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Bunny Levine, a prolific actress who appeared in three Adam Sandler movies and had guest roles in "Jury Duty," "Gilmore Girls," "Chappelle’s Show" and "Shameless," has died.
Bunny Levine, a prolific character actress who appeared in three Adam Sandler movies and had guest roles inJury Duty,Gilmore Girls, Chappelle’s ShowandShameless, has died.
Levine’s representative, Mike Eisenstadt, toldNBC Los Angelesthat the actress died Tuesday at her home in Tarzana, Calif. She was 97. According toNBC LA, the Los Angeles Police Department responded to a report about an unresponsive person at Levine’s residence and believes that the actress died from natural causes.
According toNBC LA, Levine was a school librarian before she decided to get into acting. Born Bernice Levine on Dec. 22, 1928, in East Orange, N.J., Levine’s first screen role was in 1988, when she was hired to play a supporting role for the B-horror movieSlime City.
After that, Levine appeared in more than 100 screen projects, including roles in the Sandler moviesYou Don’t Mess with the Zohan,You Are So Not Invited to My Bat MitzvahandSandy Wexler(in an uncredited role).
More recently, Levine starred opposite June Squibb and Richard Roundtree in the 2024 action comedyThelma. In the 2023 Freevee/Prime Video reality/scripted comedyJury Dury, Levine played a prospective juror in two episodes.
Throughout her nearly four-decades-long career, Bunny Levine appeared in dozens of guest roles on television. Among them wereLaw & Order,As the World Turns,Chappelle’s Show,Gilmore Girls,Ugly Betty,Private Practice,Gary Unmarried,Community, Criminal Minds, Men of a Certain Age, 2 Broke Girls, Happy EndingsandRaising Hope.
Additionally, Levine played guest roles inHave You Met Miss Jones?, Southland, The Middle, New Girl, Mulaney, Bad Judge, Workaholics, The Mindy Project, Fuller House, Shameless, Mayans, M.C., Dave, The UpshawsandLast Week Tonight with John Oliver.
Levine also appeared in such films asCadillac Man, A Thousand Words, La La Land, SacramentoandThe Invisible Raptor.The actress’ last film role was in the 2026 indie David Dastmalchian horror thrillerThe Cure.
According to her self-authored IMDb profile, Levine “put her acting aspirations on the back burner for 25 years, working primarily as a school librarian, to help her underpaid college professor husband raise their three children.”
Bunny Levine’s husband, Bernard Levine, died in 2003.
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