Tovah Feldshuh to Guest Star on USA's COVERT AFFAIRS

According to her Facebook page, Broadway veteran Tovah Feldshuh will guest star on USA's 'Covert Affairs.' She writes: "Latest news: flying to Toronto to shoot COVERT AFFAIRS. I've been asked to play the head of Israeli intelligence. I'm not Israeli, but I hope I'm intelligent-two scenes are in Hebrew!"

An air date for the episdode has not yet been announced.

Tovah Feldshuh has received four Drama Desk Awards, four Outer Critics Circle Awards, the OBIE, the Theater World Awards and the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Actress. She has received Tony nominations for Golda's Balcony, Yentl, Sarava! and Lend Me A Tenor. Following her Broadway run of Golda's Balcony, which was the longest running one-woman show in Broadway history, she toured the production in London, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, and Atlanta.

Her one-woman show Talullah Hallelujah! was chosen one of USA Today's 10 Best Plays of the Year. Feldshuh's television credits include a recurring role as Danielle Melnick on Law and Order and the NBC miniseries Holocaust, both of which earned her Emmy nominations. Her film credits include A Walk on the Moon and the critically acclaimed Kissing Jessica Stein for which she was nominated for a Golden Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her cabaret show Tovah! Crossovah! From Broadway to Cabaret debuted at the Algonquin's Oak Room and her off-Broadway show Tovah: Out of Her Mind toured internationally. 

A teacher at Yale, Cornell, and New York Universities with two honorary Doctorates of Humane Letters, she is a supporter of Seeds of Peace, a non-profit, non-political organization that helps teenagers from regions of conflict. Her charity work has been acknowledged with the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanities Award and the Israel Peace Medal.

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