Annie Korzen Biography

Annie Korzen is an American actress, comedian and writer. She is married to Danish film producer Benni Korzen (Babette's Feast). Korzen is a graduate of Bard College in New York as is her son, Jonathan, who works in public relations.

Korzen is particularly well known from the hit television show Seinfeld, appearing in the recurring role of Doris Klompus, an obnoxious neighbor living in Jerry's parents' Florida condo complex. She was also seen on the show's season 4 episode, "The Airport", as an annoying airline passenger bothering Elaine Benes in economy class.

Acting career

Korzen began her career as an actress-writer in New York Off-Broadway theater. She has appeared in numerous television shows including Seinfeld, Whitney (TV series), and The Exes as well as in the motion pictures Tootsie, Stardust Memories, and Nobody's Perfect, which she co-wrote. Most recently, she appeared as John Turturro's mother in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Jason Alexander's sister in Neil Simon's The Prisoner of Second Avenue and will soon be seen in "In Embryo", directed by Danish Actor Ulrich Thomsen.

Korzen has written, composed, and performed two solo shows. "YENTA UNPLUGGED" celebrates Jewish women through comedy and music. It has been produced on three continents: from New York to Sydney to Copenhagen and many points in between. The second show, "The Yenta Cometh" is about the price one pays for speaking out.

She is also a speaker on the lecture circuit with the interactive talks, "The Good Yenta: A Humorous Celebration of Jewish Women" and "Show and Tell with the Bargain Junkie". She also performs an evening of humorous stories called "Tales from the Mouth: Mishaps, Fiascoes, and other Triumphs".

Roger Ebert suggested on Twitter that you see Annie on Old Jews Telling Jokes.

In 1993, Korzen was a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show, in an episode entitled "Ethnic Men Who Reject Their Own Women", a topic Korzen had suggested to the show's producers.

Writing career

Korzen's droll commentaries have been heard on NPR's Morning Edition, and her essays have been printed in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Jewish Journal of Los Angeles, and numerous other publications. She has also done many spoken-word performances at Los Angeles literary salons such as Comedy Central's Sit ?n Spin, Tasty Words, and Sparks and will soon perform with The Moth.

Her book BARGAIN JUNKIE: Living the Good Life on the Cheap, is a humorous how-to book about enjoying an upscale lifestyle on a thriftaholic budget. The book was published by Andrews McMeel Universal.

Seinfeld Episodes

• The Pen (1991)
• The Airport (1992)
• The Raincoats (1994)
• The Cadillac (1996)