Erica Yohn


Erica Yohn was an American stage and television actress.
Yohn had many bit parts in film and television, such as Pee-wee's Big Adventure, and television shows, such as Rhoda, ER, Murphy Brown, and Picket Fences. She voiced Mama Mousekewitz in An American Tail and its first two sequels.
From 1971-72, she was a member of the Broadway cast of Lenny, playing various roles, including Sadie Kitchenberg alias Sally Marr, the mother of Lenny Bruce, directed by Tom O'Horgan. She also appeared on Broadway in the original play That Summer - That Fall, an English-language revival of Federico García Lorca's play Yerma, the musical Cabaret, and revivals of such classics as The Alchemist and The Country Wife.

Personal life and death

Born Adella Erica Fishman, the younger child of Jacob and Sonia Fishman, Yohn was married at least two times; she had an elder brother, Marcus. She had one son, Yohn Rosqui, from her final marriage, to fellow actor Tom Rosqui in 1963.
Erica Yohn died on January 27, 2019, aged 90, at her North Hollywood, California home after a sudden illness. Yohn Rosqui announced his mother's death on Facebook.

Partial filmography