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Endpoint: Estelle Parsons



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created on: 15/01/2016
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Estelle Margaret Parsons (born November 20, 1927, Lynn, Massachusetts, U.S.) is an American stage, film and television actress, Today Show television presenter, and occasional stage director.
After studying law, Parsons became a singer before deciding to pursue a career in acting. She worked for the television program Today and made her stage debut in 1961. During the 1960s, Parsons established her career on Broadway before progressing to film. She received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Blanche Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde (1967), and was also nominated for her work in Rachel, Rachel (1968).
She worked extensively in film and theatre during the 1970s and later directed several Broadway productions. More recently her television work included playing Beverly Harris on the sitcom Roseanne. She has been nominated five times for the Tony Award (four times for Lead Actress of a Play and once for Featured Actress).

In 2004, Parsons was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.

In 2016, she starred in Israel Horovitz's new play Out of the Mouths of Babes along with Judith Ivey directed by Barnet Kellman at the Cherry Lane Theater in New York City.

While co-starring with fellow Academy Award-winning actor Jack Lemmon in a new Ernest Thompson stage play in Los Angeles, Parsons appeared on the November 1, 1983, episode of The Tonight Show, and told Johnny Carson that Lemmon had been her first boyfriend when they were teenagers in the 1940s.

Parsons married author Richard Gehman in 1953. They had twin daughters, reporter Abbie and actress Martha Gehman, before divorcing in 1958. Her grandson Eben Britton, Abbie's son, is a former player for the Chicago Bears and Jacksonville Jaguars as a guard/tackle, and who was named for his great-grandfather, Estelle's father.

In January 1983, she married her partner of 10 years, Peter Zimroth, who had served as Assistant U.S. Attorney, Assistant District Attorney and court-appointed monitor of the NYPD's policies and practices regarding stop-and-frisk. They adopted a son, Abraham, born in February 1983.[15] Peter Zimroth died on November 8, 2021.
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Mother of : Martha Gehman
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Submitted by : Lo55o (13977)
on : 15/01/2016
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