The Queens, New York native began her professional career as a teenager when she performed as a background singer and commercial Actress while attending Martin Van Buren High School in Queens Village. She graduated from Ithaca College in 1970.
Graff is the daughter of Jerry Graff, a member of the musical group The Pied Pipers. While performing in Grease she met and married Composer Ben Lanzarone, and they have one daughter, Nikka, born 1983. Graff is the older sister of Tony Award-nominated actor, film Producer, Writer, film Director and former Short Circus member Todd Graff and cousin of Tony winner Randy Graff. She serves as the spokesman for the AMC Cancer Research Center.
Graff's Broadway credits include Promises, Promises, Grease, and I Love My Wife. Her television work includes Barnaby Jones, Laverne & Shirley, Mork & Mindy, Three's Company, Lewis & Clark, and St. Elsewhere. From 1985 until 1990, she played what is possibly her best known role, Marsha Owens, the wife of Bob Uecker's character, George, in the sitcom Mr. Belvedere.
