Biography
Imogene Coca (born Emogeane Coca) was an American actress. She was born on 18 November 1908 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died on 2 June 2001 in Westport, Connecticut.
She began performing in vaudeville as a child acrobat and studied ballet before moving into stage musical revues, cabaret and summer stock. In her forties she became known as a comedienne on television, starring in series including Your Show of Shows (1950–1954) opposite Sid Caesar.
Coca received five Emmy nominations for Your Show of Shows, winning Best Actress in 1951, and a Peabody Award in 1953. She earned a Tony Award nomination in 1978 for On the Twentieth Century and a sixth Emmy nomination for an episode of Moonlighting (1988). Her film roles included Aunt Edna in National Lampoon's Vacation (1983).
