Laraine Newman

Comedian

Laraine Newman was born in Los Angeles, California, United States on March 2nd, 1952 and is the Comedian. At the age of 72, Laraine Newman biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
March 2, 1952
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, United States
Age
72 years old
Zodiac Sign
Pisces
Networth
$5 Million
Profession
Film Actor, Stage Actor, Television Actor, Voice Actor, Writer
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Chad Einbinder, ​ ​(m. 1991; div. 2016)​
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2, including Hannah Einbinder
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Laraine Newman Life

Laraine Newman (born March 2, 1952) is an American comedian, actress, voice actress, and writer who was part of the original cast of NBC's Saturday Night Live, and played the villain Lawanda Dumore in the 1991 film Problem Child 2.

Personal life

Newman was born on March 2, 1952, in Los Angeles, California, the granddaughter of a cattle rancher from Arizona. Her family is Jewish. She is the youngest of four children and has a twin brother Paul. Her sister, Tracy Newman, is an Emmy Award-winning television writer. Newman attended Beverly Hills High School in Beverly Hills, California and graduated from there in 1970. Newman married actor-writer-director Chad Einbinder in 1991; their marriage ended after 25 years. Newman and Einbinder have two children, Spike and actor and comedian Hannah.

The song "Never Let Her Slip Away," written and recorded by Andrew Gold, was about Newman. The two were a couple at the time. The song hit #5 on the UK charts in 1978.

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Laraine Newman Career

Early life and career

Newman took her first improvisational theatre classes when she was 15. At the age of 17, Newman lost her virginity to American singer and guitarist Johnny Winter. After finishing high school she auditioned for four acting schools in England including the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and Bristol Old Vic. She was not accepted after the second round of auditions for all four schools, so she went to Paris to study mime with Marcel Marceau for a year.

By the age of 19, Newman returned to the United States, and moved to Los Angeles, where she did a brief stint at a secretarial school. Committed to continue performing, she was a founding member of the pioneering comedy improvisational group The Groundlings. At the same time, Newman was working for a booking agent who worked with rock bands, typing up contracts.

Newman cites Eve Arden, Madeline Kahn and Richard Pryor as her first major influences, saying "They led me into my life of comedy, they led me into understanding 'The Art of Play.'"

Later life and career

Newman's post-SNL film career has been in both leading and supporting roles, as well as a voice artist in television and features.

In her memoirs Newman recounted dating Dan Aykroyd, Warren Zevon, Peter Cook, Phil Hartman, and P.J. O'Rourke. She was also in a relationship with Mark Mothersbaugh of the new wave band Devo years after the band did a guest spot in the fourth season of SNL. Newman and Mothersbaugh were a couple for years, during which time Newman played Donut Rooter in the band's We're All Devo VHS release (1984). In her memoirs, Newman claimed she was celibate for four years after the end of her relationship with Mothersbaugh.

Prior to leaving SNL, Newman appeared in American Hot Wax (1978) and did a cameo in Mr. Mike's Mondo Video (1979).

Newman continued to appear in film and television productions during the 1980s. Among these were Wholly Moses, Voltar The Invincible and Invaders from Mars. She also had a small role in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories (1980). In 1986 she starred in the syndicated B-movie comedy series, The Canned Film Festival, playing the lead role as Laraine the usherette. Additionally, she made appearances on such programs as Laverne & Shirley, E.T. and Friends (1983), in which she reprised her role as Connie Conehead, Steve Martin's Best Show Ever (1981), and Amazing Stories. Newman auditioned for the role of Masha in Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy (1983); the role was played in the film by Sandra Bernhard. By her own admission, Newman's career during this period languished as she struggled with depression and chemical dependency issues. Newman became sober in 1987, after 21 years of drug use.

Newman celebrated her 36th birthday in March 1988 with a party in Los Angeles that was the last time Gilda Radner was with her original SNL co-stars. According to Bill Murray, when he heard Radner was about to leave the party, he and Dan Aykroyd carried her around the Los Angeles house where the party was held so that she could say goodbye to everyone. Radner died on May 20, 1989.

Newman played the antagonist in Problem Child 2 (1991) and also appeared in 1993's Coneheads (in which Michelle Burke played Connie Conehead, the character Newman originated on SNL, while Newman appeared in a minor role as Connie's aunt Laarta). Newman further appeared in episodes of Friends, 3rd Rock from the Sun, 7th Heaven, and in the 1994 film The Flintstones. Additionally, during this time, she started to focus on voice acting, working on The Tick, Histeria!, CatDog, and Rugrats (in "All Growed Up", an episode which would form the basis of the spinoff All Grown Up!, for which she also provided voice work).

In the 2000s Newman lent her voice to many characters in animated movies and television productions. Among these were Danny Phantom, As Told By Ginger, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Metalocalypse and Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. She further provided voice work for WALL-E, Battle for Terra, Ponyo, Jungle Junction, Cars, Up!, Finding Nemo, Monsters, Inc., Barnyard, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Happily N'Ever After, and Horton Hears a Who!.

Newman also appeared in episodes of Entourage, Brothers & Sisters, According to Jim, and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

She continues to provide her voice for movies like Dr. Seuss' The Lorax and Wreck-It Ralph. Newman made guest voice appearances in SpongeBob SquarePants (as Plankton's grandmother), Doc McStuffins, and Harvey Street Kids . She also voices Queen Jipjorrulac, the mother of Mark Chang, in The Fairly OddParents.

She voiced the Wicked Witch of the West in Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz, an animated direct-to-DVD film set during the events of the original 1939 film.

On July 9, 2014, Newman appeared on Ken Reid's TV Guidance Counselor podcast.

In 2017, Newman (along with the other original cast members of Saturday Night Live) was inducted into the Television Academy's 24th Hall of Fame ceremony.

Newman also works as a writer and editor. She is a contributing editor for the online magazine One For The Table, and she is an occasional contributor to the Huffington Post. She has contributed articles for the Los Angeles Times, The Believer, and McSweeney's. She wrote the foreword to the book version of the UCB Production Worst Laid Plans. In March 2021, she published her audio memoir May You Live in Interesting Times on Audible.

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In a recent film about the launch of Saturday Night Live in the 1970s, success actor Nicholas Braun will appear as Jim Henson, while Gabriel LaBelle will play Lorne Michaels

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 12, 2024
People were made to laugh on Saturday Night Live, but a new film would focus on the drama that inspired the late night staple in the 1970s. Jason Reitman, 46, who has already cast Ella Hunt to play the late Gilda Radner, Rebecca Fairn as Laraine Newman, and Kim Matula as Jane Curtin, has now decided which actors will play the male characters in The Not-Ready-for-Primetime Players. Gabriel LaBelle, 21, best known for his role as Sammy, a budding filmmaker in Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmen, will play creator and producer Lorne Michaels.

In a recent Jason Reitman-directed film SNL 1975, Dickinson actress Ella Hunt will play comedy legend Gilda Radner, as Emily Fairn and Kim Matula take on Laraine Newman and Jane Curtin roles

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 27, 2024
In the forthcoming film SNL 1975, Dickinson actress Ella Hunt will play comedy legend Gilda Radner. Hunt, 25, will appear alongside Emily Fairn and Kim Matula, 35, as the long-running sketch comedy show's former cast members, Radner, Laraine Newman, and Jane Curtin, respectively, according to Deadline.

Richard Belzer, a 78-year-old law student at SVU and Homicide Life on the Streets, has died at the age of 78

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 19, 2023
Richard Belzer, a special Victims Unit member, died at the age of 78. The actor began as a comedian but became well-known as Detective John Munch, first on Homicide Life on the Streets and then on SVU. He also appeared on the original Law and Order, as well as the Judicacie by Jury. Belzer has appeared on 11 different shows in total over the course of 22 years. Richard Belzer's death was first revealed by Saturday Night Live alumna Newman, who tweeted: 'I'm so sad to learn of his's passing.' I loved this guy so much. 'When I first arrived in New York to do SNL, he was one of my first friends,' she said. We used to go out for lobster at Sheepshead Bay every week.'