Kathryn Janis Grody is an American actress and writer.
Early life and education
Grody was born in
Los Angeles, California
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. She studied acting at
HB Studio
The HB Studio (Herbert Berghof Studio) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization offering professional training in the performing arts through classes, workshops, free lectures, theater productions, theater rentals, a theater artist residency prog ...
in New York City.
Career
Grody wrote, and acted in, the autobiographical play ''Mom's Life''.
In 2013, Grody appeared as Lola in the
Primary Stages
Primary Stages was founded in 1984 by Casey Childs as an Off-Broadway not-for-profit theater company. In 2004, Primary Stages moved from its 99-seat home of 17 years at 354 West 45th Street to the 199-seat theater at 59E59 Theaters. In 2014, the ...
production of ''The Model Apartment''.
Personal life
She has been married to actor and singer
Mandy Patinkin
Mandel Bruce Patinkin (; born November 30, 1952) is an American actor and singer, known for his work in musical theatre, television and film. He is a critically acclaimed Broadway performer, having received three Tony Award nominations, winning ...
since 1980 and they have two children, Isaac and Gideon. In 2020, Gideon began filming and photographing Grody and Patinkin's daily lives, posting images and clips to multiple social media outlets. The couple soon developed a significant social media following.
Later that year, Grody and Patinkin partnered with
Swing Left, creating
viral videos
A viral video is a video that becomes popular through a viral process of Internet sharing, typically through video sharing websites such as YouTube as well as social media and email.Lu Jiang, Yajie Miao, Yi Yang, ZhenZhong Lan, Alexander Haupt ...
with their sons to encourage people to vote for
Joe Biden in the
2020 United States presidential election
The 2020 United States presidential election was the 59th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. The Democratic ticket of former vice president Joe Biden and the junior U.S. senator from California Kamala Ha ...
.
Filmography (as actress)
References
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Actresses from Los Angeles
20th-century American dramatists and playwrights
American film actresses
American television actresses
Living people
Obie Award recipients
Patinkin family
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
Year of birth missing (living people)
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