Rita Karin

Nacimiento

24 de octubre de 1919 · Wilno, Wilenskie, Poland [now Vilnius, Lithuania]

Fallecimiento

10 de septiembre de 1993

• Actriz

She was a Polish-born American actress best known for her role as Jackie Mason's mother on the 1989 TV series Chicken Soup. Also appeared at the beginning of Sophie's Choice as Yetta, Sophie's (Meryl Streep) landlady. Her voice can be heard singing children's songs from the camps in the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.