Marilyn Sokol

Biography

Marilyn Roberta Sokol was born on February 22, 1944, in the Bronx, New York City, and began her professional career as a belly dancer in 1966. She won an Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress in 1972 and went on to voice Ma Otter in Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (1977) and star in the off-Broadway production Old Jews Telling Stories (2012-2013).