{"id":601818,"date":"2026-08-23T04:42:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T04:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/601818\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T04:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T04:42:17","slug":"bunny-levine-dead-actress-in-gilmore-girls-adam-sandler-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/601818\/","title":{"rendered":"Bunny Levine Dead: Actress In ‘Gilmore Girls’ & Adam Sandler Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBunny Levine<\/a>, a librarian who took early retirement and then began acting on such shows as Gilmore Girls and Shameless as well as two Adam Sandler films, has died, according to multiple reports. She was 97.<\/p>\n

\n\tLevine graduated from college in 1951 and became a school librarian in New Jersey, where she worked before deciding to try acting full time. Levine had wanted to perform since childhood.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t know why. I don\u2019t know that many of us could explain why \u2014 it\u2019s just something,\u201d she told her alma mater\u2019s student newspaper, The Daily Evergreen, in 2025. \u201cMaybe it\u2019s in the genes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhatever it was, the diminutive actress (she was 4\u201910\u201d) worked steadily on network television for the better part of four decades, mostly in single episode appearances as a character called \u201cOld Lady,\u201d Kindly Older Woman\u201d or \u201cGrandma.\u201d Among the titles: As the World Turns, Law & Order, Chappelle\u2019s Show, Everybody Loves Raymond, Las Vegas, Private Practice, Ugly Betty, Community, Criminal Minds, 2 Broke Girls, The Mindy Project, Fuller House and Mayans M.C.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn film, one of her first appearances came in 1990\u2019s Cadillac Man, starring Robin Williams and Tim Robbins. She was cast opposite Adam Sandler in Don\u2019t Mess With the Zohan (as \u201cOlder lady in the salon\u201d) and in an uncredited role as the main character\u2019s grandmother in Sandy Wexler.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso on the big screen, Levine played a movie theater cashier in La La Land, Mrs. Grossman in Let Go and Mona opposite June Squibb in 2024\u2019s Thelma.<\/p>\n

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