Zohra Lampert

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Zohra Lampert
Born 13 May 1937 (1937-05-13) (age 71)
New York City, New York, USA

Zohra Lampert (born May 13, 1937) is an American character actress, perhaps best remembered for her role in the 1971 cult horror film Let's Scare Jessica to Death.

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[edit] Personal life

Lampert was born in New York, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants Rachil (née 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.

[edit] 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 in a 1975 episode of Kojak, and she also costarred with Gena Rowlands in the 1978 John Cassavetes film, Opening Night. She was a regular in the sitcom The Girl With Something Extra and the medical drama Doctors' Hospital.

During the 1980s and 1990s, she worked much 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.

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