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Picon rose to stardom in Yiddish theater and film before crossing into English-language character work, carrying a Yiddish-speaking audience's favorite performer into the American mainstream. She is best remembered now for playing Yente the Matchmaker in the 1971 film of Fiddler on the Roof, a role that introduced the Yiddish stage tradition she came from to a far wider audience than it had ever reached before.