Jeannie Berlin

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

0.909

Gender

Female

Birthday

01-Nov-1949

Age

(77 years old)

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Also Known As
  • Jeannie Brette May

Jeannie Berlin

Biography

Jeannie Berlin (born Jeannie Brette May; November 1, 1949) is an American actress and screenwriter. The daughter of comedienne and director Elaine May, she is best known for her role in her mother's 1972 comedy film The Heartbreak Kid, for which she received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress. More notable film appearances include Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York (1975), Margaret (2011), Inherent Vice (2014), Café Society (2016), The Fabelmans (2022), and You Hurt My Feelings (2023).


Credits

I Figli Chiedono Perché I Figli Chiedono Perché (1972) Character: The Junkie
Italian drama
This Ordinary Thing This Ordinary Thing (2025) Character: Self (voice)
A film about non-Jews who saved Jews during the Holocaust.
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970) Character: Girl in Orphanage (uncredited)
Daisy Gamble, an unusual woman who hears phones before they ring, and does wonders with her flowers, wants to quit smoking to please her fiancé, Warren. She goes to a doctor of hypnosis to do it. But once she's under, her doctor finds out that she can regress into past lives and different personalities, and he finds himself falling in love with one of them.
I'll Be Right There I'll Be Right There (2024) Character: Grace
Wanda wants to take care of everyone in her life. She barely has time for herself, not that she would know what to do with it anyway.
Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York (1975) Character: Sheila Levine
Sheila Levine – an innovative, bright, but painfully introverted individual – arrives in New York City to take an apartment with a partygoing roommate. There, she experiences love and heartache in equal measure.
You Hurt My Feelings You Hurt My Feelings (2023) Character: Georgia
A novelist's longstanding marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears her husband giving his honest reaction to her latest book.
Two on a Bench Two on a Bench (1971) Character: Harriet
An outgoing young girl and a square stockbroker meet on a park bench in Boston and are mistaken for international spies and chased by both sides.
Inherent Vice Inherent Vice (2014) Character: Aunt Reet
In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.
Portnoy's Complaint Portnoy's Complaint (1972) Character: Bubbles Girardi
During a session with his psychoanalyst, Alexander Portnoy rants about everything that is bothering him. His complaints include his childhood and his family with an emphasis on his mother, his sexual fantasies and the problems that he has with women, and his obsessive feelings about his Judaism.
The Baby Maker The Baby Maker (1970) Character: Charlotte
Tish Gray had a baby and gave it up for adoption. She is contacted by a second childless couple who want her to have the husband's baby because of the wife's inability to have children. She accepts but finds that knowing the parents, and developing a relationship with them for the entire pregnancy complicates the simple arrangement.
Vijay and I Vijay and I (2013) Character: Mrs. Korokowski
Wilhelm Wilder (Will) is a talented actor stuck on a New York City children's TV show where he portrays Bad Luck Bunny, a hapless green rabbit. Feeling a failure, he bears his fate with touching self-irony, but grows sulky and petulant when he thinks that his wife, daughter and all his friends have forgotten his 40th birthday. In the confusion following a road accident, all the world believes he is dead. Instead of rectifying the situation, he decides to fulfill a fantasy and attend his own funeral. Here he will learn what everyone really thinks of him. With the aid of his best friend Rad, an Indian restaurant-owner, Will becomes Vijay Singh, a handsome and gentlemanly Sikh, complete with turban and beard. Will confronts a unique problem: everyone likes Vijay, and most of all, he likes Vijay, more than he ever liked himself.
Alice's Restaurant Alice's Restaurant (1969) Character: Extra (Uncredited)
After getting kicked out of college, Arlo decides to visit his friend Alice for Thanksgiving dinner. After dinner is over, Arlo volunteers to take the trash to the dump but finds it closed for the holiday, so he dumps the trash in the bottom of a ravine. This act of littering gets him arrested and sends him on a bizarre journey.
In Name Only In Name Only (1969) Character: Heather
In this romantic comedy, an unwed couple who run a wedding planning business discover, to their horror, that the Justice of the Peace who had officiated their first three weddings was only an actor. Hilarity ensues as they set about trying to get these marrieds married...again.
Faraway Eyes Faraway Eyes (2021) Character: Goldie (Mom)
Michael, a struggling actor, dies right after a bad breakup. He finds himself awakening in a very bright room with a very strange lady and learns that he is in singles Purgatory, where he must find his soul mate in order to cross over to the other side. With limited time to find true love among other recently deceased single New Yorkers, Michael must navigate the new customs of a ghostly dating life... as if dating in life wasn't hard enough already.
Getting Straight Getting Straight (1970) Character: Judy Kramer
Graduate student Harry Bailey was once one of the most visible undergraduate activists on campus, but now that he's back studying for his master's, he's trying to fly right. Trouble is, the campus is exploding with various student movements, and Harry's girlfriend, Jan, is caught up in most of them. As Harry gets closer to finishing his degree, he finds his iconoclastic attitude increasingly aligned with the students rather than the faculty.
Why? Why? (1973) Character: The Junkie
A group therapy session takes place involving a drummer from a suddenly defunct jazz band, an athlete and a pregnant junkie.
The Strawberry Statement The Strawberry Statement (1970) Character: Girl with Clipboard
A college student joins a group of revolutionaries to meet girls but ends up committed to their goals.
The Bride! The Bride! (2026) Character: Greta
A lonely Frankenstein travels to 1930s Chicago to ask groundbreaking scientist Dr. Euphronious to create a companion for him. The two revive a murdered young woman and The Bride is born. But what ensues is beyond what either of them imagined.
Move Move (1970) Character: N/A
A young playwright who writes porno novels to overcome a writer's block, lives the fantasies of one of his books, while trying to move with his wife from one apartment into a larger one.
Move Move (1970) Character: Myrna (uncredited)
A young playwright who writes porno novels to overcome a writer's block, lives the fantasies of one of his books, while trying to move with his wife from one apartment into a larger one.
In the Spirit In the Spirit (1990) Character: Crystal
After her husband loses his job, Marianne moves from Beverly Hills to a nightmare New York City. She hires ditzy psychic Reva to redecorate her apartment, and they end up being chased by a crazed killer.
Café Society Café Society (2016) Character: Rose Dorfman
The story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.
Margaret Margaret (2011) Character: Emily
17-year-old Lisa feels certain that she inadvertently played a role in causing a traffic accident that claimed a woman's life. In her attempts to set things right, she meets with opposition at every step. Torn apart with frustration, she begins emotionally brutalizing her family, her friends, her teachers, and, most of all, herself. She has been confronted quite unexpectedly with a basic truth: that her youthful ideals are on a collision course with the realities and compromises of the adult world.
Bone Bone (1972) Character: The Girl
When a criminal breaks into the Beverly Hills home of a wealthy couple experiencing marital problems, he unwillingly provides the spouses with an unlikely resolution to their conflicts as well as a solution to his own secret.
The Fabelmans The Fabelmans (2022) Character: Hadassah Fabelman
Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.
The Heartbreak Kid The Heartbreak Kid (1972) Character: Lila Kolodny
Three days into his Miami honeymoon with needy and unsophisticated Lila, Lenny meets tall, blonde Kelly. This confirms his fear that he has made a serious mistake and he decides he wants to be with Kelly instead.



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