Tovah Feldshuh

Known for: Acting

Born: 1948-12-27 (age 77)

From: New York City, New York, USA

Terri Sue "Tovah" Feldshuh is an American actress, singer, and playwright. She has been a Broadway star for fifty years, earning four Tony Award nominations. She has also received two Emmy Award nominations for Holocaust and Law & Order, and appeared in such films as A Walk on the Moon, She's Funny That Way, and Kissing Jessica Stein. In 2015–2016, she played the role of Deanna Monroe on AMC's television adaptation of The Walking Dead.

Filmography (105)

MOVIE★ 7.5
Westhampton
2026
as Mrs. Lucas
MOVIE★ 7.2
Tuner
2026
as Marla Horowitz
TV★ 8.5
M.I.A.
2026
as Lena
MOVIE
TOVAH
2026
as Self
MOVIE★ 4.0
A Girl Like Him
2025
as Noona Grey
MOVIE
Malka
2025
as Malka
TV★ 7.3
Nobody Wants This
2024
as Bina Roklov
MOVIE
We Should Eat
2024
as Diane
MOVIE★ 7.4
The Walking Dead: The Return
2024
as Deanna Monroe (archive footage)
TV★ 6.9
Harlan Coben's Shelter
2023
as Bat Lady
MOVIE★ 1.0
Bleecker
2023
as Linda
MOVIE★ 2.0
Come Find Me
2022
as Helena
MOVIE★ 6.4
Armageddon Time
2022
as Mickey Graff
MOVIE★ 7.2
Clifford the Big Red Dog
2021
as Mrs. Crullerman
TV★ 7.2
Scenes from a Marriage
2021
as Miryam Levy
MOVIE★ 6.5
The Book of Ruth
2020
as Ruth
TV
Stars in the House
2020
as Self
MOVIE★ 5.6
Love Type D
2019
as Dr. Elsa Blomgren
MOVIE
Remember Amnesia
2019
as Dr. Paula Smith
MOVIE
Golda's Balcony
2019
as Golda Meir
TV★ 6.2
Star Wars Resistance
2018
as Aunt Z / Random Human (voice)
MOVIE★ 4.8
Angelica
2017
as Nora
TV★ 6.6
Salvation
2017
as President Pauline Mackenzie
MOVIE★ 5.2
Baked in Brooklyn
2016
as David's Mom
TV★ 7.1
Bull
2016
as Judge Garner
TV★ 6.7
Flesh and Bone
2015
as Ivana
TV★ 6.8
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
2015
as Naomi Bunch
MOVIE★ 5.9
She's Funny That Way
2015
as Miriam Pendergast
MOVIE★ 6.5
A Little Game
2014
as Blackstone Head of School
MOVIE★ 8.0
The Hyperglot
2013
as Elaine
TV★ 7.3
Talking Dead
2011
as Self
TV★ 8.1
The Walking Dead
2010
as Deanna Monroe
MOVIE★ 10.0
Heterosexuals
2010
as Remy
MOVIE
A Buddy Story
2010
as Buddy's Mom
MOVIE
Everyday the Impossible: Jewish Women in the Partisans
2010
as Narrator
TV★ 7.6
The Good Wife
2009
as Lena
MOVIE
Acts of Mercy
2009
as Nurse Ruth Baker
MOVIE★ 4.6
Eavesdrop
2008
as Susie
MOVIE★ 7.3
A House Divided
2008
as Rebecca Meir
MOVIE★ 4.7
Love Life
2007
as Hannah
MOVIE★ 5.2
Love Comes Lately
2007
as Ethel
MOVIE
Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women
2007
as Self
MOVIE★ 6.1
O Jerusalem
2006
as Golda Meir
TV★ 6.4
Ugly Betty
2006
as Mrs. Varner
MOVIE★ 5.6
Lady in the Water
2006
as Mrs. Bubchik
MOVIE★ 6.2
Just My Luck
2006
as Madame Z
MOVIE★ 5.5
Alchemy
2005
as Senior Editor
MOVIE
Life on the Ledge
2005
as Mother
MOVIE★ 3.5
The Tollbooth
2004
as Ruthie Cohen
TV★ 6.1
Queens Supreme
2003
MOVIE★ 9.0
The End of the Bar
2002
as Mrs. Garner
MOVIE★ 6.0
Kissing Jessica Stein
2002
as Judy Stein
MOVIE★ 5.3
New World Order
2002
as Sponge-Brush Woman
TV★ 7.6
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
as Danielle Melnick
TV★ 7.2
Crossing Jordan
2001
as Elaine Brandau
MOVIE★ 6.9
The Believer
2001
as Woman in Shul at Rosh Hashannah
MOVIE★ 5.8
Friends and Family
2001
as Alma Jennings
MOVIE★ 6.8
Happy Accidents
2000
as Lillian
MOVIE★ 6.1
The Corruptor
1999
as U.S. Attorney Margaret Wheeler
MOVIE★ 6.0
A Walk on the Moon
1999
as Lillian Kantrowitz
TV★ 7.5
A Will of their Own
1998
as Mrs. Rubenstein
MOVIE★ 5.7
Montana
1998
as Greta
MOVIE★ 8.0
Hudson River Blues
1997
TV★ 4.3
The View
1997
as Self
MOVIE★ 6.1
The Real Shlemiel
1995
as Zlateh the Goat / Aunt Sarah / The Matchmaker (voice)
MOVIE★ 4.7
Love and Betrayal: The Mia Farrow Story
1995
as Eleanor Alter (Uncredited)
TV
Love and Betrayal: The Mia Farrow Story
1995
as Eleanor Alter (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 3.3
Comfortably Numb
1995
as Victoria Stevens
MOVIE★ 6.3
Citizen Cohn
1992
as Iva Schlesinger
MOVIE★ 4.5
A Day in October
1991
as Emma Kublitz
MOVIE★ 7.0
Saying Kaddish
1991
TV★ 7.3
Law & Order
1990
as Danielle Melnick
MOVIE
All That Glitters
1990
as Mrs. Carr
MOVIE★ 4.2
The Blue Iguana
1988
as Detective Vera
TV★ 5.0
Mariah
1987
as Deena Hertz
TV★ 7.1
L.A. Law
1986
as Lynn Palmer
MOVIE★ 6.6
Silver Bullet
1985
as Older Jane (voice)
TV★ 7.1
The Equalizer
1985
as Samantha Page
MOVIE★ 6.6
Brewster's Millions
1985
as Marilyn
TV★ 7.6
Airwolf
1984
as Sarah Lebow
MOVIE★ 6.7
Daniel
1983
as Linda Mindish
TV★ 8.3
Reading Rainbow
1983
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MOVIE★ 4.3
Cheaper to Keep Her
1981
as K. D. Locke
MOVIE★ 5.6
The Idolmaker
1980
as Brenda Roberts
MOVIE★ 4.4
The Women's Room
1980
as Iso
MOVIE★ 5.7
Beggarman, Thief
1979
as Monika Wolner
TV
Beggarman, Thief
1979
as Monika Wolner
MOVIE★ 7.3
The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal
1979
as Florence
MOVIE★ 5.4
Terror Out of the Sky
1978
as Jeannie Devereux
MOVIE★ 7.0
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1978
as Sandy
MOVIE★ 4.9
Nunzio
1978
as Michelle
TV★ 7.3
Holocaust
1978
as Helena Slomová
TV★ 6.3
The Love Boat
1977
as Susan Ridley
MOVIE★ 5.5
World of Darkness
1977
as Clara Sanford
MOVIE★ 6.4
The Amazing Howard Hughes
1977
as Katharine Hepburn
TV★ 6.0
The Amazing Howard Hughes
1977
as Katharine Hepburn
TV★ 10.0
Gibbsville
1976
MOVIE★ 6.2
Scream, Pretty Peggy
1973
as Agnes Thornton
TV★ 7.5
The Bob Newhart Show
1972
as Veronica Kidd
MOVIE
Dirty Rhetoric
—
as Bea
MOVIE
C-Side
—
as Mrs. Klein
MOVIE
Not Dead Yet
—
as Paulette
MOVIE
Broadway: The Next Generation
—
as Self
MOVIE
Start Without Me
—
as Roz
MOVIE
The Upside of Unrequited
—
as Grandma Betty