![]() ![]() Original is an adjective that fit Estelle nicely. “She’s partly me and partly my imagination, but she’s an original and that’s what I’ve been playing all my life-original characters.” “I know this lady I’m playing,” Estelle observed during the show’s spectacular run. ![]() In 1988, she received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her performance in this seminal comedy series. It was precisely this deeply realized mix of comic absurdity and sad truth that made Estelle’s portrayal of Sophia so unforgettable. Older women, as Estelle once observed, need an oversized purse, because they have been relieved of so many possessions in their lives that everything they have managed to hold on to seems to wind up in one. With her tiny frame, huge eyeglasses, and ever-present purse, Estelle cut a comic swath few have forgotten, and in so doing revealed a heartbreaking truth. She also played, perhaps most famously, the wisecrack-slinging mother Sophia Petrillo in Touchstone Television’s The Golden Girls. I’ve played mother to everyone but Attila the Hun.” “I’ve played mothers to heroes and mothers to zeroes,” the Emmy ® Award-winning actress Estelle Getty observed in her 1988 autobiography, If I Knew Then What I Know Now… So What? “I’ve played Irish mothers, Jewish mothers, Italian mothers, Southern mothers, mothers in plays by Neil Simon and Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams. ( Pictured above in the center, Estelle Getty) ![]()
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