Laraine Newman

Laraine Newman (born 2 March 1952, Los Angeles) is an American comedian and actress. She voiced the Wicked Witch of the West in Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz.
== Biography ==
Laraine Newman is a founding member of The Groundlings. After seeing her in The Groundlings, Lorne Michaels cast her in a Lily Tomlin Special and later as an original cast member of Saturday Night Live (1975). She has worked with directors ranging from Woody Allen to Guillermo del Toro.
She has a thriving animation career and has written for the food magazine One for the Table, McSweeney's, The Believer, The Jewish Journal, The Huffington Post and Esquire. She sits on the board of San Francisco's long-running alternative comedy festival Sketchiest and has appeared there since 2012. She appears regularly in Celebrity Autobiography, which won a Drama Desk Award. She has two daughters from her marriage to Chad Einbinder (1992–2015) and lives in her home town of Los Angeles, CA.
== External Links ==
* Laraine Newman at the Internet Movie Database
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Category:Tom and Jerry
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