Years active 1979–present Education Yale School of Drama Role Actress | Name Christine Estabrook Children 2 | |
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Movies The Usual Suspects, Sea of Love, Catch That Kid, Spider‑Man 2, Presumed Innocent Similar People Vic Polizos, Mare Winningham, Marc Cherry, Amber Benson, Harold Becker | ||
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Christine Estabrook 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 that show's fifth season, and continuing into the sixth and seventh. She has received Obie Award and Drama Desk Award.
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Life and 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 performance in Deborah Eisenberg's Pastorale at the Second Stage, off-Broadway. She also created the role of Helen opposite William H. Macy in Durang's Baby with the Bathwater at Playwrights Horizons. And 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 popular ABC television series, Desperate Housewives playing Martha Huber, the widowed, nosy neighbour of the street and only friend of Edie Britt (Nicollette Sheridan). Other appearances include a 2002 episode of the HBO original series, Six Feet Under where 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 American Horror Story (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.
