Education
Yale University; Yale School of Drama.
Yale University; Yale School of Drama.
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 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 television and movies, the latter including include Second Sight, Sea of Love, Presumed Innocent and Spider-Manitoba 2.
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 New York City Police Department Blue.
In 2009 she guest-starred in two episodes of the Columbia Broadcasting System drama Ghost Whisperer as Evelyn James, Eli"s mom.
In 2011 she appeared on the first season of Forex series American Horror Story (Murder House) as Marcy. She later appeared in the Administrative Management College cable television series Mad Men, playing Joan Harris" mother, Gail Holloway.