Laraine Newman (born March 2, 1952) is an American actress, comedian, and writer. Newman was part of the original cast of NBC's sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from its inception in 1975 until her departure in 1980.[1]
Newman took an interest at improv at Beverly Hills High School. After graduating in 1970, she studied mime with Marcel Marceau for a year in Paris. She then moved to Los Angeles and became a founding member of comedy improvisational group The Groundlings. She was first hired by Lorne Michaels for a Lily Tomlin TV special in 1974. The next year Newman became one of the original cast members of Saturday Night Live, working there from 1975 to 1980 and creating characters like Connie Conehead, proto-Valley girl Sherry, and Christie Christina. In 2017, she and the rest of the original cast members of SNL were among the honorees of the Television Academy Hall of Fame.
She has appeared in movies like Stardust Memories, Problem Child 2, Coneheads, and The Flintstones. She is also a voice actor with appearances in both TV shows and movies, including many Pixar films like Finding Nemo, WALL-E, Up, and Inside Out. In 2021 her memoir May You Live in Interesting Times was released on Audible.
She is the younger sister of writer and musician Tracy Newman and the mother of actress and comedian Hannah Einbinder, and actor Spike Einbinder.
^Hal Erickson (2012). "Laraine Newman - About This Person - Movies & TV - NYTimes.com". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on July 22, 2012.
LaraineNewman (born March 2, 1952) is an American actress, comedian, and writer. Newman was part of the original cast of NBC's sketch comedy series Saturday...
the improvisational theater troupe The Groundlings (as is her sister, LaraineNewman). She was co-creator and executive producer of the sitcom According...
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Einbinder is the daughter of original Saturday Night Live cast member LaraineNewman and Chad Einbinder. Her family is Jewish and she grew up in Los Angeles...
praised both the play and Radner's performance. Radner's SNL castmate LaraineNewman said in a 2018 interview that she believed Radner's movie career had...
actor, photographer, and graphic designer. She is also the niece of LaraineNewman, American comedian, actress, voice artist, writer, and original SNL...
by Dan Aykroyd as father Beldar, Jane Curtin as mother Prymaat, and LaraineNewman as daughter Connie. In 1993, they appeared in a feature film with Michelle...
Angeles to work on The Lily Tomlin Show for ABC, where they also met LaraineNewman, whom they invited, along with Aykroyd and Radner, to join the Not Ready...
Weekend Update, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, and Groundlings alumna LaraineNewman. The original head writer was Michael O'Donoghue, a writer at National...
inside barrels. He is also the mayor of San Lorenzo. Pajuna (voiced by LaraineNewman) is a Highland cow who is the owner of the local cantina. Vina (voiced...
overnight while her brother was getting recovered. Aurora (voiced by LaraineNewman) is a telescope belonging to Henry, who speaks in 60's hippie lingo...
'n' roll". The film starred Tim McIntire, Fran Drescher, Jay Leno, LaraineNewman, Jeff Altman, and Moosie Drier. It also featured musical performances...
is the Oblongs' condescending and uninterested doctor. Mrs. Hubbard (LaraineNewman) is the town's Bible-thumping, gun-toting old woman who is appointed...
Ritter as Benjamin "Ben" Healy, Jr. Michael Oliver as Junior Healy LaraineNewman as LaWanda Dumore Amy Yasbeck as Annie Young Gilbert Gottfried as Igor...
Stashwick as Zeke / The Cowardly Lion Frances Conroy as Aunt Em, Glinda LaraineNewman as Miss Almira Gulch / The Wicked Witch of the West Stephen Root as...
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Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, LaraineNewman, Michael O'Donoghue, Gilda Radner, and George Coe. Belushi, Chase, Radner...
American comedy horror film starring Mickey Rooney, Tobey Maguire, LaraineNewman, Cliff De Young, produced by Roger Corman and directed by Robert Gordon...
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