Randee Heller

Randee Heller is an American actress who studied theater at Adelphi University and began performing on the New York stage, taking a role in an Off-Broadway production of Godspell and playing Rizzo in the Broadway musical Grease. She moved to California in 1978 to work in film and television, and her earliest high-profile part came as Alice on the sitcom Soap. She is known for playing Lucille LaRusso, Daniel LaRusso's mother, in The Karate Kid (1984) and The Karate Kid Part III (1989), a role she later reprised in Cobra Kai. Her other films include Fast Break (1979) and Monster-in-Law (2005). She was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for her guest role as Ida Blankenship on Mad Men, and her stage work includes Bermuda Avenue Triangle, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife and Cabaret.