![]() ![]() In 1974, Lorne Michaels hired 22-year-old Newman for a Lily Tomlin special, impressed with her work as founder and original member of The Groundlings. ![]() Newman cites Eve Arden, Madeline Kahn and Richard Pryor as her first major influences, saying "They led me into my life of comedy, they led me into understanding 'The Art of Play.'" Saturday Night Live At the same time, Newman was working for a booking agent who worked with rock bands, typing up contracts. Committed to continue performing, she was a founding member of the pioneering comedy improvisational group The Groundlings. īy the age of 19, Newman returned to the United States, and moved to Los Angeles, where she did a brief stint at a secretarial school. She was not accepted after the second round of auditions for all four schools, so she went to Paris to study mime with Marcel Marceau for a year. After finishing high school she auditioned for four acting schools in England including the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and Bristol Old Vic. At the age of 17, Newman lost her virginity to American singer and guitarist Johnny Winter. Newman took her first improvisational theatre classes when she was 15. The song hit #5 on the UK charts in 1978. The song " Never Let Her Slip Away," written and recorded by Andrew Gold, was about Newman. Newman and Einbinder have two children, Spike and actor and comedian Hannah. Newman married actor-writer-director Chad Einbinder in 1991 their marriage ended after 25 years. Newman attended Beverly Hills High School in Beverly Hills, California and graduated from there in 1970. ![]() Her sister, Tracy Newman, is an Emmy Award-winning television writer. She is the youngest of four children and has a twin brother Paul. Newman was born on March 2, 1952, in Los Angeles, California, the granddaughter of a cattle rancher from Arizona. She is the younger sister of writer and musician Tracy Newman and the mother of actress and comedian Hannah Einbinder. In 2021 her memoir May You Live in Interesting Times was released on Audible. She is also a voice actor with appearances in both TV shows and movies, including many Pixar films like Finding Nemo, WALL-E, Up, and Inside Out. She has appeared in movies like Stardust Memories, Problem Child 2, Coneheads, and The Flintstones. In 2017, she and the rest of the original cast members of SNL were among the honorees of Television Academy's Hall of Fame. The next year Newman became one of the original cast members of Saturday Night Live, working there from 1975 to 1980 and creating characters like Connie Conehead, proto- Valley girl Sherry, and Christie Christina. She was first hired by Lorne Michaels for a Lily Tomlin TV special in 1974. She then moved to Los Angeles and became a founding member of comedy improvisational group The Groundlings. After graduating, she studied mime with Marcel Marceau for a year in Paris. She took an interest at improv in high school. Newman was part of the original cast of NBC's long-running sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from its inception in 1975 until her departure in 1980. Laraine Newman (born March 2, 1952) is an American actress, comedian, and writer.
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