Character actress Helen Hanft was born in New York City in 1937. She began her career somewhat late in life but has excelled playing intimidating and vindictive types in motion pictures. She frequents the New York stage in mostly Off-Broadway productions even there playing similar roles including everything from distressed mothers to eccentric dying matriarchs to monstrously wicked society women. Occasionally Hanft appears in such popular television fare as Law & Order: Criminal Intent, whic ...[Read Story]