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Estelle Getty (born '''Estelle Scher''' on July 25 , 1923 in New York City ) is an Emmy and Golden Globe Award winning actress, whose most important beginning role was playing Harvey Fierstein 's mother on Broadway in the play '' Torch Song Trilogy ''; however, she was best known for her role as Sophia Petrillo on the popular 1980s Sitcom , '' The Golden Girls ''. In it, she played the wise-cracking old Sicilian mother of Dorothy Zbornak , who was the show's main protagonist, played by Bea Arthur . Getty was actually two months ''younger'' than Bea Arthur and was heavily made-up to look significantly older. In 2000 , she stopped making public appearances after she revealed that she had Parkinson's Disease and Osteoporosis . In 2002 , it was revealed to the media that she is also suffering from Alzheimer's Disease . It was later found that she actually had Lewy Body Dementia , and both the Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diagnoses were incorrect. EMMY AWARDS
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