Rita Karin

Actor

Born: October 24, 1919
Died: September 10, 1993 (age 73)
From: Wilno, Wilenskie, Poland [now Vilnius, Lithuania]

She was a Polish-born American actress best known for her role as Jackie Mason's mother on the 1989 TV series Chicken Soup. Also appeared at the beginning of Sophie's Choice as Yetta, Sophie's (Meryl Streep) landlady. Her voice can be heard singing children's songs from the camps in the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.

Filmography (12)

The Pickle (1993)
Grandmother
He Said, She Said (1991)
Mrs. Spepk
Age Isn't Everything (1991)
Flo
Enemies, a Love Story (1989)
Mrs. Schreier
Kojak: The Belarus File (1985)
Sophie's Choice (1982)
Yetta
Starstruck (1981)
Mrs. Reuben
The Big Fix (1978)
Aunt Sonya
Matilda (1978)
Spectator
Nicky's World
Nicky's World (1974)
Mrs. Mylonas
Up the Sandbox (1972)
Mrs. Grossbard (uncredited)
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971)
Mrs. Goldfarb