Estelle Getty acted in multiple television shows in the 1980s.
 She received widespread praise for her appearance in the playincluding a Drama Desk Award nominationand went on to reprise the role in both Broadway and off-Broadway productions for four years
=== HIV/AIDS activism ===Getty was said by friends Harvey Fierstein and Rosie O'Donnell, both notable members of the LGBT community, to have been heavily involved in HIV/AIDS activism and had lost close friends and family to the disease, among them her nephew Steven Scher (19621992), whom she cared for after he was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, and her Torch Song Trilogy co-star Court Miller (19521986)

