So no more Danielle Melnick? Was she killed or not?
I really liked her as a defense attorney.
She’s not dead yet! As she was loaded into the ambulance, she had an oxygen mask on, which would not have been the case if she had died already.
The Melnick character was given a wrist-slap, but I got no indication she was disbarred or killed. She might return, but Tovah Feldshuh hasn’t been a semi-regular actor on L&O since 8 appearances in 1990. This most recent appearance is more of a hiccup than anything else.
If you like Feldshuh, I recommend a weird little movie called The Blue Iguana (1988) featuring Feldshuh, a pre-Practice Dylan McDermott and a pre-Quantum Leap Dean Stockwell.
I watch a lot of the reruns on A&E (before they lost it) and TNT, so she’s always a regular in my house!
She has an unusual name. Is it Hebrew?
Yep. It’s Hebrew for “good.” My sister has the variant name “Tauba” after our grandmother, and we’re all Jewish, last time I checked.
According to her imdb profile, Feldshuh’s birth name is “Terri” and she one said “People think of me as the Jewish Meryl Streep.”
By unusual, I meant a name one doesn’t see everyday. Is it pronounced TOH-vah?
Properly pronounced, the emphasis is on the last syllable (to-VAH). However, many Americans (with English as the mother tounge where the last sylabble is usually not emphasized [as it is in Hebrew]) will pronounce it TO-vah.
Zev Steinhardt
The IMDB says that Tovah Feldshuh’s real first name is Terri.
She had appeared on “Law and Order” as recently as 2000. If you were looking the IMDB, you may have been confused because the year the show debuted is listed next to the title “Law and Order”, the date the show aired is listed after that.
She has been one of the more entertaining defense lawyers on the show. Along with women like Lorraine Toussaint and Patti LuPone.
Ah, my mistake.
She’s also a Broadway actress who started in the early 70’s. Last year, when the York Theater Company did a Musicals in Mufti version of the 1973 CYRANO, she told us delightful stories of Christopher Plummer and his antics during that brilliant short-lived flop. She had done a cartwheel as the fruit seller and she enchanted us all by doing another one right there on stage!
A wonderful lady. I hope Danielle isn’t dead. They always get good theater people for the lawyers–I love David Garrison’s and Elaine Stritch’s characters–but lately they haven’t been doing much with them.