Thelma Leeds (née Goodman; December 18, 1910[1] – May 27, 2006) was an American actress.

She was the mother of actor/director Albert Brooks, Bob Einstein (TV's "Super Dave Osborne"), and Clifford Einstein,[2] chairman of Dailey & Associates Advertising in West Hollywood, California and chairman of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

[2] She met her husband Harry "Parkyakarkus" Einstein, a dialect comedian, while filming New Faces of 1937.

Two years after Einstein's death in 1958, she married Irving "Bernie" Bernstein; he died in 1983.

She reportedly was the inspiration for Brooks' 1996 comedy Mother, which starred Debbie Reynolds.