Known for:	Haunted Honeymoon, The Woman in Red, The Last Detail
Birthday:	28 June 1946, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Height:	5' 6" (1.68 m)

Dated Martin Short during the early seventies, after meeting him during the run of the legendary 1972 Toronto production of Godspell. In addition to Radner and Short, this production also starred Victor Garber, Eugene Levy, Dave Thomas and Andrea Martin, with Paul Shaffer as musical director. Radner's understudy, Canadian comic actress Nancy Dolman began dating Short in 1974 and married him in 1980. One of the members of the Comedy troupe Second City. Autobiography 1989: "It's Always Something" Interred at Long Ridge Cemetery, Stamford, Connecticut, USA. Her mother named her after the title character played by Rita Hayworth in the 1944 film "Gilda." Gene Wilder and Gilda's medical therapist Joanna Ball founded 'Gilda's Club' in 1994. It was Gilda Radner's wish that a place could be established where people of all ages diagnosed with cancer could come together and support one another through the illness. The centers are very homey, with an art center, exercise facility and game rooms. No such place existed when Gilda Radner battled her ovarian cancer. 'Gilda's Club' is now nationwide, with new centers opening up all over the United States. To date the only female player from "Saturday Night Live" to win an Outstanding Performance Emmy for her work on the show. (April 2004) Won a Posthumous Grammy for Best Spoken Word Or Non-Musical Recording in 1990. Was Russian American. Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 499-500. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Classic recurring characters include Roseanne Rosannadanna, Judy Miller, Emily Litella, Baba Wawa (a parody of Barbara Walters), Lisa Loopner, Candy Slice, and Rhonda Weiss.

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