Jeannie Berlin

Jeannie Berlin is an American actress who made her screen debut in the television movie In Name Only and performed on the New York stage before entering films. She appeared in Getting Straight, The Strawberry Statement, Move, and Bone. Her mother Elaine May directed her in The Heartbreak Kid (1972), the Neil Simon comedy that brought Berlin a Best Supporting Actress nomination from the Academy Awards and the Golden Globes, as well as a National Society of Film Critics Award. She took the lead in Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York (1975), then co-wrote and appeared in In the Spirit (1990). She worked off-Broadway and made her Broadway debut in 2005, then returned to cinema in Margaret (2011), receiving positive reviews and critics group nominations. Later film credits include Inherent Vice (2014), Café Society (2016), The Fabelmans (2022), and You Hurt My Feelings (2023); on television she has appeared in The Night Of, Succession, and Hunters.