Born: January 25, 1958

Actress Dinah Manoff is the daughter of actress/director Lee_Grant and playwright Arnold_Manoff. A graduate of California School of the Arts, Dinah made her first acting appearance in a PBS special. She won a Tony award as the neurotic daughter of an irresponsible movie screenwriter in Neil_Simon's I Ought to Be in Pictures; she re-created this role in the 1982 film version, acting opposite Walter_Matthau and her mother Lee_Grant. On television, Manoff played Elaine Lefkowitz on the serial satire Soap (1978-79), securing a niche in TV history as the first sitcom regular to be "murdered" on-camera. Dinah Manoff later co-starred as Carol Weston opposite fellow Soap alumnus Richard_Mulligan on the weekly comedy Empty Nest (1988-1993). Hal Erickson, Rovi

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