Marilyn Sokol
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Marilyn Roberta Sokol (born February 22, 1937) is an American actress, comedian, teacher, singer and writer/director. She has won an Emmy Award, an Obie Award, and a Bistro Award.
Biography
She lives in New York City and has appeared in film, television as well as in theatre on Broadway, off-Broadway and regional theatres.
Sokol was born February 22, 1937 in the Bronx, New York City and attended Calvin Coolidge High School in Washington, D.C. and New York University. She began her professional career in 1966 as a belly dancer in the national production of Man of La Mancha. She won an Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress in 1972 for her performance in a Chelsea Theater Center production of The Beggar's Opera.[1][2] She has worked as a comedian, singer, and cabaret performer.[3][4] In 2012-2013, she starred in the off-Broadway production Old Jews Telling Jokes.[5] She has taught as a distinguished lecturer in the theatre program at Lehman College.[6] She currently portrays Agnes Vertrulli on the web series Submissions Only.
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1971 | The Hospital | Lady Lib. | uncredited |
1976 | The Front | Sandy | |
1977 | The Goodbye Girl | Linda | |
1978 | Foul Play | Stella | |
1979 | Something Short of Paradise | Ruthie Miller | |
1980 | The Last Married Couple in America | Alice Squib | |
1980 | Can't Stop the Music | Lulu Brecht | |
1988 | Crocodile Dundee II | Doris | |
1989 | Family Business | Marie | |
1994 | Men Lie | Porno Witness | |
1995 | The Basketball Diaries | Chanting Woman | |
1999 | Man on the Moon | Madame | |
2002 | Big Apple | Ms. Callahan | |
2005 | The Producers | Bag Lady | |
2008 | Lucky Days | Cherie | |
2011 | Musical Chairs | Mrs. Greenbaum | |
2011 | Wounded Warrior | Grandma Grace | short |
2015 | Unplugging Aunt Vera | Aunt Vera | short |
2015 | Sam | Mrs. Goldfarb | |
???? | A Conversational Place | Jeannie | short |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1972-1992 | Sesame Street | Various Muppets | recurring role |
1977 | Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas | Ma Otter | voice, TV movie |
1977 | Barney Miller | Dr. Lorraine Dooley | "Sex Surrogate" |
1977 | All That Glitters | Farrah Abuban | |
1980 | Scalpels | Dr. Betty Hacker | TV movie |
1982 | Sesame Street | Camp Director Aunt May | on camera appearance, 5 episodes |
1986 | Joe Bash | Betty | "Joe's First Partner" |
1991 | Law & Order | Marilee Katz | "His Hour Upon the Stage" |
1996 | Law & Order | Mrs. Levine | "Encore" |
1999 | Sex and the City | Dr. Velma Rubin | "The Awful Truth" |
2000 | Between the Lions | The Strange Old Woman | "Sausage Nose" |
2011 | Are We There Yet? | Old Woman | "The Salsa Episode" |
2014 | Submissions Only | Agnes Vetrulli | Main role |
2015 | Difficult People | Older Woman | "Pilot" |
Notable theater productions
- Year Boston Won the Pennant (1969)
- The Great God Brown, Cybel, Dec. 10, 1972 - Jan. 13, 1973
- Don Juan, Matherine, Dec. 11, 1972 - Jan. 13, 1973
- Elephant Steps (1974) (in the role of Ragtime Lady, her performance of "Watch Me Put My Right Foot Through the Door" has been captured on the cast album)
- Welcome to the Club, Arlene Metzler, Apr. 13 - 22, 1989
- Guilt Without Sex (one woman show, 1991)[7]
- Conversations with My Father, Hannah de Blinde, Mar. 22, 1992 - Mar. 14, 1993
- Shlemiel the First (1994-1997)
- Angel Levine (1995)
- Sam and Itkeh (1997)
- If Memory Serves (1999)
- Closet Chronicles (2003)
- In the Wings (2005)
- Old Jews Telling Jokes (2013)
References
- ^ Ellen Stern, "Suddenly It's Sokol", New York, October 24, 1977.
- ^ Audrey Berman, "17th Annual 'Obies'", The Village Voice, May 11, 1972.
- ^ Stephen Holden, "Cabaret: Marilyn Sokol Sings", The New York Times, February 4, 1984.
- ^ Stephen Holden, "Cabaret: Marilyn Sokol", The New York Times, September 10, 1987.
- ^ Neal Conan, "'Old Jews' Take Jokes To The Stage", Talk of the Nation, June 14, 2012.
- ^ "Professor Sokol Praised for Role in 'Love Divided By/Times Three'", Lehman College, October 21, 2010.
- ^ Stephen Holden, "Review/Cabaret; Marilyn Sokol's Way With Guilt", February 7, 1991.
External links
- Living people
- 1937 births
- Actresses from New York City
- American stage actresses
- New York University alumni
- Lehman College faculty
- American film actresses
- American television actresses
- Obie Award recipients
- Emmy Award winners
- 20th-century American actresses
- 21st-century American actresses
- American web series actresses