Helen Hanft

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Helen Hanft (born April 1, 1937) is an American actress.

[edit] Biography

Helen Hanft was born in New York City. She started her theatrical career in the early 1960s, and in a few years she became one of the greatest actress of the Off-Off Broadway circuit. She was not such a great beauty but she had a great comedic talent; she often played eccentric and flamboyant characters in many successful plays like Tom Eyen's Why Hanna's Skirt Won't Stay Down, produced by "La MaMa, E.T.C.".

In the middle 1970s Hanft began to starred in many movies, sometimes directed by Woody Allen (Manhattan, 1979; The Purple Rose of Cairo, 1985). In 1992 she starred opposite Shirley MacLaine in Used People.

[edit] External links

• Helen Hanft at the Internet Movie Database