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Dinah Manoff was born in New York City, New York, to screenwriter Arnold Manoff and actress, director, and writer Lee Grant. She began her professional career in the PBS production of "The Great Cherub Knitwear Strike". After subsequent guest appearances on various television series, she received a Tony Award in 1980 for her performance in the Broadway production of Neil Simon's "I Ought To Be In Pictures", a role she reprised in the 1982 film version, starring opposite Walter Matthau. Additional theater credits include Broadway's "Leader of the Pack", "Alfred and Victoria", "Kingdom on Earth" and the Los Angeles stage production of "Love Letters", opposite Patrick Cassidy. On television, Manoff was a regular on the Witt-Thomas-Harris sitcoms Soap (1977) and Empty Nest (1988), and also appeared in the television movies The Cover Girl and the Cop (1989) (aka "Beauty & Denise"), Raid on Entebbe (1976), For Ladies Only (1981), The Seduction of Gina (1984), A Matter of Sex (1984), Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac (1984), the miniseries Celebrity (1984) and the NBC movie-of-the-week Babies (1990), with Lindsay Wagner. As well as her starring role in I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982), Manoff's feature film credits include Grease (1978), Ordinary People (1980), Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989), Backfire (1987) and Child's Play (1988).

(1980) She acted in Neil Simon&#39;s play, &quot;I Ought to Be In Pictures,&quot; on Broadway in New York City.

(July 20 to 31; August 10 to 14, 1982) She played Hilda Manney in John Murray and Allen Boretz&#39;s play, &quot;Room Service,&quot; in a Williamstown Theatre Festival production at the Main Stage in Williamstown, Massachusetts with Emery Battis (Dr. Glass); Tom Brennan (Senator Blake); Robert Brolli (Simon Jenkins); Dick Cavett (Leo Davis); Christian Clemenson (Joseph Gribble); Jerome Dempsey (Gregory Wagner); Michael French (House Detective); Joe Grifasi (Harry Binion); Frank Hankey (Timothy Hogarth, house detective); Edward Herrmann (Gordon Miller); Daniel Hugh-Kelly (Faker Englund); Laurie Kennedy (Christine Marlowe); Allen McCullough (house detective); Sam Ostroff (bellhop); Howard Samuelsohn (Bank Messenger); Dwight Schultz (Sasha Smirnoff) and Kevin Smith (bell hop) in the cast. Joe Grifasi and Jerry Dempsey were backstage. Nikos Psacharapoulos was artistic director. Kenneth Frankel was director. John Kasarda was setting designer. Rita Ryack was costume designer. James F. Ingalls was lighting designer. Mark Healy was stage manager. Scott LaFeber was assistant stage manager.

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