Elizabeth Ann Sheridan (born April , ) is an American actress. She was
born and raised in Rye, New York, the daughter of concert singer
Elizabeth Poole-Jones and classical pianist, Frank Sheridan. While
best known for her role as Jerry's mother in Seinfeld, her
decades-long career is extensive and includes work as a dancer,
singer, and actress of stage and screen.Sheridan began her
professional life in New York City and the Caribbean as a nightclub
dancer and singer, moving on to stage work. She was cast in Broadway
productions throughout the s, both in musicals and plays. Sheridan
co-starred with Meryl Streep and Christopher Lloyd in the 's musical,
Happy End, before moving to Los Angeles. Working in Hollywood, she
came to prominence in supporting roles in over a dozen feature films
and prime time network television movies, mini-series, and series
including Kojak, Archie Bunker's Place, St. Elsewhere, Newhart,
Moonlighting, The A-Team, Who's the Boss, Hill St. Blues, Cagney &
Lacey, Family Ties, and Murder, She Wrote. Her first major role was
playing nosy neighbor Raquel Ochmonek on the NBC TV series ALF, from
to . Following that she secured her most renowned and long-lived role,
as Jerry's mother, Helen, in Seinfeld. She appeared in all nine
seasons, from to .In the s and s, she lived and worked in the
Caribbean, "singing and playing the piano in almost every bar and
saloon in the West Indies." In the late s, back in New York, she
performed in one of Julius Monk's annual cabaret reviews at Plaza ,
located in the Plaza Hotel.In , with Andy Griffith and Doris Roberts,
Sheridan co-starred in the feature film Play the Game, a romantic
comedy about a lonely, widowed grandfather who, after a -year hiatus,
learns dating tricks from his serial romancer of a grandson. The film
stirred up controversy due to its octogenarian sex scene between
Sheridan and Griffith.
born and raised in Rye, New York, the daughter of concert singer
Elizabeth Poole-Jones and classical pianist, Frank Sheridan. While
best known for her role as Jerry's mother in Seinfeld, her
decades-long career is extensive and includes work as a dancer,
singer, and actress of stage and screen.Sheridan began her
professional life in New York City and the Caribbean as a nightclub
dancer and singer, moving on to stage work. She was cast in Broadway
productions throughout the s, both in musicals and plays. Sheridan
co-starred with Meryl Streep and Christopher Lloyd in the 's musical,
Happy End, before moving to Los Angeles. Working in Hollywood, she
came to prominence in supporting roles in over a dozen feature films
and prime time network television movies, mini-series, and series
including Kojak, Archie Bunker's Place, St. Elsewhere, Newhart,
Moonlighting, The A-Team, Who's the Boss, Hill St. Blues, Cagney &
Lacey, Family Ties, and Murder, She Wrote. Her first major role was
playing nosy neighbor Raquel Ochmonek on the NBC TV series ALF, from
to . Following that she secured her most renowned and long-lived role,
as Jerry's mother, Helen, in Seinfeld. She appeared in all nine
seasons, from to .In the s and s, she lived and worked in the
Caribbean, "singing and playing the piano in almost every bar and
saloon in the West Indies." In the late s, back in New York, she
performed in one of Julius Monk's annual cabaret reviews at Plaza ,
located in the Plaza Hotel.In , with Andy Griffith and Doris Roberts,
Sheridan co-starred in the feature film Play the Game, a romantic
comedy about a lonely, widowed grandfather who, after a -year hiatus,
learns dating tricks from his serial romancer of a grandson. The film
stirred up controversy due to its octogenarian sex scene between
Sheridan and Griffith.
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