The play’s themes of homosexuality, AIDS, and the drag queen lifestyle were all new and quite shocking, and New York ate it up. She met Harvey Fierstein when he was a young playwright, and he was so enamored with her he wrote a part just for her in his controversial play Torch Song Trilogy. Estelle worked theatre gigs this way for over TWENTY FREAKING YEARS until she finally got a big break. I’m completely exhausted just thinking about it. She cared for her kids before school, went to auditions on her lunch break from job #1, and performed as she could after putting the kids to bed. Even after she married and had two boys, she still managed to keep finding roles. She said she was instantly hooked, and knew she had to become an actress.Įstelle supported herself after high school with secretarial work while she worked as many small theatre roles as she could. Every Friday, Estelle’s father took the family out to listen to live music and watch vaudeville acts in a local theatre. Her family lived in an apartment attached to the glass shop her father owned. She was born in New York to Jewish immigrants from Poland. I couldn’t not paint her and finish off the badass group of Golden Girls.Įstelle Getty was a tiny lil badass, whether in or out of character.
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