Zelda Rubinstein
Acting
Born: 1933-05-28 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography
Zelda Rubinstein (May 28, 1933 – January 27, 2010) was an American actress and human rights activist, known as eccentric medium Tangina Barrons in the Poltergeist film series. Playing 'Ginny', she was a regular on David E. Kelley's Emmy Award winning television series Picket Fences for several seasons. She also made guest appearances in the TV show Poltergeist: The Legacy (1996), as seer 'Christina' and was the voice ofSkittles candies in their long-running 'Taste the Rainbow' ad campaign. Rubinstein was also known for her outspoken activism for little people and her early participation in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
Known For
Hey Arnold!
Darkwing Duck
Darkwing Duck's Mother / Negaduck's Mother (voice)
Tales from the Crypt
Nora
The Pretender
Pawn Shop Lady
Martin
Nurse Froyd
Goof Troop
Madame Zeldarina (voice)
Caroline in the City
Phyllis
Picket Fences
Ginny Weedon
Reading Rainbow
Self - Narrator (voice)
Faerie Tale Theatre
The Old Woman
Matt Houston
Poltergeist
Tangina Barrons
The Flintstone Comedy Show
Atrocia Frankenstone
Poltergeist: The Legacy
Christina
The Frankenstones
Atrocia Frankenston (voice)
Sixteen Candles
Organist
Southland Tales
Dr. Katarina Kuntzler
Poltergeist II: The Other Side
Tangina Barrons
Poltergeist III
Tangina Barrons
Shades of L.A.
Teen Witch
Madame Serina
Wishcraft
Medical Examiner
Anguish
Alice Pressman, the Mother
National Lampoon's Last Resort
Old Hermit
Jennifer Slept Here
Americathon
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
Mrs. Collinwood
E! True Hollywood Story
Frances
Mental Patient
Under the Rainbow
Iris
Commitment to Life
Self (archive footage)
Cages
Liz
Lover's Knot
Woman in Clinic
The Flintstones: On the Rocks
Psychiatrist (voice)
Little Witches
Mother Clodah
USIDent TV: Surveilling the Southland
Self
The Unpredictable Pudgy!
Herself
Guilty as Charged
Edna
The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw
Butterfingers O'Malley