Dinah Manoff

Dinah Manoff is an award-winning actor and director. She has written for both stage and television and had several short stories presented at the prestigious writer’s forum Spoken Interludes and recorded for KCRW.

She has had numerous roles on stage and in film, among them, Grease, Ordinary People, and Child’s Play. Dinah has starred in the television series, Soap, Empty Nest, and State of Grace.

She received a Tony award for her role in Neil Simon’s play, I Ought to Be in Pictures, and won the prestigious L.A. Theater award for her stage adaptation and direction of her father’s novel, A Telegram for Heaven.

Dinah is the daughter of actress/director Lee Grant and the late writer Arnold Manoff; she resides with her husband and sons in the Seattle area.

The Real True Hollywood Story of Jackie Gold is her first novel.