Madeline Kahn

 Madeline Gail Kahn (nee Wolfson September 29, 1942 - December 3, 1999) was an American actress as well as a comedian, well-known for her comedic roles in films written by Peter Bogdanovich and Mel Brooks such as What's Up, Doc? (1972), Young Frankenstein (1974), High Anxiety (1977), History of the World, Part I (1981) as well as 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 was awarded Tony Award nominations for the show In the Boom Boom Room in 1974 and for the production of the musical On the Twentieth Century in 1978. She was the lead character Madeline Wayne on the short-lived sitcom Oh Madeline (1983-84) and was awarded a Daytime Emmy Award in 1987 for an ABC Afterschool Special. She earned a second Tony Award nomination for the revival of the play Born Yesterday in 1989, after which she won the 1993 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the comedy The Sisters Rosensweig. Other film roles she's performed included The Cheap Detective (1978), City Heat (84), Clue (85), Nixon (1995).