Madeline Kahn
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The ThumbScore for Madeline Kahn (81.8%) is the average audience approval rating across 6 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Madeline's films are well-received by everyday viewers.
Madeline Gail Kahn (née Wolfson; September 29, 1942 – December 3, 1999) was an American actress, comedian and singer, known for comedic roles in films directed by Peter Bogdanovich and Mel Brooks, 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 received Tony Award nominations for the play In the Boom Boom Room in 1974 and for the original 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 a Daytime Emmy Award in 1987 for an ABC Afterschool Special. She received a third Tony Award nomination for the revival of the play Born Yesterday in 1989, before winning the 1993 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the comedy The Sisters Rosensweig. Her other film appearances included The Cheap Detective (1978), City Heat (1984), Clue (1985), and Nixon (1995).
Born 1942-09-29 in Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA. Died 1999-12-03.
On ThumbScore, Madeline Kahn appears in 6 films with an average audience score of 81.8%, most frequently in the Comedy genre.
Sources: TMDB
