- Born
- Height5′ 5″ (1.65 m)
- Laraine Newman is a founding member of The Groundlings. After seeing her in The Groundlings, Lorne Michaels cast her in a Lily Tomlin Special and later as an original cast member of Saturday Night Live (1975). She has worked from directors ranging from Woody Allen to Guillermo del Toro. She has a thriving animation career and has written for the food magazine One For The Table, McSweeney's, The Believer, The Jewish Journal, Huffington Post and Esquire. She in on the board of San Francisco's long running alternative comedy festival Sketchiest and has appeared there since 2012. She appears regularly in the Drama Desk Award winning show Celebrity Autobiography. She has two children and lives in her home town of Los Angeles.- IMDb mini biography by: Laraine Newman
- SpouseChad Einbinder(1991 - present) (2 children)
- Children
- RelativesTracy Newman(Sibling)
- Studied mime with Marcel Marceau in Paris at age 18.
- The song "Never Let Her Slip Away", written and recorded by Andrew Gold, was about Newman. The two were a couple during the late 1970s when the ballad hit #5 on the UK charts.
- Began studying improvisational comedy at age 15.
- Gave birth to her first child at age 39, a son, Spike Einbinder, in August 1991. Child's father is her husband, Chad Einbinder.
- An alumna - and one of the founders - of The Groundlings comedy troupe in Los Angeles.
- Saturday Night Live (1975) - $2,000 /;week (Season 2)
- Saturday Night Live (1975) - $750 /week (Season 1)
- Saturday Night Live (1975) - $4,000 /week (Season 4)
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