Biography
Terri Sue "Tovah" Feldshuh (born December 27, 1948) 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.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Westhampton
2025
as Mrs. Lucas
Haunted by an accident he caused in high school, a damaged filmmaker is forced to go back to the scene of the tragedy and face the friends whose lives...
A Girl Like Him
2025
as Noona Grey
In a small, close-knit town, lifelong best friends Lena Grey and Justin Beckett have always been each other's world. But both have been holding a deep...
A Girl Like Him
2025
Executive Producer
In a small, close-knit town, lifelong best friends Lena Grey and Justin Beckett have always been each other's world. But both have been holding a deep...
The Walking Dead: The Return
2024
as Deanna Monroe (archive footage)
Stars of "The Walking Dead," Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira, walk down memory lane and visit iconic locations where pivotal moments between their cha...
Bleecker
2023
as Linda
Full of heart, humor, and a phenomenal ensemble, this dark comedy is about people who create little distractions for themselves in order to avoid deal...
Come Find Me
2022
as Helena
Come Find Me is a story about a mother and daughter facing major life changes and how their love challenges and sustains them.
Armageddon Time
2022
as Mickey Graff
In 1980, Queens, New York, a young Jewish boy befriends a rebellious African-American classmate to the disapproval of his privileged family and begins...
Clifford the Big Red Dog
2021
as Mrs. Crullerman
As Emily struggles to fit in at home and at school, she discovers a small red puppy who is destined to become her best friend. When Clifford magically...
The Book of Ruth
2020
as Ruth
Margo, Dan, Jordan, and Lizzy visit grandmother Ruth for Passover. Later that night, Lizzy finds Ruth watching a midnight news story about Anne Frank’...
Love Type D
2019
as Dr. Elsa Blomgren
After getting dumped for the 11th time in a row, Frankie discovers that she has a "loser in love" gene, which predisposes her to chronic failure and r...
Remember Amnesia
2019
as Dr. Paula Smith
A US-based Physician from India loses his memory during an accident while visiting India and as his memory comes back, he can't remember whether he ha...
Golda's Balcony
2019
as Golda Meir
The rise of Golda Meir from Russian schoolgirl to Prime Minister of Israel is one of the most thrilling and amazing stories of the 20th Century. Meir'...
Angelica
2017
as Nora
A couple living in Victorian London endure an unusual series of psychological and supernatural effects following the birth of their child.
Broadway: The Next Generation
2017
as Self
A look at the past, present and future of the Great White Way.
Baked in Brooklyn
2016
as David's Mom
A recent college graduate decides to sell marijuana on the streets of Manhattan after losing his job at a consulting firm. He soon meets the girl of h...
She's Funny That Way
2015
as Miriam Pendergast
On the set of a playwright's new project, a love triangle forms between his wife, her ex-lover, and the call girl-turned-actress cast in the productio...
A Little Game
2014
as Blackstone Head of School
Ostracized at her posh new uptown school and shaken by the death of her beloved grandmother, a 10 year-old downtown girl finds an unlikely mentor in t...
The Hyperglot
2013
as Elaine
Despite an unrivaled talent for communicating, Jake has trouble talking to women. When an impossible situation presents itself, Jake ignores the signs...
Beautiful People
2012
as Lynch
TV movie from Stephen Hopkins
Heterosexuals
2010
as Remy
Three couples navigate romance in the Big Apple while managing an ever-increasing series of personal hurdles.
A Buddy Story
2010
as Buddy's Mom
Buddy Gilbert (Gavin Bellour) is a struggling musician living in NYC. He spends his days touring the northeast with his pet turtle, playing community ...
Everyday the Impossible: Jewish Women in the Partisans
2010
as Narrator
Women made up less than 10% of the partisans. Their work in the partisan camps ranged from domestic duties such as cleaning, cooking, and nursing, to ...
Acts of Mercy
2009
as Nurse Ruth Baker
Under the thumb of Nurse Baker, Nurse Maggie Collins struggles to care for the long-term residents of Moss Oak Manor, a home for the elderly. When go...
Eavesdrop
2008
as Susie
Two chess players face off at a busy café, studying both the pieces on the board and the unfolding dramas at the neighboring tables. While a young cou...
A House Divided
2008
as Rebecca Meir
An American Jewish man visiting Jerusalem for the funeral of his father gets sucked into a world of violent intrigue after meeting a mysterious, beaut...
Love Life
2007
as Hannah
A married young academic falls under the sexual thrall of a much older man whose air of jaded ennui conceals a secret desire for vengeance.
Love Comes Lately
2007
as Ethel
Though approaching his eighties, Max Kohn shows no signs of slowing down. He pursues his love life - both real and imagined - with youthful vigor, the...
Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women
2007
as Self
A documentary film about three generations of female Jewish comedians and the complexity and challenges of their relationship to comedy, Judaism, and ...
O Jerusalem
2006
as Golda Meir
A tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the state of Israel is being created.
Lady in the Water
2006
as Mrs. Bubchik
Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is act...
Just My Luck
2006
as Madame Z
Manhattanite Ashley is known to many as the luckiest woman around. After a chance encounter with a down-and-out young man, however, she realizes that ...
Alchemy
2005
as Senior Editor
Can an university computer scientist (Cavanagh) make a woman fall in love with his interactive computer before she succumbs to a well-known professor?
Life on the Ledge
2005
as Mother
Brian Leib, a thirty-two year old, ritualistic neurotic recluse who lives with his paranoid parents, only leaves his house to see his psychiatrist. Hi...
The Tollbooth
2004
as Ruthie Cohen
A coming-of-age comedy about a young woman who rebels against her Jewish-American family.
The End of the Bar
2002
as Mrs. Garner
A young personal injury lawyer pursues various career paths after meeting his guardian angel.
Kissing Jessica Stein
2002
as Judy Stein
Jessica, a Jewish copy editor living and working in New York City, is plagued by failed blind dates with men, and decides to answer a newspaper's pers...
New World Order
2002
as Sponge-Brush Woman
The diary of an occult novelist sends a young college student, on a journey into the paranormal and fantastic, evolving into a living nightmare of par...
The Believer
2001
as Woman in Shul at Rosh Hashannah
A hardcore US racist skinhead who, because of his intelligence, leads a gang dedicated to fighting the enemy: the supposed American-Jewish conspiracy ...
Friends and Family
2001
as Alma Jennings
Gay New York couple Stephen Torcelli and Danny Russo have something to hide from Stephen's parents -- their jobs as Mafia enforcers. When the Torcelli...
Happy Accidents
2000
as Lillian Weaver
A comedy that pays tribute to the science fiction genre -- specifically, the sub-genre of time travel. But here the alternate reality is contemporary ...
The Corruptor
1999
as U.S. Attorney Margaret Wheeler
Danny is a young cop partnered with Nick, a seasoned but ethically tainted veteran. As the two try to stop a gang war in Chinatown, Danny relies on Ni...
A Walk on the Moon
1999
as Lillian Kantrowitz
The world of a young housewife is turned upside down when she has an affair with a free-spirited blouse salesman.
Montana
1998
as Greta
A seasoned enforcer is given the seemingly routine task of finding the Boss's runaway mistress, Kitty. However Kitty is involved in plans to overthrow...
Hudson River Blues
1997
Hoping to help their marriage, a Manhattan lawyer (Rya Kihlstedt) brings her burned-out husband (Robert Stanton) to her mother's home upstate.
Aaron’s Magic Village
1995
as Zlateh the Goat / Aunt Sarah / The Matchmaker (voice)
When God distributed wiseness and foolishness through a newly created world, one of the cherubs accidentally dropped all the foolishness on a tiny vil...
Love and Betrayal: The Mia Farrow Story
1995
as Eleanor
Actress Mia Farrow's personal life takes a turn for the worse when she engages in a long relationship with Woody Allen.
Comfortably Numb
1995
as Victoria Stevens
A clean-cut young lawyer meets a beautiful prostitute who drags him into a decadent dead-end world of sex and corruption.
Citizen Cohn
1992
as Iva Schlesinger
As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his past visit him as he reflects on his life and loves...
A Day in October
1991
as Emma Kublitz
During the month of October 1943, the Danish resistance movement and just plain ordinary citizens joined together in staging a mass exodus by fishing ...
All That Glitters
1990
as Mrs. Carr
A group of high school students learn about ethics and the seduction of power when they start a cookie company for a class project.
The Blue Iguana
1988
as Detective Vera
To stay out of the slammer, down-on-his-luck bounty hunter Vince Holloway reluctantly agrees to do the bidding of two crooked IRS agents. Tasked with ...
Silver Bullet
1985
as Older Jane (voice)
The small city of Tarker's Mill is startled by a series of sadistic murders. The population fears that this is the work of a maniac. During a search a...
Brewster's Millions
1985
as Marilyn
Monty Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit $300 million if he can successfully spend $30 million in 30 days without anyt...
Daniel
1983
as Linda Mindish
The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. As a graduate student in New...
Cheaper to Keep Her
1981
as K. D. Locke
A newly divorced swinger on the prowl goes to work as a detective for a neurotic feminist attorney.
The Idolmaker
1980
as Brenda Roberts
Based on the life of rock promoter/producer Bob Marucci, who discovered, among others, Frankie Avalon and Fabian.
The Women's Room
1980
as Iso
A wife is sick and tired of her husband's infidelities, so she leaves home and goes back to grad-school. There she meets many self-confident women who...
Beggarman, Thief
1979
as Monika Wolner
In this sequel to "Rich Man, Poor Man," moviemaker Gretchen Jordache, the until-now unseen sister, strives to pull the family together after the murde...
The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal
1979
as Florence
The story of a fire in the Triangle Shirt Mfg. Co. building in New York City in 1911 that resulted in the deaths of 146 employees, mostly young women....
Terror Out of the Sky
1978
as Jeannie Devereux
TV sequel to "The Savage Bees" featuring more rampaging insects. This time a marching band and a school bus get in the path of the bees.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1978
as Sandy
A modern-day scientist gets teleported to Medieval England in King Arthur's Court! He has to adapt to the current times and tries to make improvement...
Nunzio
1978
as Michelle
A mentally-challenged delivery boy indulges in fantasies that he is a superhero in the tough streets of Brooklyn. He lives a life marked with torments...
The World of Darkness
1977
as Clara Sanford
A newspaper sportswriter has a special connection to the supernatural.
The Amazing Howard Hughes
1977
as Katharine Hepburn
The Amazing Howard Hughes is a 1977 television movie about American aviation pioneer and filmmaker Howard Hughes, based on the book by Hughes' busines...
Scream, Pretty Peggy
1973
as Agnes Thornton
A sculptor hires young college girls to take care of his elderly mother and his supposedly insane sister, both of whom live in the old family mansion ...
Start Without Me
N/A
as Roz
Adam, a newly sober former musician, and Marissa, a flight attendant whose marriage is in crisis, wind up on an epic Thanksgiving Day road trip, as th...
Tuner
N/A
as Marla
A talented piano tuner's life is turned upside down when he discovers that his meticulous skills for tuning pianos can equally be applied to cracking ...
Dirty Rhetoric
N/A
as Bea
Seven eccentric party crashers confront enemies in a secluded Long Island château as unknown flashes hijack Independence Day in the 1950s - little do ...
We Should Eat
N/A
as Diane
When a family gathers for dinner and to be part of a 12-year-old’s school project on identity, people rethink who they are and what they want to eat.