Who is zelda rubinstein

Facebook Twitter Show more sharing options Share Close extra sharing options. By Dennis McLellan. The role was written specifically for a little person. A celebration of her life will be held at a later date.

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Show all Hide all Show by Jump to: Actress Self Archive footage. Hide Show Actress 58 credits. Pawn Shop Lady. Patty's Mother voice. Nurse Froyd. Ginny Weedon. Ginny Weedon credit only. Show all 44 episodes. Madame Zeldarina voice, as Zelda Rubenstein. Director Gary Sherman was present and asked her what was wrong, she responded with a comment like "I don't know, was just a jolt. I'm fine. After developing the film from the photo shoot, it was discovered that every photo had come out fine, except one, which had an inexplicable cloud of light clouding into the photo from Rubenstein's left, covering half of her with a semi-transparent haze.

Rubenstein said she knew the jolt had to have been her mother's passing - she said they always had a particularly strong bond, in a way some identical twins have. Sherman, who had witnessed it, agrees it could not have been anything else. Both Rubenstein and Sherman were already very well aware of the tragic events which had plagued the film series.

Attended the University of California and the University of Pittsburgh. It was named after the late Oscar-nominated actor, also a little person and highly successful on film and TV. She was seriously considered for the role of Shadout Mapes in Dune The role of Mr. Pickett in Paganini Horror was originally a woman and was written with Rubinstein in mind. It was an internal feeling that I was sabotaging myself. You're not an actor if you're just a person that fits into a cute costume.

You're a prop. You're jamming my frequencies. Besides her performances in films and on television, Rubinstein was a noted activist for the rights of little people the term she preferred. She also campaigned for Aids education and greater public awareness of the disease in , when it was courageous to do so.

She appeared as a mother figure in a series of commercials aimed at gay men, and said later that she did "pay a price, career-wise". Rubenstein did not start acting until she was nearly She was born in Pittsburgh in , her lack of height due to a deficiency of the anterior pituitary gland, which produces growth hormone.

She described herself as "the only one different in appearance" in her family.