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Erica Yohn | |
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Born | Adella Erica Fishman October 1, 1928 The Bronx, New York, U.S. |
Died | January 27, 2019 | (aged 90)
Occupation | Actress |
Known for | An American Tail series |
Spouse(s) | Lars Speyer (1950–19??; divorced) Tom Rosqui (August 18, 1963 – April 12, 1991; his death) |
Children | 3[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]