Erica Yohn

Erica Yohn
Born
Adella Erica Fishman

(1928-10-01)October 1, 1928
DiedJanuary 27, 2019(2019-01-27) (aged 90)
OccupationActress
Known forAn American Tail series
Spouse(s)Lars Speyer (1950–19??; divorced)
Tom Rosqui (August 18, 1963 – April 12, 1991; his death)
Children3[1]

Erica Yohn (October 1, 1928 – January 27, 2019) was an American stage and television actress.

Yohn had many bit parts in film and television, such as Pee-wee's Big Adventure, and television shows, such as Rhoda, ER, Murphy Brown, Double Rush, and Picket Fences. She voiced Mama Mousekewitz in An American Tail and its first two sequels.

From 1971 to 1972, she was a member of the Broadway cast of Lenny, playing various roles, including Sadie Kitchenberg alias Sally Marr, the mother of Lenny Bruce, directed by Tom O'Horgan.[2] She also appeared on Broadway in the original play That Summer - That Fall (1967), an English-language revival of Federico García Lorca's play Yerma (1966–67), the musical Cabaret (1966–69), and revivals of such classics as The Alchemist (1966) and The Country Wife (1965–66).[3]

  1. ^ Obituary, legacy.com. Accessed April 17, 2023.
  2. ^ Erica Yohn, in "Playbill Vault's Today in Theatre History: May 26", Playbill, May 26, 2018.
  3. ^ "Erica Yohn – Broadway Cast & Staff". IBDb.com. Retrieved 1 February 2019.