Wild Cat

A fiercely original eccentric who plays entirely by her own rules.

Carol Kane has built a decades-long career on her own utterly singular terms — her wide-eyed, otherworldly screen presence and distinctly offbeat choices (from Taxi to The Princess Bride to Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) signal someone who operates on a completely private wavelength. She is notoriously private, intensely creative, and unpredictable, embodying the wild-cat's aloof independence and comfort-seeking quirkiness. Her performances have a feline strangeness to them — warm when she chooses to be, startling when she doesn't, and always unmistakably, stubbornly herself.