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- Emma Terese is an American actress, playwright, poet, artist, producer. Born in Queens, New York to Patricia Jean Storck, an artist, and Lewis Merenstein, a recording engineer and music producer. She is of Irish, British, German, Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. Her Great Aunt Bessie Berman, nee Merenstein, co-founded Apollo Records, the Harlem-based blues, doo-wop and gospel record label. Great Uncle Charlie Merenstein co-wrote lyrics to the song 'Handyman' by James Taylor and was a co-manager for a young singing duo 'Tom & Jerry', later known as Simon & Garfunkel.
Maternal grandmother, Jean Drach Storck, lived in a house that served as a way station for the Underground Railroad. She was a former art instructor at the Maryland College for Women in Lutherville, MD. An artist, she established the Children's Art Guild in 1930 at the Old Farm House in Homeland. Its programs taught self-expression and art appreciation. Frequent visitors to the studio included F. Scott Fitzgerald's sister, Annabel Fitzgerald, and his daughter, Scottie Fitzgerald.
A descendant of The Daughters of the Revolution (DAR).- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- Studied at HB Studio with Herbert Berghof.
- Featured as a baby on the cover of an Apollo Records release: Mama Sings a Liedele.
- Published as a writer, poet and songwriter.
- An early volunteer for the founders of Gilda's Club - the organization founded in the name of Gilda Radner.
- Plays the guitar, Djembe, kalimba and percussion instruments.
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