Janet Margolin

Janet Margolin (July 25, 1943 – December 17, 1993) was an American theater, television and film actress.
== Early life ==
Margolin was born in New York City, the daughter of Jewish parents Benjamin and Annette (née Lief) Margolin. Her father was a Russian-born accountant who founded the Nephrosis Foundation, now the Kidney Foundation of New York.
She attended the High School of Performing Arts. In 1961 at the age of 18, while a prop girl at the New York Shakespeare Festival, Margolin won a pivotal Broadway stage role as Anna in Morris West's Daughter of Silence.[1] The New York Times in reviewing the play listed her among leaders of "a fine cast" and said that "her Anna has a fragile, haunted dewiness."[2]
== Career ==
In 1962, Margolin played her first movie role as the female lead in David and Lisa. She co-starred with Marlon Brando in 1965's Morituri and with Steve McQueen in the western Nevada Smith. She later played Wanda, the love interest of the lead character David Kolowitz, in the movie Enter Laughing (1967).
In Take the Money and Run (1969), she played the love interest of the bumbling thief played by Woody Allen, and in Annie Hall (1977), she played the social-climbing wife of Allen's character.
In 1979, Margolin co-starred with Roy Scheider in director Jonathan Demme's thriller Last Embrace.
Margolin's last film appearance was in Ghostbusters II in 1989, and her last television roles were as a killer in an episode of Murder, She Wrote ("Deadly Misunderstanding") and as a victim in Columbo: Murder in Malibu in 1990.
== Personal life ==
Margolin died of ovarian cancer at the age of 50 on December 17, 1993, in Los Angeles, California. She was cremated and her ashes were placed in an urn garden at Westwood Memorial Park in Los Angeles. She and her husband actor/director Ted Wass had two children, Julian and Matilda.
Margolin frequently and erroneously has been identified as the sister of actor Stuart Margolin and director Arnold Margolin, though she acted alongside Stuart Margolin in the pilot episode of the TV series Lanigan's Rabbi, where they appeared as man and wife. She was close friends with producer/actress Jennifer Salt, who had co-starred with Wass in the 1970s sitcom Soap.[3][4]
== Filmography ==
Film
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes
1962	David and Lisa 	Lisa Brandt 	
1965	The Greatest Story Ever Told	Mary of Bethany	
1965	Bus Riley's Back in Town 	Judy 	
1965	Morituri 	Esther 	Alternative title: Saboteur: Code Name Morituri
1966	The Eavesdropper 	Inés 	Alternative title: El ojo que espía
1966	Nevada Smith 	Neesa 	
1967	Enter Laughing 	Wanda 	
1968	Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell 	Gia Campbell 	
1969	Take the Money and Run 	Louise 	
1973	Your Three Minutes Are Up 	Betty 	
1977	Annie Hall 	Robin 	
1979	Last Embrace 	Ellie Fabian 	
1988	Distant Thunder 	Barbara Lambert	
1989	Ghostbusters II 	The Prosecutor 	
Television
Year 	Title 	Role 	Notes
1961 	The Edge of Night 	Betty Morrissey 	August 17, 1961 episode
1962 	Ben Casey 	Illyana Trivas 	Episode: "Legacy from a Stranger"
1962 	Alcoa Premiere 	Barbara 	Episode: "The Hands of Danofrio"
1963 	East Side/West Side 	Doris Arno 	Episode: "You Can't Beat the System"
1963 	The Defenders 	Dinah Caldwell 	Episode: "Old Lady Ironsides"
1964 	Arrest and Trial 	Helen Kazar 	Episode: "A Circle of Strangers"
1966 	Ten Blocks on the Camino Real 	Esmerelda 	TV movie
1967 	Coronet Blue 	Riva 	Episode: "The Assassins"
1971 	Medical Center 	Terri Spencer 	Episode: "Web of Darkness"
1971 	The Young Lawyers 	Celia Bradbury 	Episode: "The Bradbury War"
1971 	The Interns 	Rose 	Episode: "The Manly Arts"
1971 	The Last Child 	Karen Miller 	TV movie
1971 	Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law 	Jan Herron 	Episode: "The Forest and the Trees"
1972 	The Mod Squad 	Cathy 	Episode: "Eyes of the Beholder"
1972 	Family Flight 	Carol Rutledge 	TV movie
1973–1975	Police Story 	Various 	3 episodes
1974 	Pray for the Wildcats 	Krissie Kincaid 	TV movie
1974 	Planet Earth 	Harper-Smythe 	TV movie
1974 	Lucas Tanner 	Zeta Alexander 	Episode: "By the Numbers"
1975 	The Wide World of Mystery 	Susan Browning 	Episode: "Please Call It Murder"
1975 	Police Woman 	Lisa Tibbett 	Episode: "Pattern for Evil"
1975 	S.W.A.T. 	Emily 	Episode: "Vigilante"
1976 	Joe Forrester 	 	Episode: "The Promised Land"
1976 	Serpico 	Helena 	Episode: "The Serbian Connection"
1976–1977	Lanigan's Rabbi 	Miriam Small 	5 episodes
1977 	Martinelli, Outside Man 	Rosalie 	TV movie
1977 	Murder in Peyton Place 	Betty Anderson Roerick	TV movie
1977 	Sharon: Portrait of a Mistress 	Carol 	TV movie
1977 	Starsky and Hutch 	Dr. Judith Kaufman 	2 episodes
1978 	The Eddie Capra Mysteries 	Daniella 	Episode: "Nightmare at Pendragon Castle"
1979 	The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal	Rose 	TV movie
1980 	The Plutonium Incident 	Judith Longden 	TV movie
1987 	Tonight's the Night 	Chris 	TV movie
1990 	Columbo 	Theresa Goren 	Episode: "Murder In Malibu"
1990 	Murder, She Wrote 	Rita Garrison 	Episode: "Deadly Misunderstanding" (final television appearance)
== Awards and nominations ==
Year	Award 	Category 	Title of work 	Result
1962	Tony Award 	Best Featured Actress in a Play	Daughter of Silence	Nominated
1962	Theatre World Award	 	Daughter of Silence	Won