Tovah Feldshuh

Biography

Terri Sue "Tovah" Feldshuh is an American actress, singer, and playwright. She has been a Broadway star for fifty years, earning four Tony Award nominations. She has also received two Emmy Award nominations for Holocaust and Law & Order, and appeared in such films as A Walk on the Moon, She's Funny That Way, and Kissing Jessica Stein. In 2015–2016, she played the role of Deanna Monroe on AMC's television adaptation of The Walking Dead.

Known For

Law & Order

The Walking Dead

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

The Good Wife

The View

The Love Boat

Crossing Jordan

Bull

All Movies (73)

• Westhampton2026 · as Mrs. Lucas
• Tuner2026 · as Marla
• TOVAH2026 · as Self
• A Girl Like Him2025 · as Noona Grey
• Malka2025 · as Malka
• We Should Eat2024 · as Diane
• The Walking Dead: The Return2024 · as Deanna Monroe (archive footage)
• Bleecker2023 · as Linda
• Come Find Me2022 · as Helena
• Armageddon Time2022 · as Mickey Graff
• Clifford the Big Red Dog2021 · as Mrs. Crullerman
• The Book of Ruth2020 · as Ruth
• Love Type D2019 · as Dr. Elsa Blomgren
• Remember Amnesia2019 · as Dr. Paula Smith
• Golda's Balcony2019 · as Golda Meir
• Angelica2017 · as Nora
• Baked in Brooklyn2016 · as David's Mom
• She's Funny That Way2015 · as Miriam Pendergast
• A Little Game2014 · as Blackstone Head of School
• The Hyperglot2013 · as Elaine
• Heterosexuals2010 · as Remy
• A Buddy Story2010 · as Buddy's Mom
• Everyday the Impossible: Jewish Women in the Partisans2010 · as Narrator
• Acts of Mercy2009 · as Nurse Ruth Baker
• Eavesdrop2008 · as Susie
• A House Divided2008 · as Rebecca Meir
• Love Life2007 · as Hannah
• Love Comes Lately2007 · as Ethel
• Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women2007 · as Self
• O Jerusalem2006 · as Golda Meir
• Lady in the Water2006 · as Mrs. Bubchik
• Just My Luck2006 · as Madame Z
• Alchemy2005 · as Senior Editor
• Life on the Ledge2005 · as Mother
• The Tollbooth2004 · as Ruthie Cohen
• The End of the Bar2002 · as Mrs. Garner
• Kissing Jessica Stein2002 · as Judy Stein
• New World Order2002 · as Sponge-Brush Woman
• The Believer2001 · as Woman in Shul at Rosh Hashannah
• Friends and Family2001 · as Alma Jennings
• Happy Accidents2000 · as Lillian
• The Corruptor1999 · as U.S. Attorney Margaret Wheeler
• A Walk on the Moon1999 · as Lillian Kantrowitz
• Montana1998 · as Greta
• Hudson River Blues1997
• The Real Shlemiel1995 · as Zlateh the Goat / Aunt Sarah / The Matchmaker (voice)
• Love and Betrayal: The Mia Farrow Story1995 · as Eleanor Alter (Uncredited)
• Comfortably Numb1995 · as Victoria Stevens
• Citizen Cohn1992 · as Iva Schlesinger
• A Day in October1991 · as Emma Kublitz
• Saying Kaddish1991
• All That Glitters1990 · as Mrs. Carr
• The Blue Iguana1988 · as Detective Vera
• Silver Bullet1985 · as Older Jane (voice)
• Brewster's Millions1985 · as Marilyn
• Daniel1983 · as Linda Mindish
• Cheaper to Keep Her1981 · as K. D. Locke
• The Idolmaker1980 · as Brenda Roberts
• The Women's Room1980 · as Iso
• Beggarman, Thief1979 · as Monika Wolner
• The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal1979 · as Florence
• Terror Out of the Sky1978 · as Jeannie Devereux
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court1978 · as Sandy
• Nunzio1978 · as Michelle
• World of Darkness1977 · as Clara Sanford
• The Amazing Howard Hughes1977 · as Katharine Hepburn
• Scream, Pretty Peggy1973 · as Agnes Thornton
• Start Without Me— · as Roz
• Broadway: The Next Generation— · as Self
• Dirty Rhetoric— · as Bea
• The Upside of Unrequited— · as Grandma Betty
• Not Dead Yet— · as Paulette
• C-Side— · as Mrs. Klein

All TV Shows (32)

• M.I.A.2026 · as Lena
• Nobody Wants This2024 · as Bina Roklov
• Harlan Coben's Shelter2023 · as Bat Lady
• Scenes from a Marriage2021 · as Miryam Levy
• Stars in the House2020 · as Self
• Star Wars Resistance2018 · as Aunt Z / Random Human (voice)
• Star Wars Resistance2018 · as Aunt Z (voice)
• Salvation2017 · as President Pauline Mackenzie
• Bull2016 · as Judge Garner
• Flesh and Bone2015 · as Ivana
• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend2015 · as Naomi Bunch
• Talking Dead2011 · as Self
• The Walking Dead2010 · as Deanna Monroe
• The Good Wife2009 · as Lena
• Ugly Betty2006 · as Mrs. Varner
• Queens Supreme2003
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent2001 · as Danielle Melnick
• Crossing Jordan2001 · as Elaine Brandau
• A Will of their Own1998 · as Mrs. Rubenstein
• The View1997 · as Self
• Love and Betrayal: The Mia Farrow Story1995 · as Eleanor Alter (uncredited)
• Law & Order1990 · as Danielle Melnick
• Mariah1987 · as Deena Hertz
• L.A. Law1986 · as Lynn Palmer
• The Equalizer1985 · as Samantha Page
• Airwolf1984 · as Sarah Lebow
• Reading Rainbow1983 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Beggarman, Thief1979 · as Monika Wolner
• Holocaust1978 · as Helena Slomová
• The Love Boat1977 · as Susan Ridley
• The Amazing Howard Hughes1977 · as Katharine Hepburn
• Gibbsville1976