Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
5/18/1945
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Also Known As
Candy Azarra
Candice Azzara
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Candice "Candy" Azzara (born May 18, 1945) is an American character actress frequently cast in Italian or Jewish roles.
Azzara was born in Brooklyn, the daughter of Josephine (née Bravo) and Samuel Azzara. She was inspired to pursue acting by the film La Strada and theatre legend Eleanora Duse. She studied with Lee Strasberg and Gene Frankel and soon began appearing off-Broadway and in regional theatres.
Billed as Candy Azzara, she made her Broadway debut in Lovers and Other Strangers in 1968. Additional stage credits include Jake's Women, Cactus Fl...
Known For
Catch Me If You Can
as Darcy
Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
as Sally (as Candy Azzara)
Ocean's Twelve
as Saul Bloom's Girlfriend
In Vino
as Aunt Clara
Little Boy
as Bertha
Fatso
as Lydia
Easy Money
as Rose Capuletti (as Candy Azzara)
Unstrung Heroes
as Joanie
Final Approach
as Elizabeth Foxhaven
Pandemonium
as Bambi
House Calls
as Ellen Grady
The Flight Before Christmas
as Debbie
In Her Shoes
as Sydelle Feller
Divorce Wars: A Love Story
as Sylvia Bemous
Hearts of the West
as Waitress
They Might Be Giants
as Teenage Girl (uncredited)
The Christmas Pageant
as Ethel Clark
Made For Each Other
as Sheila
The Hungry Bachelors Club
as Hannibal Youngblood
Doin' Time on Planet Earth
as Edna Pinsly