Personal Info
Emogeane Coca
Imogene Coca
Acting
Biography
Imogene Fernandez de Coca (November 18, 1908 – June 2, 2001) was an American comic actress best known for her role opposite Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows.
Starting out in vaudeville as a child acrobat, she studied ballet and wished to have a serious career in music and dance, graduating to decades of stage musical revues, cabaret and summer stock. Finally in her 40s she began a celebrated career as a comedienne in television, starring in six series and guesting on successful television programs from the 1940s to the 1990s.
She was nominated for five Emmy awards for Your Show of Shows, win…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
as Self (archive footage)
In the Beginning: The Caesar Years
as Self
Television: The First Fifty Years
as Self (archive footage)
Caesar's Writers
as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: The Movie
as Roxy
Buy & Cell
as Reggie's Mother
The Little Match Girl
as Self - Host
Papa Was a Preacher
as Missy B
Nothing Lasts Forever
as Daisy Schackman
National Lampoon's Vacation
as Aunt Edna
TV Shows
Bobby's World
1 ep.
Monsters
as The Old Woman · 1 ep.
Moonlighting
as Clara DiPesto · 1 ep.
Alice in Wonderland
as Cook · 1 ep.
Mama's Family
1 ep.
Reading Rainbow
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 1 ep.
The Big Show
as Self · 1 ep.
Trapper John, M.D.
1 ep.
Night Gallery
as Wife (segment "The Merciful") · 1 ep.
Love, American Style
as Doctor's wife · 1 ep.