Estelle Getty, who died yesterday at 84, played the tiny, tart-tongued octogenarian Sophia on TV’s “Golden Girls” for seven seasons starting in 1985. Despite being two decades younger than the role, ...

Estelle Getty, the diminutive actress who spent 40 years struggling for success before landing the role of a lifetime in 1985 as the sarcastic octogenarian Sophia on TV’s “The Golden Gi… ...

She was 84. Getty, who suffered from advanced dementia, died at about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday at her Hollywood Boulevard home, said her son, Carl Gettleman of Santa Monica.