Dinah Manoff

Dinah Manoff was born in New York City, New York, to screenwriter Arnold Manoff and actress, director, and writer Lee Grant. She began her professional career in the PBS production of "The Great Cherub Knitwear Strike". After subsequent guest appearances on various television series, she received a Tony Award in 1980 for her performance in the Broadway production of Neil Simon's "I Ought To Be In Pictures", a role she reprised in the 1982 film version, starring opposite Walter Matthau. Additional theater credits include Broadway's "Leader of the Pack", "Alfred and Victoria", "Kingdom on Earth" and the Los Angeles stage production of "Love Letters", opposite Patrick Cassidy. On television, Manoff was a regular on the Witt-Thomas-Harris sitcoms Soap (1977) and La maison en folie (1988), and also appeared in the television movies Duo de choc, duo de charme (1989) (aka "Beauty & Denise"), Raid sur Entebbe (1976), Réservé aux dames (1981), La flambeuse (1984), A Matter of Sex (1984), Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac (1984), the miniseries Celebrity (1984) and the NBC movie-of-the-week Babies (1990), with Lindsay Wagner. As well as her starring role in Je me fais du cinéma (1982), Manoff's feature film credits include Grease (1978), Des gens comme les autres (1980), Il était une fois Broadway (1989), Retour de flamme (1987) and Jeu d'enfant (1988).