- Performed a one-woman, two-character play "Call Waiting" in 1994 and again in 2001. She later filmed it in 2004. The 87-minute film won the Best Comedy Jury Prize at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
- Her late mother, Nina Friedman Abady, was a Selma, Alabama civil rights activist who walked with Martin Luther King in the '60s. She had to endure cross-burnings on her Virginia front lawn. More tragically, the family suffered the loss of their husband and father at the age of 38.
- Her older sister Josephine R. Abady was a prominent artistic director of the Cleveland Playhouse (1988-1994) and Circle in the Square Theater (1994-1996). A noted stage producer, director and theater owner, Abady resisted employing her younger sister because they were related. This caused resentment and sibling friction for a period of time until Abady was diagnosed with breast cancer. Abady battled the disease for several years and died on May 25, 2002, at age 52. The Los Angeles-based Caroline returned to New York frequently to aid during her sister's illness. Aaron did appear under her sister's stage direction in "The Boys Next Door," co-starring David Strathairn and John Amos. Abady also cast Aaron in To Catch a Tiger, a 1994 AFI film which told the story of their mother's civil rights work. Caroline played their mother in the film and Abady's husband, Michael Krawitz, wrote the screenplay.
- Versatile and acclaimed stage actress of Broadway ("Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean," "Social Security" and "I Hate Hamlet") who appeared as a character actress on film and TV. She was a main ensemble player in several of Woody Allen's films during the late '80s and '90s, and essayed many of his Jewish relatives, neighbors and/or friends in traditional New York settings.
- She has appeared in four films directed by Woody Allen: Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), Alice (1990), Husbands and Wives (1992) and Deconstructing Harry (1997).
- She played Woody Allen's sister in both Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) and Deconstructing Harry (1997).
- Her father was of Lebanese Jewish descent and her mother was of Hungarian Jewish descent.
- She studied drama at the HB Studios in Greenwich Village in New York City.
- Has two children, Ben and Sydney.
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