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Zohra Lampert

 
Actor: Zohra Lampert
  • Born: May 13, 1937 in New York City, New York
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '60s-'90s
  • Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
  • Career Highlights: Splendor in the Grass, Let's Scare Jessica to Death, Posse from Hell
  • First Major Screen Credit: Pay or Die (1960)

Biography

Born in New York City, Zohra Lampert attended the University of Chicago, began her acting career in regional stock, then returned to Manhattan to make her 1956 Broadway bow in a revival of Major Barbara. Zohra's pneumatic but soothing voice is equally adaptable to comedy and tragedy, while her soft semitic facial features have enabled her to portray women of many nationalities. She made her film debut in Pay or Die (1960), playing a hysterical Italian-American victim of Mafia persecution. While she prefers the theatre to movies and televsion, Zohra has accepted several supporting parts in films like Splendor in the Grass (1961), Bye Bye Braverman (1968) and John Cassavetes' Opening Night (1978), and his been a regular on three TV series: Where the Heart is (1969), Girl With Something Extra (1973), Doctors Hospital (1975) Zohra Lampert's portrayal of a villainous gypsy seer on a 1975 Kojak television episode won her an Emmy Award. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Zohra Lampert
Born 13 May 1937 (1937-05-13) (age 72)
New York City, New York,
United States

Zohra Lampert (born 13 May 1937) is an American actress, who has had roles on film, television and stage. She may be best remembered for her role as the title character in the 1971 cult horror film Let's Scare Jessica to Death, as well as starring alongside Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty in the 1961 romance film Splendor in the Grass.

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Biography

Personal life

Lampert was born in New York City, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants Rachil Eriss, a draper and hatmaker, and Morris Lampert, an architect and ironworker.[1] Lampert attended New York's High School of Music and Art, and then the University of Chicago. She was briefly married to actor Bill Alton from 1957 to 1958.

Career

After initially working for several years on stage, eventually reaching Broadway in a Tony-nominated performance in 1961s Look We've Come Through, she scored with a pair of small but noteworthy performances in the films Pay or Die and Splendor in the Grass.

Throughout most of the 1960s and 1970s she kept busy with a series of mostly supporting roles in film and television, winning an Emmy for her performance as a sinister gypsy on an episode of Kojak (1975), and she also costarred with Gena Rowlands in John Cassavetes' Opening Night (1978).

She was a regular in the sitcom The Girl With Something Extra and the medical drama Doctors' Hospital. During the early 1970s, she created the role of Ellie Jardin on the CBS soap, Where the Heart Is, until her character was killed off in 1972.

During the 1980s and 1990s, she worked less, though she could be seen in roles as diverse as The Exorcist III (playing late actor George C. Scott's wife), and the offbeat 1999 film, The Eden Myth, her last feature film role.

Filmography

Television

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The Halls of Terror: Kojak (TV Episode) (1978 TV Episode)
Posse from Hell (1961 Western Film)
Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971 Horror Film)

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