Madeline Gail Kahn, nee Wolfson was a famous American comedian as well as an actress and singer. She is best known for her comedic roles in Mel Brooks and Peter Bogdanovich films, including What's Up Doc? (1972), Young Frankenstein (1974), High Anxiety (1977), History of the World, Part I (1981) and her Academy Award-nominated roles in Paper Moon (1973) and Blazing Saddles (1974).Kahn made her Broadway debut in Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1968, and was awarded Tony Award nominations for the show In the Boom Boom Room in 1974 and for the production of the musical On the Twentieth Century in 1978. She starred as Madeline Wayne on the short-lived sitcom Oh Madeline (1983-84) and won the Daytime Emmy Award in 1987 for an ABC Afterschool Special. After receiving a second Tony Award nomination in 1989 for the revival of the play Born Yesterday, she won the 1993 Tony Award as Best Actress in a Play. Other film roles she's performed included The Cheap Detective (1978), City Heat (84), Clue (85), Nixon (1995).
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