Rosina Fernhoff
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Rosina Fernhoff (born April 13, 1931)[https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KJFT-7N5 Date of birth], familysearch.org; accessed May 31, 2014. is an American actress known for her work in the theatre. She often performs plays that deal with Jewish themes.
{{Infobox person
| name = Rosina Fernhoff
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1931|04|13}}
| birth_place = New York City, New York, U.S
| yearsactive = 1951–present
| occupation = Actress
| spouse = Avraham Inlender (widowed)
}}
Personal life
Fernhoff was born in New York City, the daughter of Austrian-Jewish immigrant parents Dr. William and Tola Fernhoff. She is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon with a B.F.A in Theatre and furthered her studies at Bank Street College of Education in New York City. She is the widow of artist, playwright, and director Avraham "Av" Inlender (d.2003). Her husband immigrated from Poland to Israel and the U.S. Both lost family members to the Holocaust. They have two daughters. Fernhoff studied acting with Lee Strasberg.[https://books.google.com/books?id=xdKnkj1qsocC&pg=PA319 Theatre World: 2003-2004. Vol. 60 – Google Books][https://books.google.com/books?id=T-Zce_nnmQQC&pg=PA78 In the Catskills: A Century of Jewish Experience in "The Mountains" – Google Books][http://catskills.brown.edu/narratives/placeincountry.shtml The Catskills Institute][http://archives.timesleader.com/2010_13/2010_04_09_One_woman_show_confronts_questions__sorrow_of_the_Holocaust_-features.html Wilkes-Barre, news, sports, obituaries, and classifieds for Luzerne County and Scranton | The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, Scranton PA – www.timesleader.com] She is a resident of New York City. She continues to perform in theater, film, and tour her one-woman shows. In August 2014, she performed in New York City at the Fresh Fruit Festival as Alice B. Toklas in The Conversion of Alice B. Toklas by Carol Polcovar.
Career
Fernhoff won an Obie Award for Best Actress in 1959 for her performance in two Off-Broadway plays, Fashion as Gertrude, by Anna Cora Mowatt, and The Geranium Hat as Anne-Betty by Bernard Evslin.
She is known for performing plays written by her husband, Av Inlender. These plays include Jerusalem Story, a play that relates the story of the kidnapping of a young boy in Israel for political gain, Mrs. Davidson's Story, which revolves around an American teacher in an Israeli school that is taken-over by terrorists and Shadows, the story of a Russian Jewish choreographer who through her personal story, pleads for asylum for imprisoned Jews in the Anti- Semitic Soviet Union.[https://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/04/arts/going-out-guide.html GOING OUT GUIDE – NYTimes.com][http://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00014312/00507/2j Jewish Floridian of greater Ft. Lauderdale][http://www.copyrightencyclopedia.com/bon-voyage-going-places-together-the-story-box-rainbow-wars/ Bon voyage-Going places together, The Story box, Rainbow wars]
"Snow People", a play adapted by Av Inlender from his novel, Zoa, also stars Fernhoff, as Anna Blake, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor who discovers fifty years later the Nazi's who terrorized her family.
In 2006 Fernhoff performed Snow People at Colorado State University as a special guest for their Holocaust Awareness Week. She has performed these one-person shows at theaters, colleges and Synagogues across the United States, in Europe and Israel. In addition to acting, Fernhoff directs and coaches.[http://www.news.colostate.edu/Release/1054 Obie Award Winning Actress Performs Â??snow People' at Colorado State University During Holocaust Awareness Week – News & Information – Colorado State University]
She is a member of Carnival Girls Productions and on November 15, 2014 she was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at Speyer Hall, University Settlement in New York City.
Fernhoff is fluent in Hebrew and German. In her youth she performed classic roles in Israel at the Cameri Theater such as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1915&dat=19821027&id=mfUgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=I3UFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1759,4804798 The Day – Google News Archive Search] Her other credits include starring roles in The Glass Menagerie, Come Back, Little Sheba, Hamlet, The Piano Teacher, and The Quickening.
Film and television
In film she has appeared in supporting roles, Love Hunter (2013) and Bobby Dogs (2007). Ms. Fernhoff has appeared in numerous short films including Man of the House, which screened at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|2655905}}
- [http://lortel.org/Archives/CreditableEntity/48060 Rosina Fernhoff] at Internet Off-Broadway Database
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Category:American stage actresses
Category:Jewish American actresses
Category:Actresses from New York (state)
Category:Carnegie Mellon University College of Fine Arts alumni
Category:American people of Austrian-Jewish descent
Category:20th-century American actresses
Category:21st-century American actresses
Category:Obie Award recipients
Category:American film actresses