Estelle Leonard
Joey's chain-smoking agent, who got him Dr. Drake Ramoray and died before the finale, played by June Gable.
Estelle Leonard of the Estelle Leonard Talent Agency is Joey Tribbiani's withered, chain-smoking acting agent in Friends, played by June Gable in eleven episodes. She signed him after seeing him play the lead in the low-budget musical Freud!, and got him his breakout role as Dr. Drake Ramoray on Days of Our Lives.
Quick Facts
- Played by
- June Gable
- Agency
- The Estelle Leonard Talent Agency
- Client
- Joey Tribbiani
- Other client
- Al Zebooker (eats paper)
- Dies in
- The One Where Estelle Dies (season 10)
- Episodes
- 11
Facts from the source article.
Background
For the most part she is bad at her job: most of Joey's parts are extras with few lines, she offers him gay porn, and once, wrongly thinking he had left her, she tries to sabotage his career. Her other clients include a dog-pyramid act and Al Zebooker, a man who eats paper. She dies in season 10 of a coronary embolism, the last character to die in the show, with only Joey and Zebooker left on her books; Phoebe impersonates her on the phone to spare Joey the news, then does it again after he has heard, so that he thinks Estelle is calling from beyond the grave. June Gable also played the nurse at Ben's birth in "The One With The Birth".
Her first on-screen appearance is "The One With Russ" (she appears earlier in the DVD cut of "The One With The Butt"); her death is "The One Where Estelle Dies".
Source
Text adapted from Estelle Leonard on Friends Central (Fandom, CC BY-SA 3.0). Page history: contributors. Codexery summarised the page, and this entry is shared under the same licence.
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