The role set the tone for many of her subsequent appearances - she was a teenaged girl married off to her abusive father's drunken friend in "Wedding in White" (1972) and a terrified bank teller in Sidney Lumet's "Dog Day Afternoon" (1975) - but she was equally skilled at playing characters with grit most notably in her Oscar-nominated role in "Hester Street" as Gitl, a young Jewish émigré who overcomes both her husband's infidelity and the challenges of surviving in turn-of-the-century New York. At 19, she made her feature debut in Mike Nichols' "Carnal Knowledge" (1970) as a hippie girlfriend cast aside by Art Garfunkel. By the time she was 14, she was already a professional performer thanks to her stage debut in a production of "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" with Tammy Grimes.She became a regular on stage throughout her teenage years, appearing opposite her future "Taxi" co-star Christopher Lloyd in "Macbeth" and Joseph Papp's 1974 production of "The Tempest" with Christopher Walken and Sam Waterston. Mother Joy had some experience in this arena, having been a jazz singer, dancer and pianist, and enrolled Kane in the Professional Children's School of Manhattan. After jaunts to Africa, the Caribbean and Europe, the Kanes settled in New York, where their daughter announced her intention to become an actress. Born Carolyn Lynn Kane she traveled extensively throughout her childhood due to her father, Michael, who was an architect who worked for the World Bank.
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