An American television and film actress known for playing Alice in the 1970s sitcom Soap – essaying one of the television’s first lesbian characters – as well as for playing Lucille LaRusso, the mother or Ralph Macchio’s starring character, in the films The Karate Kid and The Karate Kid Part III, and in the streaming series Cobra Kai; and Bert Cooper’s and Don Draper’s elderly secretary Ida Blankenship in a recurring role on the series Mad Men.
