Sondra James

Born on July 21, 1939, Sondra Weil grew up on Manhattan's Lower East Side. She earned her diploma from the Bronx High School of Science in 1955, followed by a degree from City College with a double major in anthropology and archaeology.
James appeared in films such as Mighty Aphrodite (1995), Taking Woodstock (2009), The Dictator (2012), Don’t Think Twice (2016), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Joker (2019), and Shiva Baby (2020). Her television credits include Law & Order, 30 Rock, Blue Bloods, Ray Donovan, Crisis in Six Scenes, At Home With Amy Sedaris, and What We Do in the Shadows.
She made her stage debut in 1996 with the national tour of Funny Girl, starring Debbie Gibson, and later toured with Valerie Harper in 2002 in The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife.
She also founded Speakeasy, a post-production looping group that provided casting, coordination, and voice performance for series including six seasons of Sex and the City, as well as Bored to Death, Boardwalk Empire, Smash, and Damages. The group also worked on movies such as True Grit, The Reader, The Devil Wears Prada, and The Sixth Sense.
She died on September 12, 2021, at the age of 85 from lung cancer.