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Kavner played the role of Brenda Morgenstern in the TV show Rhoda. After Rhoda ended, Kavner moved into film. She has appeared in several Woody Allen films including Radio Days (along with Michael Tucker, Mia Farrow, and Diane Wiest); New York Stories (opposite Allen himself); Alice (opposite Farrow again); Shadows and Fog (again opposite Allen); Hannah and Her Sisters (opposite Michael Caine), as well as Deconstructing Harry (opposite Richard Benjamin and Julia Louis-Dreyfus). In 1975, she also received a nomination for her starring role in the daytime special, The Girl Who Couldn’t Lose. She also appeared in Awakenings (opposite Robin Williams and Robert De Niro), The Revenge of The Stepford Wives (1980), and the 1992 Nora Ephron comedy drama This Is My Life. This particular role was intended as her breakout role, but it got middling reviews and did not do well at the box office. Since then Kavner has largely limited herself to supporting roles and voice over work. Most recently, she appeared as Adam Sandler's mother in Click. She has also worked with Tracey Ullman on Tracey's primetime TV comedy show, as well as Tracey Takes On.

Onstage she has played under Burt Reynolds’ direction in Two for the Seesaw with Martin Sheen at Reynolds’ Dinner Theatre in Jupiter, Florida. In Canada, she starred in It Had To Be You, written by Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna.

In Disney's The Lion King 1½ (a.k.a. The Lion King 3: Hakuna Matata), Kavner played Timon's mother.

In The Simpsons, Kavner provides the voices for Marge Simpson, Patty Bouvier, Selma Bouvier, Jacqueline Ingrid "Jackie" Bouvier and Gladys Bouvier. (wikipedia.org)