Actor Liz Sheridan, who played Jerry’s mom in ‘Seinfeld,’ dies at 93

TV and theater star Liz Sheridan, who famously performed Jerry’s motherHelen on “Seinfeld,” has died. She was 93.

Sheridan, whose full title was Elizabeth Ann Sheridan however who additionally glided by Dizzy, died “peacefully in her sleep from pure causes” early Friday morning and 5 days after her birthday, stated her supervisor Amanda Hendon.

Her dying comes lower than two weeks after that of her “Seinfeld” co-star, Estelle Harris, who performed the mom of Jason Alexander’s George Costanza.

Seinfeld paid tribute to Sheridan in a tweet Friday, writing, “Liz was at all times the sweetest, nicest TV mother a son might want for. Each time she got here on our present it was the coziest feeling for me. So fortunate to have recognized her.”

Sheridan bought her begin as a dancer dwelling in New York’s theater district. She later discovered work dancing in nightclubs and in summer-stock musicals, based on her 2000 memoir, “Dizzy & Jimmy: My Life With James Dean: A Love Story.” The ebook was about her relationship with movie star James Dean, who died in a automobile crash in 1955, and is being developed as a function movie, Hendon stated.

She additionally appeared in a number of Broadway reveals, together with the 1977 musical “Comfortable Finish” with Meryl Streep. She performed the eccentric neighbor Mrs. Ochmonek on the Nineteen Eighties youngsters’s program “Alf” and voiced Mrs. Stillman in Louie Anderson’s autobiographical cartoon “Life With Louise.”

On the large display screen, Sheridan starred in 1987’s “Who’s That Lady” with Madonna and the 2009 rom-com “Play the Recreation,” reverse late actors Andy Griffith and Doris Roberts.

However the actor was finest recognized for her recurring position on “Seinfeld,” the Emmy-winning sitcom that ran on NBC for 9 seasons from 1989 to 1998. She performed Florida retiree Helen Seinfeld reverse Barney Martin’s Morty Seinfeld. She famously puzzled how “anybody couldn’t like” her son but in addition scolded him for making out with a date whereas watching “Schindler’s Record.”

Other than the 4 lead forged members — Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander and Michael Richards — Sheridan was reportedly the one performer to look in each season of the sitcom. She additionally carried out a one-woman present titled “Mrs. Seinfeld Sings.”

Sheridan is survived by a daughter and son-in-law.