Biography
Actress Dinah Manoff is the daughter of actress/director
Lee Grant and playwright Arnold Manoff. A graduate of California School of the Arts, Dinah made her first acting appearance in a PBS special. She won a Tony award as the neurotic daughter of an irresponsible movie screenwriter in
Neil Simon's
I Ought to Be in Pictures; she re-created this role in the 1982 film version, acting opposite
Walter Matthau and her mother
Lee Grant. On television, Manoff played Elaine Lefkowitz on the serial satire
Soap (1978-79), securing a niche in TV history as the first sitcom regular to be "murdered" on-camera. Dinah Manoff later co-starred as Carol Weston opposite fellow
Soap alumnus
Richard Mulligan on the weekly comedy
Empty Nest (1988-1993). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide