ESTELLE PARSONS was described by Frank Rich in the New York Times as having “an artistic impulse that is both passionate and rare.” An Academy Award winner, Miss Parsons has distinguished herself in all major areas of the entertainment field. The day of her arrival in New York City from Marblehead, Massachusetts, with a B.A. from Connecticut College for Women and a year of law school experience, she was hired as one of eight people who put together the NBC TODAY SHOW for national television, the first morning television programming In the world. She then became the first woman to do political news reporting for a television network. 

The year after she won the Academy Award for BONNIE AND CLYDE, she was nominated for a second Oscar for Paul Newman’s RACHEL, RACHEL.

Her television credits include ROSEANNE and THE CONNERS as Mother Bev; and as Babe on GRACE AND FRANKIE.