Madeline Gail Kahn (nee Wolfson September 29 1942 - 3 December, 1999) was an American actress as well as a comedian, well-known for her comedic roles in films by Peter Bogdanovich and Mel Brooks and Mel Brooks, such as What's Up, Doc? (1972), Young Frankenstein (1974), High Anxiety (1977), History of the World, Part I (1981) as well as her Academy Award-nominated roles in Paper Moon (1973) and Blazing Saddles (1974).Kahn made her Broadway debut in Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1968, and also received Tony Award nominations for the play In the Boom Boom Room in 1974 and for the production of the musical On the Twentieth Century in 1978. She was the lead character Madeline Wayne on the short-lived sitcom Oh Madeline (1983-84) and won the Daytime Emmy Award in 1987 for an ABC Afterschool Special. Following a third Tony Award nomination in 1989 for the revival of the play Born Yesterday, she won the 1993 Tony Award as Best Actress in a Play. Her other film roles included The Cheap Detective (1978), City Heat (1984), Clue (1985), and Nixon (1995).
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