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Carolyn Laurie Kane (born June 18, 1952) is an American actress and comedian.

She rose to prominence in the 1970s with films such as Hester Street (for which she received an Academy Award nomination) and Annie Hall. In the early 1980s, she appeared in the television series Taxi as Simka Gravas, the wife of Latka, a character played by Andy Kaufman, and won two Emmy Awards for her work. She played the character Madame Morrible in the musical Wicked, both in regional productions and on Broadway from 2005 to 2014. From 2015 to 2018, she was a main cast member of the original Netflix series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, in which she played Lillian Kaushtupper.

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    Her grandparents were immigrants from Russia.

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    Full name - Carolyn Laurie Kane.

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