June Gable

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| name = June Gable

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1945|06|05}}

| birth_place = Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.

| othername =

| occupation = Actress

| yearsactive = 1969–present

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June Gable (born June 5, 1945){{Cite web|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/june-gable-77793|title=June Gable – Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB|website=www.ibdb.com}} is an American character actress, perhaps best known for her role as Joey's agent Estelle Leonard in the NBC sitcom Friends. She also played a nurse in the delivery room in season 1 episode 23, “The One With The Birth.” She received a Tony Award nomination for her work on Broadway.

Life and career

Gable studied acting at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.{{cite web|url=http://www.vineyardtheatre.org/june-gable/|title=June Gable - Vineyard Theatre|date=3 October 2016|publisher=|accessdate=10 January 2017|archive-date=16 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180616154011/http://www.vineyardtheatre.org/june-gable/|url-status=dead}}

Gable has appeared in four Broadway productions including the 1974 revival of Candide for which she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of the Old Lady.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/june-gable-77793|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202230015/http://www.ibdb.com/awardperson.asp?id=77793|url-status=dead|title=June Gable – Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB|archivedate=December 2, 2013|website=www.ibdb.com}} She was featured as Snooks Keene in the infamous Broadway disaster, Moose Murders, which opened and closed on the same night in 1983.{{cite news|last1=Rich|first1=Frank|title=Stage: 'Moose Murders,' A Brand of Whodunit|agency=New York Times|work=New York Times|date=Feb 23, 1983|ref=pg. C16}} She also replaced Rita Moreno in The Ritz in 1975. She also appeared in a replacement cast of the off-Broadway revue Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.

On television, Gable played Detective Battista on the third season of Barney Miller. She was also in the cast of the short-lived 1977 revival of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. In 1979 she appeared as "Rhoda Rooter" on the live-action Hanna-Barbera TV specials Legends of the Superheroes. From 1978 to 1981 she was regular cast member on the syndicated variety series Sha Na Na.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YX_daEhlnbsC&q=june+gable+Sha+Na+Na&pg=PA952|title=Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010, 2d ed.|first=Vincent|last=Terrace|date=6 November 2008|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786486410|accessdate=10 January 2017|via=Google Books}} In the 1980s she guest starred on popular series including Miami Vice and Kate & Allie, and had small parts in the films Brenda Starr and She-Devil (both 1989). She also appeared in a recurring role in the HBO comedy series Dream On from 1990 to 1996 playing Libby Friedman.

From 1994 to 2004, Gable played Estelle Leonard, the agent of Matt LeBlanc‘s character Joey Tribbiani, on the NBC sitcom Friends. Her character died in 2004 during the show's tenth and final season. She played a nurse on the same show in season 1, episode 23.{{cite web|url=https://moviepilot.com/posts/3866856|title=Have You Ever Noticed These Actors Playing More Than One Role On FRIENDS?|publisher=|accessdate=10 January 2017|archive-date=2 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180102073203/https://moviepilot.com/posts/3866856|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.shadowlocked.com/201012291194/lists/top-10-friends-secondary-characters.html|title=Top 10 Friends secondary characters - - movies, TV, videogames, crowd-funding - Shadowlocked: find the future!|first=Dominic|last=Ladden|publisher=|accessdate=10 January 2017|archive-date=12 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170112180158/http://www.shadowlocked.com/201012291194/lists/top-10-friends-secondary-characters.html|url-status=dead}} After Friends, Gable retired from acting.{{cite web | url=https://bestlifeonline.com/agent-estelle-friends-now-news/#:~:text=%22As%20soon%20as%20Friends%20ended,could%20afford%20to%20do%20that | title=See Joey's Agent Estelle from "Friends" Now at 77 | date=16 September 2022 }} She told Wealthsimple : "As soon as Friends ended, I retired. The man I loved was very ill and I wanted to be able to take care of him". In later years, she performed in productions of The Odd Couple, Picon Pie, and Broads!. In November 2012, she starred in the lead role of Marie in the world premiere of Bill C. Davis' "All Hallowed" at the Waco Civic Theatre in Waco, Texas under the direction of George Boyd.{{cite web|last1=Hoover|first1=Carl|title=Theater review: WCT's 'All Hallowed' solid, engaging character study|url=http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/entertainment_in_waco/theater-review-wct-s-all-hallowed-solid-engaging-character-study/article_6907af0b-85f7-5ffe-8586-8c649b771f54.html|website=www.wacotrib.com|publisher=Waco Tribune-Herald|accessdate=8 December 2015}}

In 2018, Gable made her first screen appearance in more than 15 years, appearing in the Netflix comedy film The Week Of. In 2022, she starred as Ray Romano's character's mother in the comedy-drama film, Somewhere in Queens.

Filmography

= Film =

class="wikitable"

!Year

!Title

!Role

!Director(s)

!Notes

1989

|Brenda Starr

|Luba

|Robert Ellis Miller

1989

|She-Devil

|Realtor

|Susan Seidelman

2018

|The Week Of

|Roberta

|Robert Smigel

2022

|Somewhere in Queens

|Mama Russo

|Ray Romano

2023

|Maestro

|Old Lady

|Bradley Cooper

= Television =

class="wikitable"

!Year

!Title

!Role

!Episodes

!Notes

1976

|Newman's Drugstore

|Shirley Tinker

|Television Movie

1976–77

|Barney Miller

|Detective Maria Battista

|2 episodes
— "Noninvolment" (1976)
— "Smog Alert" (1977)

1977

|The Bay City Amusement Company

|Gail

|Television Movie

1977–78

|Laugh-In

|Regular performer

|series regular (6 episodes)

|aka Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

1978–81

|Sha Na Na

|Loraine

|unknown episodes

1979

|Legends of the Superheroes

|Rhoda Rooter

|— "The Roast"

1987

|Crime Story

|Aggie the Waitress

|— "Little Girl Lost"

1989

|Kate & Allie

|unknown role

|— "The Review"

1990

|Miami Vice

|Dr. Ellen Hardy

|— "Too Much, Too Late"

1990

|Head of the Class

|Greta Amory

|— "Viki's Torn Genes"

1990–96

|Dream On

|Libby Friedman

|recurring role (7 episodes)

1993

|Family Album

|Mrs. Krevitz

|— "Salon, Farewell, Auf Widersehn, Goodbye"

1994

|Mad About You

|Woman #1

|— "The City"

1994–2003

|Friends

|Estelle Leonard / Nurse

|recurring role (10 episodes)
Guest — "The One with the Birth" (1995)

1997

|The Tony Danza Show

|Woman

|— "The Milk Run"

1998

|Caroline in the City

|Naomi

|— "Caroline and the Quiz Show"

1998

|Buddy Faro

|unknown role

|— "Pilot"

2000

|Sally Hemings: An American Scandal

|Madam Dupre

|Television Movie

2012

|My America

|unknown role

|— "Annette"

2016

|Nunsense

|Sr. Rose Seraphine

|unknown episode

= Theatre =

class="wikitable"

!Year

!Title

!Role

!Venue

!Notes

!Ref

1973

|Nash at Nine

|Standby

|Helen Hayes Theatre

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1974–76

|Candide

|Old Lady

|Broadway Theatre

|740 (performances)
Nominated — Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical

1975–76

|The Ritz

|Googie Gomez

|Longacre Theatre

|replaced Rita Moreno

1983

|Moose Murders