Gilda Radner (28 June, 1946 – 20 May, 1989) was an American comedian and actress, best known for her five years as part of the original cast of the NBC comedy series Saturday Night Live. Radner, who died at 42 of ovarian cancer, became an icon for public awareness of both detection and treatment of the disease.

Born to well-to-do Jewish-American parents, Herman Radner and Henrietta Dworkin, in Detroit, Michigan, Radner graduated from the prestigious University Liggett School in Grosse Pointe in 1964, and then studied drama at the University of Michigan, where she began her broadcasting career as the weather girl for college radio station WCBN. She moved to Toronto, Canada and had her first professional stage experience in a production of Godspell, after which she joined the Toronto Second City comedy troupe.

Radner was a featured player on the National Lampoon Radio Hour, a half-hour comedy program syndicated to some 600 U.S. radio stations from 1973 to 1975. Fellow cast members included John Belushi, Richard Belzer, Chevy Chase and Bill Murray.

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