Actor

Fran Lebowitz

October 27, 1950 · Morristown, New Jersey, USA

Frances Ann Lebowitz (/ˈliːbəwɪts/; born October 27, 1950) is an American author, public speaker, cultural critic, and actor. She is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her New York City sensibilities and her association with many prominent figures of the New York art scene of the 1970s and 1980s, including Andy Warhol, Martin Scorsese, Jerome Robbins, Robert Mapplethorpe, David Wojnarowicz, Candy Darling, and the New York Dolls.

Lebowitz gained fame for her books Metropolitan Life (1978) and Social Studies (1981), which were combined into The Fran Lebowitz Reader in 1994. She has been the subject of two projects directed by Martin Scorsese, the HBO documentary film Public Speaking (2010), and the Netflix docu-series Pretend It's a City (2021).

Notable work

8
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
as Honorary Samantha Stogel
7.3
Law & Order (1990)
as Janice Goldberg
7.6
Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001)
as Janice Goldberg

Often works with

Leslie Hendrix
2 titles together
Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Chris Noth
2 titles together
Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Lila Downs
2 titles together
River of Fundament, River of Fundament

Full filmography · 6

River of Fundament
as Wake Guest
2014
The Wolf of Wall Street
as Honorary Samantha Stogel
20138
Resident Alien
as Writer
1990
The No Show
as Chicken Picken
1987