
Connie Sawyer (born Rosie Cohen, November 27, 1912, in Pueblo, Colorado; died January 21, 2018, in Woodland Hills, California) was an American stage, film, and television actress of Romanian-Jewish descent, affectionately nicknamed "The Clown Princess of Comedy." She grew up in Oakland, California, began performing in vaudeville as a child, and appeared on variety television in the late 1940s and 1950s. Her first film role came at age 46 as Miss Wexler in Frank Capra's A Hole in the Head (1959, with Frank Sinatra and Edward G. Robinson), a part she had originated on Broadway. Over her nine-decade career she accumulated more than 140 credits and was still working past the age of 100, appearing on NCIS: Los Angeles (2013) and opposite Zooey Deschanel in New Girl (2014). Her most notable film credits include Mrs. McBee in The Way West (1967), a Woman at the Hanging in True Grit (1969, with John Wayne), a role in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969), Mrs. Levi in The Man in the Glass Booth (1975, with Max von Sydow), a heavenly customer in Oh, God! (1977, with Goldie Hawn), Gitel in And Justice for All (1979, with Al Pacino), a Documentary Couple in When Harry Met Sally... (1989, with Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan), the woman who steals Jim Carrey's wallet in Dumb and Dumber (1994), a role in Out of Sight (1998, with George Clooney and Steve Martin), Faye Belogus in Pineapple Express (2008, with Seth Rogen and James Franco), and Nana Bebe in Lovesick (2014, with Matt LeBlanc). On television she appeared in Seinfeld (1989), Will & Grace, ER (2006), The Office (2005), How I Met Your Mother (2007), 2 Broke Girls (2012), and Ray Donovan (2013, as James Woods's mother), with earlier credits in The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970, 1975), Hawaii Five-O, Dynasty (1981), Murder, She Wrote (1986, 1991), Home Improvement (1991), and Archie Bunker's Place (1979).
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The titles people know Connie from.
IMDb rating of each title on Cineora, by year.
as Bebe
as Oldest Woman in the World · 1 episode
as Elderly Lady · 1 episode
as Shopper · 1 episode
as Elderly Airport Passenger (uncredited)
as Ida · 1 episode
as Faye Belogus
as Old Lady
as Old Lady · 1 episode
as Nana · 1 episode
as June · 1 episode
as Hazel
as Lady in Market
as Mrs. Yudelson · 3 episodes
as Old Woman · 1 episode

as Mrs. Connor · 1 episode
as Aunt Pearl · 1 episode
as Old Elevator Lady
as Margaret · 1 episode

as Diner Waitress
as Mrs. Otis
as Documentary Couple
as Old Woman · 1 episode
as Viney Hunt

as Mrs. Duke Thorpe
as Woman on Elevator · 1 episode
as Helen · 1 episode

as Martha the Bag Lady
as Mrs. Kowalski · 1 episode
as Gitel
1 episode
as Mom

as Cleaning Lady
as Mrs. Green

1 episode
as Woman · 1 episode

as Female Guard (uncredited)
as Waitress (uncredited)
as Talkative Woman at Hanging (uncredited)
as Sylvia Heller · 1 episode
as Mable · 1 episode

as Laura Sofina
as Mrs. McBee
as Smoker Woman · 1 episode

as Miss Wexler
as Mrs. Lewis · 1 episode
as Mrs. Lubner · 1 episode
1 episode
as Mrs. McCall · 1 episode
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