Rochelle Slovin

Rochelle Slovin is a philanthropist, museum professional, arts advocate, and actor. She is best known as the founder and director of New York's Museum of the Moving Image. She is an alumna of Cornell University and Columbia University.

Her professional history includes being a performer at La Mama and other off-off-Broadway theaters, 1960s; a member of Congresswoman Bella Abzug's campaign staff, 1970; New York City Department of City Planning, 1971-73; staff adviser for cultural affairs, education and libraries to Bronx Borough President Robert Abrams, 1973-76; director, CETA Artists Project of the Cultural Council Foundation, 1976-1980; and the Museum of the Moving Image, 1981-2014. She has since returned to acting.

She is the mother of director/producer Karl Slovin and writer/producer/comedian Eric Slovin, and the mother-in-law of actor Amy Ryan.

• Backstage: Rochelle Slovin