Estelle Margaret Parsons (born November 20, 1927 in Marblehead, Massachusetts) is an Academy Award-winning American theater, film and television actress of Jewish descent. November 20 is the 324th day of the year (325th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Marblehead, founded in 1629, is a town located in Essex County, Massachusetts. ... Academy Awards The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent film awards in the United States. ... For other usages see Theatre (disambiguation) Theater (American English) or Theatre (British English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle — indeed... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ...

After graduating from Connecticut College in 1949, Parsons initially studied law and then worked as a singer with a band before settling on an acting career in the early 1950s. Moving to New York, she worked as a writer, producer and commentator for The Today Show. Connecticut College is a coeducational, private liberal arts college located in New London, Connecticut. ... Law (from the late Old English lagu of probable North Germanic origin) in politics and jurisprudence, is a set of rules or norms of conduct which mandate, proscribe or permit specified relationships among people and organizations, intended to provide methods for ensuring the impartial treatment of such people, and provide... // Events and trends This map shows two essential global spheres during the Cold War in 1959. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ... Today (commonly referred to as The Today Show or NBC Today) is a morning news and talk show airing on the NBC television network in the United States. ...

She has received Tony Award nominations for her work in The Seven Descents of Myrtle (1968), And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little (1971), Miss Margarida's Way (1978) and Mornings at Seven (2002). What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ...

Her film career includes an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for Bonnie and Clyde (1967), and a nomination for Rachel, Rachel (1968). She also received a BAFTA Award nomination for her role in Watermelon Man (1970), and appeared in I Never Sang for My Father (1971), For Pete's Sake (1975), Dick Tracy (1992) and Boys on the Side (1995). Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... Best Supporting Actor or Best Supporting Actress is an accolade given by a group of film or theatre professionals in recognition of the work of supporting and character actors. ... Bonnie Parker Bonnie and Clyde clowning. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... Rachel, Rachel is a 1968 film which tells the story of a repressed school teacher, living with her mother, who suddenly gets a man in her life. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organization that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, childrens film and television, and interactive media. ... DVD cover Watermelon Man is a 1970 comedy-drama film directed by Melvin Van Peebles and based on the book The Night the Sun Came out on Happy Hollow Lane by Herman Raucher. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... I Never Sang for My Father is a 1970 film which tells the story of a college professor who wants to get out from under the thumb of his aging father by marrying a younger woman and moving to California. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... Dick Tracy is a 1990 movie based upon the Dick Tracy character created by Chester Gould. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Boys on the Side is a touching film about friendship, written by Don Roos and directed by Herbert Ross. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

She also played the part of Roseanne Barr and Laurie Metcalf's pretentious mother, Beverly, on the long-running sitcom, Roseanne. Her other television credits include appearances on The Patty Duke Show, Frasier, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Roseanne Barr (born on November 3, 1952) is an actress, writer, talk-show host, and comedian. ... Laurie Metcalf was born Lauren Ophelia Metcalf on June 16, 1955 in Carbondale, Illinois. ... A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... This article refers to the sitcom Roseanne. For the actress/comedian, see Roseanne Barr. ... The Patty Duke Show was a sitcom which ran on ABC from September 18, 1963 until the final episode aired on May 4, 1966. ... Frasier was a critically acclaimed American TV situation comedy. ... Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 5 DVD Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (also known as Law & Order: SVU) is the first of three spin-offs of Law & Order (the other two being Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Law & Order: Trial by Jury; all series are presented on the NBC...

External link

• Estelle Parsons at The Internet Movie Database