Estelle Reiner

Estelle Reiner
Born	Estelle Lebost (1914-06-05)June 5, 1914 New York City, U.S.
Died	October 25, 2008(2008-10-25) (aged 94) Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Actress, singer
Years active	1960–1989
Spouse	Carl Reiner ​ (m. 1943)​
Children	Rob Annie Lucas

Estelle Reiner (

Carl Reiner's 1960s television comedy, The Dick Van Dyke Show, recapitulated his career writing for Sid Caesar, with Carl Reiner playing the Caesar character and Dick Van Dyke portraying Reiner's real-life job as a writer in the role of Rob Petrie. The re-creation was so complete that the Petries in the show lived on Bonnie Meadow Road in suburban New Rochelle, New York, the same street as the real-life Reiners. As described by Rob Reiner, "Basically he wrote his own life" in The Dick Van Dyke Show and that “my mother was Mary Tyler Moore".^[1]

In her 60s, Reiner became a cabaret singer and performed for decades until just a few years before her death. She studied the theatre with method acting pioneer Lee Strasberg and with Viola Spolin, the American Grandmother of Improvisation. She appeared in a number of film comedies, including with Dom DeLuise in the 1980 film Fatso, as Mrs. Goodman, and in the 1983 movies The Man with Two Brains with Steve Martin in the role "Tourist in Elevator" and in Mel Brooks' To Be or Not to Be as Gruba.^[1][2]

Reiner's most enduring film role was in 1989's