‘Between The Temples’ Star Carol Kane Explains How She Stayed On Top Of Her Game During Her Long, “Peculiar” Career: “Showbiz Is A Lot Of Quicksand”

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Carol Kane received her first awards nomination 50 years ago next year. It was a big one, too; after just five years in film, working with directors of the caliber of Mike Nichols and Hal Ashby, Kane was feted by the Academy for her starring role in Joan Micklin Silver’s period drama Hester Street, a film she made in 1975 alongside Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon.

Primetime Emmy awards followed in the early ’80s, for James L. Brooks’ hit show Taxi, in which she played the wife of Andy Kaufman’s character Latka Gravas.

Awards-wise, Kane has simmered throughout her career while never quite boiling over. Instead, she focused on the work—as a young actress, she caught the tail end of the New Hollywood of the ’60s, and then quite effortlessly segued into the commercial studio mainstream of the ’80s, making Scrooged in 1988 with Bill Murray.

In the ’90s, she hitched her wagon to the new wave of independents that were breaking out from the Sundance Film Festival, and it is this kind of risk-taking that has brought her, after all this time, back to the awards conversation: Last week she took the Best Supporting Actress Award at The New York Film Critics Circle Award, and next month—circumstances in California permitting, obviously— she will contend at the Independent Spirit Awards.