Elaine Hyman

Elaine Hyman is a film and television actress from Detroit, Michigan. She got her start in the movie industry with the 1952 film short Mother Takes a Holiday, where she played Marilyn Merritt.

In 1964, Elaine made her first TV appearance. She played a woman in the "Take Sides With the Sun" episode of East Side/West Side. In 1968 she played 18th vampire victim Ruby Tate in episode 414 of the Gothic soap opera Dark Shadows. In 1974, Elaine played Mrs. McBride in an episode of The Wide World of Mystery entitled "The Spy Who Returned from the Dead". She followed this up in 1975 with the TV movie The Silence where she played Mrs. Pelasi.

Elaine Hyman disappeared from acting for nearly thirty years. She popped up again in 2004 as Dot in "The Test Dream" episode of The Sopranos. She appeared in two episodes of Law & Order between 2002 and 2005, appearing in the episodes "Missing" and "House of Cards". She played Flora in the "Great Barrier" episode of spin-off series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.