Bunny Levine has had a passion for entertaining from her earliest memory. At the age of two, she subjected all her relatives to her rendition of the song "When I Grow Too Old to Dream" at every possible opportunity. Playing with her sister and friends in pre-school days, her favorite game was a simulation of the performances of the current Hollywood stars, replete with screams and fainting, in the mode of the times. Her greatest regret was that she, unlike her contemporary Shirley Temple, had not been discovered in dance class. By third grade she wrote, directed and starred in the epic, "Debbie's Diary." A year or so later, with increased maturity, she limited her contributions to no more than two of the three elements. All through elementary school and high school, she played either the lead or a character role in school and local productions. Transferring colleges on her marriage after sophomore year made her rethink the wisdom of a short, young, character woman gaining fame and fortune in the field, so she switched majors from Theater Arts, but continued to act, and to work on the college radio station. Already pregnant upon graduation, she 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. Storytelling and book talks helped fill her performing aspirations. Foolishly, she would not participate in community theater, thinking of herself as too much of a professional. Upon early retirement, she began taking acting classes, going on auditions, and gradually immersing herself totally in the fabulous, mad world of acting. Soon she was a member of all the unions and began booking commercials, roles on soaps and episodics, as well as films. Upon her beloved husband, Bernie's, death, she moved from the New York area to the LA market, and continued studying, booking, and striving. Among her credits are Law & Order (1990), The Jimmy Show (2001), Everybody Loves Raymond (1996), _Gilmore Girls_, the soon-to-be-released Charles Busch film, and Las Vegas (2003). She considers herself the most energetic and agile septuagenarian in the field and the oldest living student (her philosophy being that you can never stop learning and exercising the acting muscle).
2024
as Dorothy
2024
as Mona
2023
as Bella
2023
as Sister Ollie
2023
as Prospective Juror
2021
as Enid
2020
as Muriel
2020
as Diane
2019
as Old Lady
2018
2018
as Trudy
2018
as Grandma
2018
as Mrs. Vanderhooven
2017
as Yaya Westbrook
2016
as Nana Shickles
2016
as Old Lady
2015
as Elderly Patient
2014
as Old Woman
2014
as Mildred
2014
as Estelle Markowitz
2014
as Nana
2012
as Bryant's Grandmother
2012
as Woman on Pier
2011
as Mrs. Grossman
2011
as Shirley
2011
as Helen
2011
as Enid
2011
as Mrs. McCurdy
2010
as Rachel
2010
as Mrs. Kusnitz
2009
as Sylvia Goldberg
2009
as Pierce's Mom (voice)
2009
as Claire Cranston
2008
as Older Lady in Salon
2007
as Max's Neighbor
2001
as Mrs. Munson
2000
as Mrs. Thompson
1996
as Hilda
1990
as Irene Drummond
1990
as Woman Customer
1988
as Ruby
as Oma