Zohra Lampert (born 13 May 1937) is an American actress, who has had roles on film, television and stage. She may be best remembered for her role as the title character in the 1971 cult horror film Let's Scare Jessica to Death, as well as starring alongside Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty in the 1961 romance film Splendor in the Grass.
Lampert was born in New York City, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants Rachil Eriss, a draper and hatmaker,...
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Zohra Lampert (born 13 May 1937) is an American actress, who has had roles on film, television and stage. She may be best remembered for her role as the title character in the 1971 cult horror film Let's Scare Jessica to Death, as well as starring alongside Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty in the 1961 romance film Splendor in the Grass.
Lampert was born in New York City, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants Rachil Eriss, a draper and hatmaker, and Morris Lampert, an architect and ironworker. Lampert attended New York's High School of Music and Art, and then the University of Chicago. She was briefly married to actor Bill Alton from 1957 to 1958.
After initially working for several years on stage, eventually reaching Broadway in a Tony-nominated performance in 1961s Look We've Come Through, she scored with a pair of small but noteworthy performances in the films Pay or Die and Splendor in the Grass.
Throughout most of the 1960s and 1970s she kept busy with a series of mostly...
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