Liz Sheridan 1929-2022

Liz Sheridan, the former Broadway dancer who had a memorable recurring role as Jerry’s supportive mother on Seinfeld and played the nosy neighbor Mrs. Ochmonek on ALF, died Friday. She was 93.

Sheridan died in her sleep of natural causes at her home in New York City five days after her birthday.

In her book Dizzy & Jimmy: My Life With James Dean: A Love Story, published in 2000, Sheridan — nicknamed Dizzy since childhood — wrote about the romance she had with the brooding actor when both were starting out in show business in the early 1950s in New York City.

Jerry Seinfeld paid tribute to Sheridan on social media writing, “Liz was always the sweetest, nicest TV mom a son could wish for. Every time she came on our show it was the coziest feeling for me. So lucky to have known her.”