This Day in Halloween: Former lab technician and "Poltergeist" actress Zelda Rubinstein is born in Pittsburgh in 1933. / Illustration by Cesar Arias
Zelda Rubinstein is born in Pittsburgh in 1933. After years as a lab technician in a blood bank, her second career as an actress kept her worked steadily from the 1980s to the 2000s, but she is known primarily for her roles in the Poltergeist films. She died in 2010.
