22 Jul 08 Estelle Getty Dead at 84

Estelle Getty, who was probably most famous for her role is the sharp-tongued Octogenarian Sophia Petrillo in the US Sitcom ‘The Golden Girls’ has died this morning at her Hollywood Boulevard Home. She was three days short of her 85th birthday, and had suffered from advanced dementia for some time.

Her movie credits included ‘Mannequin’ and ‘Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot’.

She was a New Yorker by birth, her parents having immigrated from Poland.

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