Wendy Makkena
Biography
Wendy Makkena is an American actress who came to film from the New York stage, having trained at the Juilliard School. She made her Broadway debut in 1987 in Pygmalion and later appeared in Lend Me a Tenor and Side Man, while her first screen role came in 1988 with Eight Men Out. She is best known as Sister Mary Robert, the shy singing nun opposite Whoopi Goldberg in Sister Act (1992) and Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993). Her other films include Camp Nowhere (1994), Air Bud (1997), State of Play (2009) and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019). On television she starred in the sitcom A League of Their Own and had regular roles on The Job, Oliver Beene, Listen Up and The Mob Doctor, with recurring parts on NYPD Blue, Judging Amy and NCIS.
68years old
Turns 69 on October 4in 355 days
- Born Manhattan
- Star sign: LibraThe sign runs September 23 to October 22
- Also credited as Wendy Rosenberg Makkena
Movie Career
- Films
- 11
- Career span
- 27 years1992 to 2019
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Films together
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Also two films together1 more actor
- Nicola CavendishAir Bud (1997) and Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995)
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