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Deft comedienne who, two years out of college, began her professional career playing sardonic, chubby Brenda Morgenstern, younger sister to Valerie Harper's title character on the long-running TV sitcom "Rhoda" (1974-78). With her wry, sarcastic delivery, her ethnic, raspy and slightly nasal whine and her self-deprecating humor, Kavner has carved a niche as a likable second banana, playing scrappy underdogs, working women and supportive wives in such films as "Bad Medicine" (1985), "Surrender" (1987) and "Awakenings" (1990), TV-movies like "No Other Love" (1979) and "Revenge of the Stepford Wives" (1980), and, of course, the animated sitcom, "The Simpsons" (1990- ), as the voice of Marge Simpson....
Full Bio , Awards & Milestones

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Filmography

The Simpsons Movie - ( Voice of Marge Simpson / 2007 / Released / )
Click - ( Trudy Newman / 2006 / Released / )
The Lion King 1 1/2 - ( Voice of Timon's Mother / 2004 / Released / )
Judy Berlin - ( Marie / 2000 / Released / )
The Story of a Bad Boy - ( Elaine / 1999 / Released / )
Dr. Dolittle - ( of Female Pigeon / 1998 / Released / )
Deconstructing Harry - ( Grace / 1997 / Released / )
Forget Paris - ( Lucy / 1995 / Released / )
I'll Do Anything - ( Nan Mulhanney / 1994 / Released / )
Shadows and Fog - ( Alma / 1992 / Released / )
This Is My Life - ( Dottie Ingels / 1992 / Released / )
Alice (Paramount) - ( Decorator / 1990 / Released / Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution )
Awakenings - ( Eleanor Costello / 1990 / Released / Finnkino )
New York Stories - ( Treva / 1989 / Released / Village Roadshow Pictures Worldwide )
Radio Days - ( Mother / 1987 / Released / )
Surrender - ( Ronnie / 1987 / Released / )
Hannah and Her Sisters - ( Gail / 1986 / Released / )
Bad Medicine - ( Cookie Katz / 1985 / Released / )
National Lampoon Goes to the Movies - ( Mrs Falcone / 1982 / Released / )

TV Credits
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) 13th Annual Hall of Fame ( 1998 / Released ): Actor
Neil Simon's Jake's Women ( 1996 / Released ): Actor
The Best of Tracey Takes On... ( 1996 / Released ): Actor
Tracey Takes On... ( 1996 / Released ): Actor
Don't Drink the Water ( 1994 / Released ): Actor
Make Believe: The Making of "I'll Do Anything" ( 1994 / Released ): Actor
The Ice Capades 50th Anniversary Special ( 1990 / Released ): Voice
The Simpsons ( 1990 / Released ): Voice
The Burns and the Bees ( 2008 )
TV Episode Marge Simpson

Mypods and Boomsticks ( 2008 )
TV Episode Marge Simpson

Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words ( 2008 )
TV Episode Marge Simpson

Dangerous Curves ( 2008 )
TV Episode Marge Simpson

Treehouse of Horror XIX ( 2008 )
TV Episode Marge Simpson

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To the Moon, Alice ( 1990 / Released ): Actor
Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire ( 1989 / Released ): Voice
The 41st Annual Emmy Awards ( 1989 / Released ): Actor
Tracey Ullman Backstage ( 1988 / Released ): Actor
The Tracey Ullman Show ( 1987 / Released ): Actor
A Fine Romance ( 1983 / Released ): Actor
Revenge of the Stepford Wives ( 1980 / Released ): Actor
No Other Love ( 1979 / Released ): Actor
Taxi ( 1978 / Released ): Actor
Katherine ( 1975 / Released ): Actor
The Girl Who Couldn't Lose ( 1975 / Released ): Actor
Rhoda ( 1974 / Released ): Actor
Birdland ( Released ): Actor

Full Biography (Back to top)


Deft comedienne who, two years out of college, began her professional career playing sardonic, chubby Brenda Morgenstern, younger sister to Valerie Harper's title character on the long-running TV sitcom "Rhoda" (1974-78). With her wry, sarcastic delivery, her ethnic, raspy and slightly nasal whine and her self-deprecating humor, Kavner has carved a niche as a likable second banana, playing scrappy underdogs, working women and supportive wives in such films as "Bad Medicine" (1985), "Surrender" (1987) and "Awakenings" (1990), TV-movies like "No Other Love" (1979) and "Revenge of the Stepford Wives" (1980), and, of course, the animated sitcom, "The Simpsons" (1990- ), as the voice of Marge Simpson. A Woody Allen regular, she has acted in five of his films including "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986) and "Shadows and Fog" (1992) and is reputedly the only actress to play both his mother (in "Radio Days" 1987) and his girlfriend (in "New York Stories" 1989).

Kavner got to display her gifts for mimicry and improvisation as a cast regular on "The Tracey Ullman Show" creating such diverse characters as a Soviet circus performer and a bisexual talent agent before she was cast in her first starring role as a funny cosmetics saleswoman and mother turned successful professional comedienne in Nora Ephron's warmhearted domestic comedy "This Is My Life" (1992). Kavner also did well in another prominent role as an extremely, if inadvertently, honest box-office analyst who becomes involved with a film producer (Albert Brooks) in "I'll Do Anything" (1994).


Profession(s):
Actor, typist
Sometimes Credited As:
Julie Deborah Kavner
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Family
father:David Kavner
mother:Rose Kavner (counselor at UCLA)
sister:Nora Bonnie Kavner (born on December 19, 1948; vice president of legal affairs for Columbia Pictures)
Companion(s)
David Davis , Companion , ```..together since 1974; met while working together on "Rhoda"; born c. 1941; co-creator of "The Bob Newhart Show"


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Education
Beverly Hills High School Beverly Hills, California
San Diego State University San Diego, California theater
Awards (Back to top)

Emmy Outstanding Voiceover Performance "The Simpsons" 1991 - 1992
Emmy Outstanding Continuing Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series "Rhoda" 1977 - 1978

Milestones (Back to top)

2007 Reprised role of Marge Simpson for "The Simpsons Movie" an animated feature based on the long running Fox series
2006 Cast opposite Adam Sandler in the comedy "Click" directed by Frank Coraci
1997 Co-starred in Woody Allen's "Deconstructing Harry"
1996 Re-teamed with Tracy Ullman on the HBO series "Tracey Takes On..."
1995 Appeared in the comedy "Forget Paris" with Debra Winger and Billy Crystal
1994 Co-starred in the Woody Allen film "Don't Drink the Water"
1992 Starred in the Nora Ephron comedy drama "This Is My Life"
1990 Provides the voice of Marge Simpson as well as her two sisters Patty and Selma on "The Simpsons" (Fox)
1990 Played a nurse opposite Robin Williams in the film "Awakenings"
1981 Film debut in "National Lampoon Goes to the Movies"
1975 TV debut on ABC Afternoon Playbreak "The Girl Who Couldn't Lose"
1975 TV movie debut in "Katherine" (ABC)
1974 Was performing in an Equity waiver theater production in Los Angeles while working days as a typist at UCLA architecture school when David Davis asked her to read for role of Brenda Morgenstern on new
1974 - 1978 First professional acting work, costarring as Valarie Harper's sister Brenda Morgenstern on TV series, "Rhoda"
Raised in Burbank and Beverly Hills, California
Was a featured regular on "The Tracey Ullman Show" (Fox)

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