Background
Fernhoff was born in New York City, the daughter of Austrian-Jewish immigrant parents Doctor William and Tola Fernhoff.
Fernhoff was born in New York City, the daughter of Austrian-Jewish immigrant parents Doctor William and Tola Fernhoff.
Fernhoff studied acting with Lee Strasberg.
She often performs plays that deal with Jewish themes. These plays include Jerusalem Story, a play that relates the story of the kidnapping of a young boy in Israel for political gain, Mistress Davidson"s Story, which revolves around an American teacher in an Israeli school that is taken-over by terrorists and Shadows, the story of a Russian Jewish choreographer who through her personal story, pleads for asylum for imprisoned Jews in the AntiSemitic Soviet Union.
"Snow People", a play adapted by Av Inlender from his novel, Zoa, also stars Fernhoff, as Anna Blake, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor who discovers fifty years later the Nazi"s who terrorized her family.
In 2006 Fernhoff performed Snow People at Colorado State University as a special guest for their Holocaust Awareness Week. She has performed these one-person shows at theaters, colleges and Synagogues across the United States, in Europe and Israel.
In addition to acting, Fernhoff directs and coaches. Fernhoff is fluent in Hebrew and German.
In her youth she performed classic roles in Israel at the Cameri Theater such as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet.
Her other credits include starring roles in The Glass Menagerie, Come Back, Little Sheba, Hamlet, The Piano Teacher, and The Quickening.