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Carol Leifer
Carol Leifer (born 1956 July 27 in Long Island, New York) is an American comedian best known as Jerry Seinfeld's ex-girlfriend, as well as the basis for the character Elaine Benes on the television show, Seinfeld.
Leifer is an accomplished stand-up comedian, writer, producer and actor and has been involved in such television shows as Seinfeld, It's Like, You Know..., Alright Already, and The Larry Sanders Show. In 1988, she had her own special on Cinemax titled Carol Doesn't Leifer Anyone, which was produced by David Letterman. This was shortly followed several more specials, tiled Carol Leifer Comedy Cruise (1989), Really Big Show (1990), and Gaudy, Baudy, and Blue (1992).
No stranger to the late-night TV circuit, she has performed on Late Night With David Letterman 25 times. Carol has also appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Dr. Katz, Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, Hollywood Squares, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Her hosting duties have included four seasons of A&E's Caroline's Comedy Hour, as well as guest stints on Talk Soup and Later.
Her stand-up merits include opening for Jerry Seinfeld and Frank Sinatra. Sinatra was later heard praising Leifer, saying "I wish my mother had been that funny - I wouldn't have had to work so hard."
She is still currently working the stand-up circuit and is supposedly writing an original picture for Dreamworks.
The July 30, 2006 edition of the Los Angeles Times reported that Leifer and her domestic partner, Lori Wolf, had just purchased a new home in the Santa Monica Mountains in anticipation of the couple adopting a baby boy. This is apparently the first public revelation that Leifer is at the very least bisexual. [1] Leifer signed the "We Had Abortions" petition which appears in the October 2006 issue of Ms. Magazine. The petition contains signatures of over 5,000 women declaring they had an abortion and were "unashamed of (the) decision." [2]
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