Elaine Bromka

Birthday: 6 January 1950, Rochester, New York, USA

Elaine Bromka has been an actress for over thirty years. Film: Cindy, the mom in Uncle Buck; In the Family, Without a Trace. T.V.: Girls, The Sopranos, Sex & the City, E.R., Providence, Dharma &am ...Show More

Elaine Bromka has been an actress for over thirty years. Film: Cindy, the mom in Uncle Buck; In the Family, Without a Trace. T.V.: Girls, The Sopranos, Sex & the City, E.R., Providence, Dharma & Greg, Sisters, all the Law and Order series, Law and Order: Special Victims' Unit, L&O: Criminal Intent, Stella Lombard on Days of Our Lives, the Emmy Award-winning Playing for Time with Vanessa Redgrave and Catch a Rainbow, for which Ms. Bromka herself won an Emmy. She has appeared on Broadway (The Rose Tattoo, I'm Not Rappaport, Macbeth) and off-Broadway (Cloud 9 at the Lucille Lortel, Roundabout's Inadmissible Evidence with Nicol Williamson, the world premiere of Michael Weller's Split at E.S.T. and Candide with the National Theatre of the Deaf.) She has played leads at regional theaters across the country, including Long Wharf, Hartford Stage, Center Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville, ACT/Seattle, O'Neill Playwrights Conference, Shakespeare and Company, McCarter Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theater, George Street Playhouse, and the Folger Theatre Group, in roles ranging from Much Ado's Beatrice to Shirley Valentine, cited as the outstanding solo performance in New Jersey in 1997 by the Star Ledger. After starring opposite Rich Little in The Presidents for P.B.S., where she portrayed eight First Ladies, she went on to co-write with Eric H. Weinberger the one-woman show, Tea for Three: Lady Bird, Pat & Betty, which she has continued to tour nationwide since its successful Off-Broadway run. A member of the Actors Studio and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Smith College, she has also been on the faculty of Smith and NYU's Steinhardt School, and has taught her one-day acting workshops at more than a hundred colleges and prep schools across the country. Hide