Rita Karin
About
Known forActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1919-10-24
Place of BirthWilno, Wilenskie, Poland [now Vilnius, Lithuania]
Death1993-09-10
BiographyShe 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.
