Rhea Perlman

At 76 years old, Rhea Perlman has this physical status:

Rhea Jo Perlman (born March 31, 1948) is an American actress and writer best known for her role as head-waitress Carla Tortelli on the comedy Cheers from 1982 to 1993.

She was nominated for ten Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Television Series over the course of 11 seasons, winning four times, and six times for Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series.

Early life and family

Perlman was born in Coney Island, Brooklyn, on March 31, 1948, to Philip Perlman, a Polish immigrant who was a director at a doll parts factory and Adele, a bookkeeper. She grew up in Bensonhurst, Russia, in a Jewish family with additional roots. She has a sister, Heide, who is a television writer, story editor, and producer who worked on Cheers, Frasier, and The Tracey Ullman Show. Her parents immigrated to Los Angeles in the mid-1980s, and her father became an extra on Cheers. His character was first identified by his real name, Phil, and he only managed to get a few lines over the years as he appeared in more than 30 episodes. He starred in several films and television shows, including Throw Momma from the Train, Hoffa, and Frasier, in his second career as a character actor.

She studied drama at Hunter College in New York, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1968.

Personal life

Perlman saw Danny DeVito on January 17, 1971, while she was heading to see a friend in the single performance of the play The Shrinking Bride, which also featured DeVito. Two weeks after meeting and marrying on January 28, 1982, they moved in together. Lucy Chet DeVito, Grace Fan DeVito, and Jacob Daniel DeVito are among the three children. Perlman, a Jew and DeVito, a Catholic couple, raised their children with Catholicism but not give them any religious identity. "We do all the holidays to keep the traditions and the culture alive," Perlman told the Los Angeles Times in 1998, "I don't have a positive opinion about any particular organized faith, and I don't think it's right to force one on my children." I'm pretending I'm bringing them up to be kind people, and that's what it's about."

The family lived in Beverly Hills, California, and they owned a holiday home in Interlaken, New Jersey. Perlman and DeVito have appeared together many times in the television show Taxi and the film Matilda, among other things.

In October 2012, Perlman and DeVito were divorced. However, in March 2013, it had been announced that they had reconciled. The couple split in March 2017 on amicable terms for the second time. Although the two women no longer live together, Perlman said she has no intention of divorcing Devincito. Perlman told interviewer Andy Cohen that after their separation, she and DeVito have become closer friends than they were in their final years as a couple.

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Career

Perlman began her acting career with a small part as an attendant in the off-Broadway play Dracula Sabbat, which ran from September 1970 to June 1971. She appeared in the movie Hot Dogs for Gauguin in 1972. She appeared in Up – An Uppity Revue's production, alongside her future husband Danny DeVito.

One of her first appearances on TV show Taxi as Zena was a repeating role played by DeVito.

She appeared in a small play portraying a much more realistic character. Glen and Les Charles were involved in the production, which culminated in her appearance as wisecracking barmaid Carla Tortelli on their sitcom Cheers in 1982. In its first season, the show struggled with ratings, but by the time it ended in 1993, it was one of the most widely respected and lucrative shows of all time, winning 20 Emmy awards out of a total of 95 nominations.

In 1984, 1985, 1986, and 1989, Perlman received the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy four times: in 1984, 1985, 1986, 1989, and 1989. She was nominated for an Emmy every year, but 1992, she became the Cheers queen to have the most wins and nominations during her 11 years on Cheers. She was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress six times, more than any other person in that category. Carla Tortelli was named as one of the top TV characters of all time in 2011.

Perlman appeared in "The Wedding Ring," a Steven Spielberg tale about "The Wedding Ring," which also starred DeVito as her character's husband.

Perlman appeared in several TV shows and motion pictures in the 1990s. In 1992, she appeared in the made-for-TV film To Grandmother's House We Go opposite Ashley Olsen and Mary-Kate Olsen; the couple abducted the Olsen Twins' characters in the hopes of bringing in money before Christmas. The dramas A Place to Be Loved and In Spite of Love were among her television films in which she appeared.

There Goes The Neighborhood (1992), Canadian Bacon (1995), Carpool (1996), Sunset Park (1996), and Matilda (1996) were among Perlman's motion picture appearances. She appeared in the film 10 Items Or Less (2006) and later starred in the 2007 independent film Love Comes Lately.

Perlman performed 9-Eye in The Timekeeper, a Circle-Vision exhibition held at the Magic Kingdom in Tomorrowland in 1994. She appeared in the 1996 sitcom Pearl as the title character and was also featured on the 2001 TV drama Kate Brasher. She was one of her notable guest appearances on Becker's fourth-season premiere, which starred Cheers co-star Ted Danson.

Perlman appeared in a 2000 television film How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale in which she impersonated Jacqueline Kennedy. In the 2000 film Secret Cutting, she also portrayed Dr. Parella, a therapist who lives in the United States, which follows the life of a teenage girl named Dawn who self-injures. In 2007, Perlman appeared as Bertha in the West End of London's comedy Boeing Boeing. Patricia Benji appeared in The Christmas Choir, a Hallmark Channel original film, in 2008, and appeared in Beethoven's Big Break in 2008. On the television show Hung for Home Box Office Networks in 2009, she appeared as Tanya's mother. In one episode of Wilfred, Perlman appeared as Mittens for the first time.

Perlman and her daughter Lucy DeVito appeared in Love, Loss, and What I Wore, a Broadway play adapted by Nora and Delia Ephron, at the Westside Theatre in 2009.

Annette Castellano, Danny's mother, appeared on The Mindy Project from 2014 to 2017.

Perlman is the author of the illustrated children's book series Otto Undercover, and his six books to date (as of May 2012) are Born to Drive, Canyon Catastrophe, Water Balloon Doom, Toxic Taffy Takeover, The Brink of Exile, and Brain Freeze.

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