Jennifer Warren (born August 12, 1941) is an American actress and film director.
Born in the Greenwich Village section of New York City, Warren graduated from Elisabeth Irwin High School. She made her Broadway debut in 1972 in 6 Rms Riv Vu, for which she won the Theatre World Award. She also appeared in the short-lived P. S. Your Cat Is Dead!.
Warren's film credits include Slap Shot (as the fed-up wife of hockey coach Paul Newman), Night Moves, Ice Castles, "The Swap" (1969) and Life Stinks. She has directed two features, The Beans of Egypt, Maine (1994) and Partners in Crime (2000). She was listed as one of the twelve "Promising New Actors of 1975" in John Willis' Screen World, Volume 27.
Warren's small screen credits include numerous made-for-television movies and guest appearances on The Bob Newhart Show, Kojak, Cagney and Lacey, Hotel, Hooperman, and Murder, She Wrote, among others.
Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1975" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 27.
Sometimes mistaken for the singer/actress who appeared as a regular on "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" in the 1960s. That performer, who was billed on that series and on her recordings as "Jennifer" and sometimes as "Jennifer Warren" (and whose real name is Jennifer Warnes), returned to her legal name for professional use to avoid the conflict of identical names.
A graduate of the University of Wisconsin.
Priot to acting in movies put in ten years worth of stage work, often appearing with the Tyrone Guthrie theater group in Minneapolis.
