Madeline Kahn

Acting · Born 1942-09-29 in Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA

Biography

Madeline Gail Kahn (née Wolfson; September 29, 1942 – December 3, 1999) was an American actress, comedian and singer, known for comedic roles in films directed by Peter Bogdanovich and Mel Brooks, including What's Up, Doc? (1972), Young Frankenstein (1974), High Anxiety (1977), History of the World, Part I (1981), and her Academy Award–nominated roles in Paper Moon (1973) and Blazing Saddles (1974). Kahn made her Broadway debut in Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1968, and received Tony Award nominations for the play In the Boom Boom Room in 1974 and for the original production of the musical On the Twentieth Century in 1978. She starred as Madeline Wayne on the short-lived sitcom Oh Madeline (1983–84) and won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1987 for an ABC Afterschool Special. She received a…

Filmography

• Young Frankenstein as Elizabeth
• The Muppet Movie as El Sleezo Patron
• Blazing Saddles as Lili Von Shtupp
• Paper Moon as Trixie Delight
• What's Up, Doc? as Eunice Burns
• A Bug's Life as Gypsy Moth (voice)
• Clue as Mrs. White
• The Pixar Story as Gypsy (voice) (archive footage)
• History of the World: Part I as Empress Nympho
• At Long Last Love as Kitty O'Kelly (Kathy Krumm)

TV

• The Muppet Show as Self - Special Guest Star
• My Little Pony
• Hallmark Hall of Fame as Nurse Ruth Kelly
• Little Bill
• Cosby as Pauline Fox
• Road to Avonlea as Pigeon Plumtree
• Fridays as Self - Guest Host
• Adam's Rib as Doris
• Mr. President as Lois Gullickson
• Lucky Luke as Esperanza