Tovah Feldshuh

Tovah Feldshuh is an American actress, singer and playwright. She appeared in the title role in Yentl both off-Broadway at the Chelsea Theater Center and later on Broadway. Other Broadway credits include Saravà, Lend Me a Tenor, and Golda's Balcony. She made her Broadway debut in the short-lived 1973 musical Cyrano starring Christopher Plummer. She appeared in the title role in Yentl both off-Broadway at the Chelsea Theater Center and later on Broadway. Other Broadway credits include Saravà, Lend Me a Tenor, and Golda's Balcony. The last, William Gibson's work about the late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, set a record as the longest-running one-woman play in Broadway history on January 2, 2005.

Feldshuh made her cabaret debut at the Algonquin Hotel Oak Room with her act, Tovah: Crossovah! From Broadway to Cabaret, which was followed by Tovah: Out of Her Mind!, which she took on the road to Philadelphia, Houston, Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Hong Kong, and Sydney. The West End production sold out an eight-week run at the Duke of York's Theatre. The Boston Globe selected her as "Best Cabaret Artist of 2000". She penned the one-woman play Tallulah Hallelujah!, about actress Tallulah Bankhead, in which she also starred.

In 1973, Feldshuh appeared on television in a supporting role in Scream, Pretty Peggy and later portrayed Katharine Hepburn in The Amazing Howard Hughes, but she came to international prominence as Helena Slomova in the 1978 mini-series Holocaust. She returned to Broadway in the Dan Gordon play, Irena's Vow in March 2009. In 2009, Feldshuh recorded the song "Bein Nahar Prat" for the organization Pioneers For A Cure, with the proceeds benefiting Ellen's Run.