Dinah Manoff Movies and Career Information

Dinah Beth Manoff (born January 25, 1958) is an American stage and film actress and television director. In 1975, at the age of 17, Manoff was accepted into the Actors Studio in her hometown of New York City. Her very first project that year was in the independent film Everybody Rides the Carousel, she provided one of the voices in the 7th stage. In 1976, Manoff made her first television appearance on the PBS production of The Stronger. This was followed by a guest appearance on Welcome Back, Kotter. The episode was entitled Sadie Hawkins Day. Dinah made a guest appearance on another show: Visions In 1977 she made a cameo appearance in her first TV movie, Raid on Entebbe. In 1978, Manoff got the role of Elaine Lefkowitz Dallas on the TV sitcom Soap and remained on the show until the end of the year. Manoff appeared in her first—and one of her most recognized—film roles as Marty Maraschino, one of the Pink Ladies in the movie version of Grease, starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, however it was filmed before Manoff's stint on Soap. Dinah's post-Grease appearances in 1979 include $weepstake$, Lou Grant (a spinoff of The Mary Tyler Moore Show), and Mork and Mindy. In 1980,