Estelle Getty

In 2002, it was revealed to the media that she is also suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Hawn has proved her singing talent with a cover version of the Beatles' song "A Hard Day's Night" on George Martin's CD In My Life (1998). In 2000, she stopped making public appearances after she revealed that she has Parkinson's disease.
. One of the most ironic things about casting Getty in this role was that she is actually two months younger than Bea Arthur: on Golden Girls, Getty was heavily made-up to seem significantly older. She has been in a relationship with Kurt Russell since 1983 and they have a son together, Wyatt. In it, she played the wise-cracking old Italian mother of Dorothy, who was the show's main protagonist, played by Bea Arthur. Her son Oliver Hudson is also an actor, appearing on the US (WB) TV series The Mountain.

Estelle Getty (born Estelle Scher on July 25, 1923) is an American actress best known for her role as Sophia Petrillo on the popular 1980s sitcom, The Golden Girls. She appeared in The Banger Sisters opposite Susan Sarandon in 2002. Through the late '90s into the year 2002 she has remained popular (in partial thanks to the success of her now adult daughter, actress Kate Hudson). She eventually came full circle playing an aging actress in the late 90s film The First Wives Club opposite Bette Midler and Diane Keaton. Her career died down a bit until 1992 when she revitalized it opposite Bruce Willis and Meryl Streep in the film Death Becomes Her.

Into the 1970s and 1980s Hawn remained a popular figure in entertainment, appearing in various films (generally comedies.) She gathered great respect as a comedic actress, outspoken on her liberal political views. Hawn won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in the 1969 film Cactus Flower. She embodied both the concept of the free-loving hippie girl and the determined feminist. Noted equally for her chipper attitude and her bikini and painted body, she personified a 60s "it-girl." On the show she would often break out into high-pitched giggles in the middle of a joke, yet in the next moment deliver a very polished performance.

born actress who began her career as one of the regular cast members on the 1960s sketch comedy show Laugh-In. Goldie Hawn (born November 21, 1945) is a Washington, D.C. The Banger Sisters (2002). The First Wives Club (1996).

Everyone Says I Love You (1996). Death Becomes Her (1992). Housesitter (1992). Overboard (1987).

Private Benjamin (1980). Shampoo (1975). Butterflies Are Free (1972). There's a Girl in My Soup (1970).

Cactus Flower (1969).