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An actress and comedian who built her name on the ABC sketch series Fridays (1980-1982), an early showcase for a generation of comic performers, before reaching a much wider audience as the voice of both Didi Pickles and her mother Grandma Minka on Nickelodeon's Rugrats and All Grown Up! She also had a regular role in the Fox sitcom Parker Lewis Can't Lose in the 1990s.