By
THE CLASSIC
COMEDY VETERAN
OPENS UP
ABOUT OSCAR
JITTERS, FAMOUS
FRIENDSHIPS AND
A KIND ACT BY
JACK NICHOLSON
FORGET
Carol Kane loves that she
makes people laugh—just
don’t call her a comedian.
“I could never do stand-up,”
the actress, 67, says over tea
in the Manhattan neigh-
borhood where she’s lived
since she was 13. “I consider
myself dramatic and comedic,
therefore I guess a character
actor.” After wrapping up
four hilarious years playing a
street-savvy landlady on Tina
Fey’s Netflix sitcom Unbreak-
able Kimmy Schmidt (there’s
now a Kimmy TV movie in
the works), Kane is back on
the small screen in a darker
role alongside Al Pacino in
the Amazon series Hunters,
about operatives chasing
clandestine Nazis in 1977
New York. Kane first found
success in the edgy films of
the ’70s, appearing in 1971’s
Carnal Knowledge and 1975’s
Dog Day Afternoon before
going on to parts in acclaimed
comedies like 1977’s Annie
Hall and 1987’s The Princess
Bride, along with the hit ’80s
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