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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1942-09-29 (82 years old)

Place of Birth

Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA

Madeline Kahn

Biography:

Madeline Gail Kahn (née Wolfson; September 29, 1942 – December 3, 1999) was an American actress, comedian and singer, known for comedic roles in films directed by Peter Bogdanovich and Mel Brooks, including What's Up, Doc? (1972), Young Frankenstein (1974), High Anxiety (1977), History of the World, Part I (1981), and her Academy Award–nominated roles in Paper Moon (1973) and Blazing Saddles (1974).

Kahn made her Broadway debut in Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1968, and received Tony Award nominations for the play In the Boom Boom Room in 1974 and for the original production of the musical On the Twentieth Century in 1978. She starred as Madeline Wayne on the short-lived sitcom Oh Madeline (1983–84) and won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1987 for an ABC Afterschool Special. She received a third Tony Award nomination for the revival of the play Born Yesterday in 1989, before winning the 1993 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the comedy The Sisters Rosensweig. Her other film appearances included The Cheap Detective (1978), City Heat (1984), Clue (1985), and Nixon (1995).

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Known For

Acting

2025

2022

Who Done It: The Clue Documentary as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2020

2018

Mel Brooks: Unwrapped as Self (archive footage)

2014

2013

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise as Self (archive footage)

2010

Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days as Self (uncredited) (archive footage)

2009

2007

The Pixar Story as Gypsy (voice) (archive footage)

2006

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays as Gorgeous Teitelbaum (segment "The Sisters Rosensweig")
Legends as Elizabeth (archive footage) (uncredited)

2005

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Dan Aykroyd as Pat Nixon (archive footage)

2001

Back in the Saddle as Self (archive footage)

1999

1998

A Bug's Life as Gypsy Moth (voice)

1996

London Suite as Sharon Semple
Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein as Elizabeth (archive footage)
Cosby as Pauline Fox
The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest

1995

Nixon as Martha Mitchell
New York News as Nan Chase

1994

Mixed Nuts as Blanche Munchnik
The World of Jim Henson as Self (archive footage)

1993

1992

1991

1990

1988

1987

Sesame Street: Sing Along as Special Appearance
Mr. President as Lois Gullickson

1986

An American Tail as Gussie Mausheimer (voice)
Wanted: The Perfect Guy as Ellie Coleman
My Little Pony: The Movie as Draggle (voice)

1985

Clue as Mrs. White
The Comedy Factory as Violet Kingsley

1984

City Heat as Caroline Howley

1983

Yellowbeard as Betty
Group Madness as Self / Mrs. Yellowbeard
Oh Madeline as Madeline Wayne
Reading Rainbow as Herself - Narrator (voice)

1982

Slapstick of Another Kind as Eliza Swain / Lutetia Swain
Scrambled Feet as Madeline

1981

1980

Wholly Moses as The Witch
First Family as Mrs. Link
Simon as Dr. Cynthia Mallory
Happy Birthday, Gemini as Bunny Weinberger

1979

The Muppet Movie as El Sleezo Patron

1978

The Cheap Detective as Mrs. Montenegro

1977

High Anxiety as Victoria Brisbane

1976

The Muppet Show as Self - Special Guest Star

1975

At Long Last Love as Kitty O'Kelly (Kathy Krumm)
Saturday Night Live as Self - Host

1974

Young Frankenstein as Elizabeth
Blazing Saddles as Lili Von Shtupp

1973

1972

What's Up, Doc? as Eunice Burns
Harvey as Nurse Ruth Kelly
ABC Afterschool Special as Ellie Coleman

1971

1968

The Dove as Sigfried
The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest

1967

1962

1956

Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
Tony Awards as Self - Performer/Winner
Tony Awards as Self - Presenter

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Nurse Ruth Kelly

1944

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee