Caroline Sidney Aaron (
née
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Abady; born )
is an American actress.
She is known for her performances in films like
Mike Nichols' ''
Heartburn'' (1986) and ''
Primary Colors'' (1998), as well as
Woody Allen's ''
Crimes and Misdemeanors'' (1989), ''
Alice
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* Alice (''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''), a character in books by Lewis Carroll
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'' (1990), and ''
Deconstructing Harry'' (1997), and
Nora Ephron's ''
Sleepless in Seattle'' (1993). She also appeared in
Tim Burton's ''
Edward Scissorhands'' (1990) and
Stanley Tucci's ''
Big Night'' (1996). More recently, she appeared in ''
21 Jump Street
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'' (2012) and its sequel ''
22 Jump Street
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'' (2014).
She is also known for her work on television, including guest roles on ''
Wings,
Frasier,
Curb Your Enthusiasm
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'', ''
Desperate Housewives
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,
Transparent'', ''
Madam Secretary'', and ''
The Good Fight''.
Her Broadway roles include
Woody Allen's ''
Relatively Speaking'', ''
I Hate Hamlet'', ''Social Security'' and ''
The Iceman Cometh'' starring
Jason Robards.
She is currently a regular on the critically acclaimed and
Primetime Emmy Award
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-winning show ''
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel'' (2017–present), with her comic performance of a
Jewish mother winning her two consecutive
Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series alongside the
rest of the series' cast.
Early life
Aaron was born in
Richmond, Virginia
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Her mother, Nina Abady ( Friedman) was a civil rights activist; Alabama-born, she was of Syrian Jewish descent, and worked full time to support her three kids after Aaron's father, who was of
Sephardic Jewish
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(
Lebanese-Jewish) descent, died. Aaron's elder sister,
Josephine Abady, a theatre director and producer, died from breast cancer on May 25, 2002, aged 52.
Aaron attended
American University
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in
Washington, D.C., studying performing arts. She studied acting at
HB Studio in New York City.
Personal life
She has been married to James Foreman since 1980; they have two children.
Filmography
Film
Television
Aaron is a guest instructor at
HB Studio.
Theatre
Video games
Award and nominations
References
External links
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American film producers
American University alumni
Jewish American actresses
Actresses from Richmond, Virginia
1952 births
Living people
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
American film actresses
American stage actresses
American television actresses
Businesspeople from Richmond, Virginia
American women film producers
American people of Hungarian-Jewish descent
American people of Lebanese-Jewish descent
American Sephardic Jews
American Mizrahi Jews
21st-century American Jews