Editing Julie Kavner (section)

===Early career===
[[File:Rhoda cast 1977.JPG|alt=Three women standing around a candle in a black-and-white photo|right|thumb|Kavner (left) in a promo for the cast of ''[[Rhoda]]'' in 1977]]
In 1973, Kavner auditioned for a role as one of [[Rhoda Morgenstern]]'s sisters in ''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]''. David Davis, producer of the show, had convinced her to audition for the part, but decided to cast another actress instead.<ref name="Boston">{{Cite news|title=From sitcoms to films, Kavner is true to her characters|work=[[Boston Globe]]|author=Golden, Daniel|date=1991-06-30}}</ref> A year later, Rhoda Morgenstern became the leading character in a spin-off called ''Rhoda''. Kavner was cast in her first professional acting role as Brenda Morgenstern, sister of the eponymous character.<ref name="darling"/> ''Rhoda'' ran on CBS from September 9, 1974, to December 1978. She received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations for [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Comedy Series|Outstanding Continuing Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series]] for playing Brenda, winning in 1978.<ref name="emmys">{{cite web|url=http://www.emmys.com/award_history_search|title=Primetime Emmy Awards Advanced Search|publisher=Emmys.org|access-date=2009-02-10|archive-date=September 4, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130904172046/http://www.emmys.com/award_history_search|url-status=live}}</ref> She also received four [[Golden Globe Award]] nominations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.goldenglobes.org/browse/member/29391 |title=Julie Kavner |publisher=Hollywood Foreign Press Agency |access-date=2009-02-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080830042711/http://www.goldenglobes.org/browse/member/29391 |archive-date=2008-08-30 }}</ref> In 1975, she received [[Daytime Emmy Award]] nomination for her starring role in the daytime special ''The Girl Who Couldn't Lose''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/julie-kavner/bio/159366|title=Julie Kavner|work=[[TV Guide]]|access-date=2009-02-13|archive-date=December 2, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202135628/https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/julie-kavner/bio/159366/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Following ''Rhoda'', Kavner had a guest appearance on ''[[Taxi (TV series)|Taxi]]''<ref name="Winding">{{cite news|title=Kavner's long and winding Rhoda|url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/621566|work=[[Toronto Star]]|date=2009-04-21|access-date=2009-04-21|author=Salem, Rob|archive-date=October 19, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019181319/http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/621566|url-status=live}}</ref> and appeared in the 1985 comedy ''[[Bad Medicine (film)|Bad Medicine]]''<ref>{{Cite news|title='Bad Medicine' overdoses on bad jokes|date=1985-11-26|author=Christiansen, Richard|work=[[Chicago Tribune]]}}</ref> as well as the 1987 film ''[[Surrender (1987 American film)|Surrender]]'', both of which were box office failures (and also starred [[Steve Guttenberg]]).<ref name="Lift"/> She appeared in the television movies ''[[Revenge of the Stepford Wives]]'', ''No Other Love'' and ''A Fine Romance'', and shot a television pilot.<ref name="darling"/> She also starred in several stage plays, including a play called ''It Had to Be You''<ref name="Lift"/> at a dinner theater in Canada, ''Particular Friendships'' in New York City in 1981,<ref>{{cite news|title=Theater: 'Particular Friendships', A First Play|url=http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?pagewanted=print&res=9F0CEFDC1539F932A35753C1A967948260|work=The New York Times|date=1981-10-01|access-date=2009-02-13|author=Rich, Frank|archive-date=July 29, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120729065641/http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?pagewanted=print&res=9F0CEFDC1539F932A35753C1A967948260|url-status=live}}</ref> and ''Two for the Seesaw'', directed by [[Burt Reynolds]].<ref name="Lift"/> [[Woody Allen]] first saw Kavner one night while he was watching ''Rhoda'' in the 1970s. He thought that she was remarkable and later offered her a role in his 1986 film ''[[Hannah and Her Sisters]]''.<ref name="Boston"/> Kavner agreed, and credits Allen and the film with rejuvenating her career.<ref name="Lift">{{Cite news|title=Coming into her own – Kavner's sagging career got needed lift from Allen films|work=[[Syracuse Herald-Journal]]|author=Vadeboncoeur, John E.|date=1992-03-19}}</ref>

Kavner was then cast as a sidekick to [[Tracey Ullman]] in ''[[The Tracey Ullman Show]]'', which debuted on Fox in 1987. Kavner described the show as, "like being back in school, a chance to play a wide variety of characters, some really vicious people, to not rest on laurels, to not play it safe".<ref name="darling"/> Kavner commented, "What I do is not mimicry or an impersonation, but more of an assimilation. [On ''The Tracey Ullman Show''] we did a lot of looking at people to find out who<!-- sic --> to base our characters on. We did our homework on our lunch hour."<ref name="darling"/> She received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations for [[Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program|Best Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program]].<ref name="emmys"/>