Neva Small
Actress

Neva Small Net Worth

Small has appeared in numerous films and television shows throughout her career. She is best known for her role as Golde in the 1971 film adaptation of Fiddler on the Roof.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actress, Soundtrack
Birth Day November 17, 1952
Birth Place  New York City, New York, United States
Age 71 YEARS OLD
Birth Sign Sagittarius
Occupation Actress, singer
Years active 1963–present
Known for Chava in Fiddler on the Roof (1971 film)
Spouse(s) Dr. Fred Fenig

💰 Net worth: $100K - $1M

Biography/Timeline

1938

Neva Small was born in New York City to Seldan and Berma Small. She grew up in Central Park West. Her mother graduated in the first class of Harpists at Juilliard in 1938, and played in an all-female orchestra at the Waldorf Astoria.

1963

Small began singing in an extracurricular after-school program, and acted in Hebrew school and in the Jewish Theater for Children, where she was an understudy for Don Scardino. At age 10, she played Beverly Sills' daughter in The Ballad of Baby Doe (1963) at the New York City Opera.

1964

Small made her Broadway debut in the 1964 musical Something More! Other early Broadway stage credits include The Impossible Years (1965–1967), Henry, Sweet Henry (1967), Frank Merriwell (1971), and Something's Afoot (1976).

1966

In 1966, at the age of 14, Small recorded four singles for the MGM Records label.

1968

Her early Off-Broadway performances include Ballad for a Firing Squad (1968) and Show Me Where the Good Times Are (1970). She turned down a part in Godspell to play the title character in F. Jasmine Addams, the first musical staged at Circle in the Square Theatre, in 1971. Based on the novel The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers, the one-act play was cancelled after six performances.

1971

Small made her film debut as Chava, the third of Tevye's five daughters, in the 1971 film adaptation of the long-running Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof. Her character leaves the Jewish faith to marry a gentile. While Small had wanted to audition for the original Broadway show, she was told by the play's producers that she "wasn't Jewish enough". She screen-tested for the characters of both Hodel and Chava, and won the latter role. Since she was under 18, she required a guardian during the filming; her older sister Gail assumed this role.

2004

In 2004, Small recorded her only solo album, My Place in the World (Small Penny Enterprises Records). This compilation of melodies that she sang during her stage and film career is noted for including "many generally obscure show tunes".

2007

Small has continued to act and sing in musical productions. In 2007 she starred in the one-woman show Neva Small: Not Quite an Ingenue, a theatrical revue based on her musical career, at The Actors' Temple.

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