Janet Margolin (July , â€" December , ) was an American theater,
television and film actress.Margolin was born in New York City, the
daughter of Jewish parents Benjamin and Annette (née Lief) Margolin.
Her father was a Russian-born accountant who founded the Nephrosis
Foundation, now the Kidney Foundation of New York.She attended the
High School of Performing Arts. In at the age of , while a prop girl
at the New York Shakespeare Festival, Margolin won a pivotal Broadway
stage role as Anna in Morris West's Daughter of Silence. The New York
Times in reviewing the play listed her among leaders of "a fine cast"
and said that "her Anna has a fragile, haunted dewiness."In , Margolin
played her first movie role as the female lead in David and Lisa. She
co-starred with Marlon Brando in 's Morituri and with Steve McQueen in
the western Nevada Smith. She later played Wanda, the love interest of
the lead character David Kolowitz, in the movie Enter Laughing ().
television and film actress.Margolin was born in New York City, the
daughter of Jewish parents Benjamin and Annette (née Lief) Margolin.
Her father was a Russian-born accountant who founded the Nephrosis
Foundation, now the Kidney Foundation of New York.She attended the
High School of Performing Arts. In at the age of , while a prop girl
at the New York Shakespeare Festival, Margolin won a pivotal Broadway
stage role as Anna in Morris West's Daughter of Silence. The New York
Times in reviewing the play listed her among leaders of "a fine cast"
and said that "her Anna has a fragile, haunted dewiness."In , Margolin
played her first movie role as the female lead in David and Lisa. She
co-starred with Marlon Brando in 's Morituri and with Steve McQueen in
the western Nevada Smith. She later played Wanda, the love interest of
the lead character David Kolowitz, in the movie Enter Laughing ().
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