For 25 years, Bunny Levine worked as a school librarian while holding onto her childhood dream of becoming an actress. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Born in New Jersey in 1928, she earned master\u2019s degrees from New York University and Columbia University before retiring in 1985.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nearly 60 years old, Levine began auditioning and soon appeared in television and film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her credits included Cadillac Man<\/em>, Law & Order<\/em>, Gilmore Girls<\/em>, Everybody Loves Raymond<\/em>, Shameless<\/em>, Ugly Betty<\/em>, Criminal Minds<\/em>, and La La Land<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Levine and her husband founded Actors Connection in New York City in 1991, helping aspiring performers with coaching, networking, and career guidance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Levine continued acting into her 90s, including a role in the 2024 film Thelma<\/em>. She died peacefully in her sleep at 97. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Her life showed that \u201cdreams do not have an expiration date\u201d<\/strong> and that it is never too late to pursue a passion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Dream Delayed For 25 years, Bunny Levine worked as a school librarian while holding onto her childhood dream of becoming an actress. Born in New Jersey in 1928, she earned master\u2019s degrees from New York University and Columbia University before retiring in 1985. Starting Acting at 60 Nearly 60 years old, Levine began auditioning…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19523,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19521\/revisions\/19523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Helping Other Actors<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
A Lasting Legacy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n