Dinah Manoff was born in New York City, New York, to screenwriter
Arnold Manoff and actress, director, and
writer Lee Grant. She began her
professional career in the PBS production of "The Great Cherub Knitwear
Strike". After subsequent guest appearances on various television
series, she received a Tony Award in 1980 for her performance in the
Broadway production of Neil Simon's
"I Ought To Be In Pictures", a role she reprised in the 1982 film version,
starring opposite Walter Matthau.
Additional theater credits include Broadway's "Leader of the Pack",
"Alfred and Victoria", "Kingdom on Earth" and the Los Angeles stage
production of "Love Letters", opposite
Patrick Cassidy. On television,
Manoff was a regular on the Witt-Thomas-Harris sitcoms
Die Ausgeflippten (1977) and Harry's Nest (1988), and also appeared in the
television movies
Jackie und Denise - Eine Freundschaft auf Leben und Tod (1989)
(aka "Beauty & Denise"),
...die keine Gnade kennen (1976),
For Ladies Only (1981),
The Seduction of Gina (1984),
A Matter of Sex (1984),
Jumbo Crash (1984),
the miniseries Celebrity: Der Ruhm (1984) and
the NBC movie-of-the-week
Babies (1990), with
Lindsay Wagner. As well as her starring role in Eigentlich wollte ich zum Film (1982), Manoff's feature
film credits include Grease (1978), Eine ganz normale Familie (1980), Bluthunde am Broadway (1989), Final Night - Die letzte Nacht (1987) and
Chucky - Die Mörderpuppe (1988).
