Zohra Lampert

Zohra Lampert is an American actress, now retired, who worked across theater, film and television. Born in New York City, she attended the University of Chicago before training at HB Studio with Uta Hagen and with Mira Rostova, whom she studied with after leaving the Playwrights Theatre Club. She was also part of the Second City troupe, in Chicago and then New York. On Broadway she earned two Tony Award nominations, for Look: We've Come Through (1962) and Mother Courage and Her Children (1963). Her films include Splendor in the Grass (1961), Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971), in which she played the title role, and John Cassavetes' Opening Night (1977) with Gena Rowlands. She won a Primetime Emmy Award for a guest turn on Kojak in 1975 and was a series regular on The Girl with Something Extra and Doctors' Hospital. After a decade away from movies, she returned in The Hungry Ghosts (2009) and Zenith (2010).