Christine Estabrook
{{short description|American actress (born 1952)}}
{{BLP sources|date=March 2013}}
{{Use American English|date=July 2020}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Christine Estabrook
| birth_name = Mary Christine Estabrook
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1952|9|13}}
| birth_place = East Aurora, New York
| years_active = 1979–present
| spouse = {{marriage|Vic Polizos|1998}}
| children = 2
| education = State University of New York, Oswego {{small|(BA)}}
Yale University {{small|(MFA)}}
}}
Christine Estabrook (born Mary Christine Estabrook; September 13, 1952){{cite web |url=https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/564393683:1265 |title=Mary Christine Estabrook in the U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-2016 |website=Ancestry.com |url-access=subscription |access-date=November 12, 2022}}{{Dead link|date=October 2024}} is an American actress, known for her roles on the television series The Crew, Nikki, Desperate Housewives, and American Horror Story; she had a recurring role on the drama Mad Men during the show's fifth, sixth, and seventh seasons. Estabrook has received an Obie Award and Drama Desk Award.
Early life
Estabrook was born to Julianne Shed in East Aurora, New York, and graduated from East Aurora High School. She has three brothers and one sister.{{cite news |first=Alan |last=Pergament |title=Call Her Crazy East Aurora Native Christine Estabrook Warms to the Zany Roles She Gets, Including her Latest in 'Desperate Housewives' |work=The Buffalo News |date=November 7, 2004 |url=https://buffalonews.com/news/call-her-crazy-east-aurora-native-christine-estabrook-warms-to-the-zany-roles-she-gets/article_eec801c3-007e-5b84-8a60-8b26c2109838.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=November 20, 2022}}
Career
At the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, she created the role of the young daughter in Kevin O'Morrison's Ladyhouse Blues, which then moved to off-Broadway. On Broadway, she was in The Inspector General and Andrei Șerban's production of The Cherry Orchard. She won an Obie Award for her off-Broadway performance in Deborah Eisenberg's Pastorale, at the Second Stage Theater. She created the role of Helen opposite William H. Macy in Durang's Baby with the Bathwater at Playwrights Horizons. On Broadway, she took over the role of Feni in Wendy Wasserstein's The Sisters Rosensweig. In the fall of 2006, she returned to Broadway in the musical Spring Awakening, playing all the adult female roles.
Since the 1990s, she has mostly done TV and movies, the latter including include Second Sight, Sea of Love, Presumed Innocent, and Spider-Man 2.
She had a recurring role on the ABC television series, Desperate Housewives playing Martha Huber, the widowed, nosy neighbor of the street. Her other appearances include a 2002 episode of the HBO series, Six Feet Under, wherein she played Emily Previn, a woman who died alone without any family or friends. The episode sparked much discussion in the following days about the character's death. Estabrook has also guest-starred on 7th Heaven, Dharma and Greg, The Guardian, Veronica Mars, and NYPD Blue. In 2009, she guest-starred in two episodes of the CBS drama Ghost Whisperer as Evelyn James, Eli's mom.
In 2011, she appeared on the first season of FX series Murder House as Marcy. She later appeared in a recurring role in the AMC cable-television series Mad Men, playing Joan Harris' mother, Gail Holloway.
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable"| Notes |
|---|
| 1979
| Student editor | |
| 1982
| The Wall | Rutka | |
| 1984
| The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck | Janet Reiss | Television movie |
| 1985
| Maggie | |
| 1989
| Gina Gallagher | |
| 1989
| Priscilla Pickett | |
| 1990
| Lydia MacDougall | |
| 1991
| One Special Victory | Ruthie | Television movie |
| 1995
| Dr. Plummer | |
| 1995
| Kidnapped: In the Line of Duty | {{n/a}} | Television movie |
| 1996
| Special Report: Journey to Mars | {{n/a}} | Television movie |
| 1997
| Dr. Christine Winter | Television movie |
| 2002
| Chance | Desiree | |
| 2003
| Living in Walter's World | Robin | Short film |
| 2003
| Grind | Sarah Jensen | |
| 2004
| Sharon | |
| 2004
| |
| 2006
| Elaine Rayne | |
| 2008
| Mom | |
| 2010
| Backyard Wedding | Joanne Blake | Television movie |
| 2016
| Is That a Gun in Your Pocket? | Shirley Parsons | |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable"| Notes |
|---|
| 1984
| 3 episodes |
| 1985
| Hometown | Jane Parnell | 9 episodes |
| 1987
|Irene | Episode: "The Enormous Radio" |
| 1990
| L.A. Law | Susan Parral | Episode: "Blood, Sweat and Fears" |
| 1993
| Frasier | Lou | Episode: "Miracle on Third or Fourth Street" |
| 1994
| Agent Henderson | Episode: "Young at Heart" |
| 1995
| Cybill | Patty | Episode: "The Replacements" |
| 1995–96
| The Crew | Lenora Zwick | 21 episodes |
| 1997
| Judge Maureen Zisk | Episode: "Part VI" |
| 1997
| Lindsay | Episode: "Haus Arrest" |
| 1997
| Lindsay Wolf | Episode: "Where No Man Has Gone Before" |
| 1998
| The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer | 4 episodes |
| 1999
| Bonnie Mannix | Episode: "The Green Monster" |
| 2000
| Rene Sederberg | Episode: "Boys Will Be Girls" |
| 2000
| Titus | Juanita Titus | Episode: "Mom's Not Nuts" |
| 2000
| Kate Radcliff | Episode: "Pandora's Box" |
| 2000–02
| Nikki | Marion | 11 episodes |
| 2002
| Emily Previn | Episode: "The Invisible Woman" |
| 2002
| Anne Lauer | Episode: "Scared Straight" |
| 2002–03
| Aunt Liz | 2 episodes |
| 2004
| Ruthie's teacher | Episode: "Don't Speak Ill of the Living or the Dead" |
| 2004–12
| Martha Huber | 12 episodes |
| 2004
| Berri Kaplan | Episode: "Quarantine" |
| 2004
| Lynn Cahill | Episode: "The 3-H Club" |
| 2005
| Madame Sophie | Episode: "Blast from the Past" |
| 2006
| Numb3rs | Laura Price | Episode: "Dark Matter" |
| 2006
| Bones | Lisa Supac | Episode: "The Titan on the Tracks" |
| 2008
| Hensley's attorney | Episode: "Angelgrove" |
| 2009
| Evelyn James | 2 episodes |
| 2010
| Nip/Tuck | Sheila Carlton | Episode: "Sheila Carlton" |
| 2011
| American Horror Story: Murder House | Marcy | 6 episodes |
| 2012–15
| Mad Men | Gail Holloway | 8 episodes |
| 2012
| Judy | Episode: "Charlie Gets Romantic" |
| 2013
| Moderator | Episode: "Baby Talk" |
| 2014
| Therapist | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 2015
| Looking | Realtor | Episode: "Looking for Sanctuary" |
| 2015
| Mel | Episode: "The Queen of Hearts" |
| 2015–16
| American Horror Story: Hotel | Marcy | 3 episodes |
| 2016
| Governor Chris Nichols | Episode: "The Interrogation" |
| 2016, 2018
| Mrs. Patricia Davis | 2 episodes |
| 2018
| Peggy | 3 episodes |
| 2018-2019
| 9-1-1 | Gloria Wagner | 2 episodes |
| 2019
| Joyce Dubner | 1 episode |
| 2020
| Margaret Fogle | Episode: "Debbie" |
| 2020
| Maryanne | Episode: "The Table" |
=Stage=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable"| Notes |
|---|
| 1976
| Ladyhouse Blues | Eylie | |
| 1976–77
| Marco Polo | Princess Kogatin | |
| 1977
| Dunyasha | |
| 1978
| Marya Antonovna | |
| 1978
| City Sugar | Nicola Davies | |
| 1979
| Ladyhouse Blues | Eylie | |
| 1981
| Joy | |
| 1982
| Pastorale | Rachel | |
| 1983
| Elsie | |
| 1983
| Win/Lose/Draw | Various | Nominated—Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play |
| 1983–84
| Helen | |
| 1984
| The Flight of the Earls | Bridgette Earl | |
| 1985–88
| Clara | |
| 1988–89
| For Dear Life | Dottie | |
| 1988
| Sheila | Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play |
| 1989
| The Widow's Blind Date | Maggy Burke | |
| 1990
| What a Man Weighs | Joan | |
| 1993–94
| Pfeni Rosensweig | |
| 2006–07
| The Adult Woman | |
References
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Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:American film actresses
Category:American stage actresses
Category:American television actresses
Category:Drama Desk Award winners
Category:Obie Award recipients
Category:David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University alumni
Category:American musical theatre actresses
Category:20th-century American actresses
Category:21st-century American actresses
Category:Actresses from Pennsylvania