iso
1979Beggarman, Thief as Monika Wolner
1979The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal as Florence
1978Terror Out of the Sky as Jeannie Devereux
1978A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court as Sandy
1978Nunzio as Michelle
1978Holocaust as Helena Slomová
1977The Love Boat as Susan Ridley
1977World of Darkness as Clara Sanford
1977The Amazing Howard Hughes as Katharine Hepburn
1976Gibbsville
1973Scream, Pretty Peggy as Agnes Thornton
—Start Without Me as Roz
—Dirty Rhetoric as Bea
—We Should Eat as Diane