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person_profile-Charlotte Rae

Charlotte Rae Died at age: 92

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Charlotte Rae

Date of Birth:

Apr 22, 1926

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Aug 05, 2018

Biography of

Charlotte Rae

    Charlotte Rae Lubotsky was born on April 22, 1926, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Russian Jewish immigrants Esther (née Ottenstein), who was a childhood friend of Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, and Meyer Lubotsky, a retail tire business owner. She is one of three sisters, along with Miriam and the late Beverly (December 21, 1921 – June 2, 1998).

    She graduated from Shorewood High School in 1944. For the first ten years or so of her life, Rae's family lived in Milwaukee, then moved to Shorewood, Wisconsin. She did radio work and was with the Wauwatosa Children's Theatre. At 16, she was an apprentice with the Port Players, a professional theater company that came for the summer to Milwaukee, with several established actors such as Morton DaCosta, who would eventually direct The Music Man on Broadway.

    Rae attended Northwestern University, although she did not complete her studies, where she met Cloris Leachman, who many years later succeeded Rae on The Facts of Life for the show's last two seasons. At Northwestern she met several unknown stars and producers, including Agnes Nixon, Charlton Heston, Paul Lynde, Gerald Freedman, Claude Akins and songwriter Sheldon Harnick. When a radio personality told her that her last name wouldn't do, she dropped it, to her father's chagrin. She moved to New York City in 1948, where she performed in the theater and nightclubs. During her early years in New York, she worked at the Village Vanguard (alongside up-and-coming talents such as singer Richard Dyer-Bennet) and at the posh Blue Angel, home to budding talents Barbra Streisand, Mike Nichols and Elaine May. She moved to Los Angeles in 1974

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Filmography of

Charlotte Rae

Found 32 Movies in total

Ricki and the Flash

Oma ( Actor )

... 2015

... 2015

Love Sick Love

Edna ( Actor )

... 2012

Christmas Cottage

Vesta ( Actor )

... 2008

You Don't Mess with the Zohan

Mrs. Greenhouse ( Actor )

... 2008

The Facts of Life Reunion

Mrs. Edna Garrett ( Actor )

... 2001

... 2000

The Tangerine Bear: Home in Time for Christmas!

Mrs. Caruthers (voice) ( Actor )

... 2000

Another Woman's Husband

Stella ( Actor )

... 2000

... 1998

Nowhere

Fortune Teller ( Actor )

... 1997

Thunder in Paradise

Lola Miller ( Actor )

... 1993

Tom and Jerry: The Movie

Aunt Figg (voice) ( Actor )

... 1992

The Worst Witch

Miss Cackle ( Actor )

... 1986

... 1985

Words by Heart

Mary Tom Chism ( Actor )

... 1985

The Facts of Life Goes to Paris

Edna Garrett ( Actor )

... 1982

Night of 100 Stars

Self ( Actor )

... 1982

Hair

Lady in Pink ( Actor )

... 1979

... 1979

Rabbit Test

Cousin Claire ( Actor )

... 1978

Sidewinder 1

Mrs. Holt ( Actor )

... 1977

Our Town

Mrs. Soames ( Actor )

... 1977

... 1975

The Hot Rock

Ma Murch ( Actor )

... 1972

Bananas

Mrs. Ruth Mellish ( Actor )

... 1971

Jenny

Bella Star ( Actor )

... 1970

Hello Down There

Myrtle Ruth ( Actor )

... 1969

Pinocchio

Rosa Whale ( Actor )

... 1968

The Love Song of Barney Kempinski

Woman in Window ( Actor )

... 1968

The Journey of the Fifth Horse

Terentievna ( Actor )

... 1966

The World of Sholom Aleichem

The Angel Rochele ( Actor )

... 1959