Joanna Merlin Dies: Original ‘Fiddler On The Roof’ Tzeitel, Longtime Judge On ‘Law & Order: SVU’ Was 92

Joanna Merlin, whose acting career stretched from Broadway (she was the original Tzeitel in Fiddler On The Roof), film (she played the dance teacher Miss Berg in Alan Parker’s 1980 film Fame) and TV (Law & Order: SVU‘s Judge Lena Petrovsky on dozens of episodes) has died. She was 92. Her death was…

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