Dinah Manoff Biography

Dinah Beth Manoff is an American film, TV and stage actress and television director. She became very popularly for her voice work for the film ‘Everybody Rides the Carousal’. Then she went on to act in films like ‘Raid on Entebbe’ as Rachel Sager, ‘Ordinary People’ as Karen Aldrich etc. She debuted on television in the series ‘Welcome Back, Kotter’ as Chairmaine and worked in 16 episodes of the 1979 television series ‘Soap’ as Elena Leftkowich. Dinah’s first feature film was the 1978 released ‘Grease’ where she acted as Marty. She won a Tony award for her performance in the film titled ‘I Ought to Be in Pictures’ produced by Broadway productions. She has acted in several movies like ‘Ordinary People’ as Karen Aldrich, ‘Backfire’ as Jil Tyson and ‘Child’s Play’ as Maggie Peterson and ‘Staying Together’ as Lois Cook.