Cynthia Harris

Cynthia Harris was an American film, television, and stage actress.

She is best known for her roles in the television series Edward & Mrs. Simpson and the sitcom Mad About You.

After a start on Broadway, she transition to films such as Isadora and Up the Sandbox.

She had regular roles on two short-lived 1970s TV comedies — Sirota's Court, starring Michael Constantine, and Husbands, Wives & Lovers, co-created by Joan Rivers.

Later, she played Iris Hubbard, a law intern and secretary to Richard Dysart's Leland McKenzie, on the first season of NBC's L.A. Law and the mother of Michael Lombardi's character on FX's Rescue Me.

In 1993, Harris was introduced as Sylvia Buchman, the quintessential Jewish mother and wife of Louis Zorich's character, Burt, on the second season on Mad About You. She appeared on 71 episodes of the NBC sitcom during its original run, which ended in 1999, then returned for the show's reboot in 2019.

Harris also showed up on episodes of The Bob Newhart Show, Kojak, Three's Company, Knots Landing, Benson, and Archie Bunker's Place and in Paul Mazursky's Tempest (1982).

Harris died October 3, 2021 in Manhattan. She was 87.