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Also known as Gilda Susan Radner

American actress and comedian (1946–1989)

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It is catalogued under topics including 1946 births, 1989 deaths and 20th-century American actresses.

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Person · Open Library

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  • It's always something

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Acting · Detroit, Michigan, United States

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gilda Susan Radner (June 28, 1946 – May 20, 1989) was an American comedian and actress, best known as one of the original cast members of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, for which she won an Emmy Award in 1978. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gilda Radner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

  • Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music — Self (archive footage)2025
  • You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution... — Self (archive footage)2025
  • Remembering Gene Wilder — Self (archive footage)2024
  • Belushi — Self (archive footage)2020
  • Love, Gilda — Self (archive footage)2018
  • Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead — Self - Actress (archive footage)2015
  • The Women of SNL — Various (archive footage)2010
  • Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women — Self (archive footage)2007
  • Saturday Night Live: The Best of Dan Aykroyd — Various Characters (archive footage)2005
  • Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live — Self2005

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Country
United States
Active from
1946
Active to
1989

Discography

Member of

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Listeners
3,899
Total plays
18,675

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Gilda Susan Radner (June 28, 1946 – May 20, 1989) was an American comedienne and actress, best known for her five years as part of the original cast of the NBC comedy series Saturday Night Live. Radner, who died at 42 of ovarian cancer, became an icon for public awareness of both detection and treatment of the disease. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Gilda+Radner">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Quotes

  • Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.
  • It is so hard for us little human beings to accept this deal that we get. It's really crazy, isn't it? We get to live, then we have to die. What we put into every moment is all we have… What spirit human beings have! It is a pretty cheesy deal—all the pleasures of life, and then death.
  • While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die—whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.

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Key facts

Born
( 1946-06-28 ) June 28, 1946, Detroit , Michigan, U.S.
Died
May 20, 1989 (1989-05-20) (aged 42), Los Angeles , California, U.S.
Occupations
Actress comedian
Years active
1972–1989
Spouses
G. E. Smith ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1980 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1982 ) ​ Gene Wilder ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1984 ) ​
Relatives
Steve Ballmer (second cousin)

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date of death
1989-05-20
Commons category
Gilda Radner
date of birth
1946-06-28
start of work period
1973-00-00
end of work period
1989-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview

Gilda Susan Radner (June 28, 1946 – May 20, 1989) was an American actress and comedian.

Radner was one of the seven original cast members of the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from its inception in 1975 until her departure in 1980. In her sketches on SNL, she played various original characters on the show's Weekend Update segment, such as the elderly, hard-of-hearing Emily Litella and the advice specialist Roseanne Roseannadanna, who rarely offered advice but often provided disgusting, off-topic stories. Radner won an Emmy Award for her performances on the show in 1978. She also portrayed those characters, among others, in her one-woman show Gilda, Live on Broadway in 1979 and later on film in 1980.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gilda Radner” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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