Estelle Getty

In 2002, it was revealed to the media that she is also suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Hatcher has a daughter, Emerson Rose, from a former marriage to Jon Tenney. In 2000, she stopped making public appearances after she revealed that she has Parkinson's disease. She now appears on the show Desperate Housewives. 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 also made guest appearances in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Seinfeld, and had a recurring role in MacGyver. In it, she played the wise-cracking old Italian mother of Dorothy, who was the show's main protagonist, played by Bea Arthur. While probably most noted for playing Lois Lane in the TV series Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, she was also in Spy Kids, the 1997 James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies, and many other movies.

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. Teri Lynn Hatcher (born December 8, 1964 in Sunnyvale, California) is an American actress.