Exclusive | The Bear star Abby Elliott serves up the years most dazzling jewelry

Actress Abby Elliott is basking in the afterglow of a much needed mini vacation.After wrapping the fourth season of “The Bear” in Chicago, she headed straight to New York to catch up with old friends, see a Broadway show and model piles of gorgeous jewels as our cover star.

She was dazzled by all the bling; she was transformed by the solo nights at her hotel.“I got 11 hours of sleep one night,” the mom of two young kids marvels.

“It was unbelievable!”Back home in Los Angeles, she jumps on Zoom with Alexa to talk gems and caftans, improv and impressions, and the singular emotional support to be found in a ladies’ text thread.She dropped hints about what’s to come on “The Bear,” as well as in a new miniseries she’s in with “Succession” star Sarah Snook.Snook, as it happens, is the star of the play Elliott saw, “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” an edgy, glittery new rendering of the Oscar Wilde novel.

“She was just incredible!” Elliott raves.“Like, blew me away.

The energy that she’s exuding! Spectacular.”Elliott matched her co-star’s sparkle on her shoot with us.“We were in this beautiful, vacant penthouse down on Leonard Street,” Elliott shares.

“It was so grand and opulent! I’m not used to wearing stuff like that, and it was fun to play dress-up.” Spring is in the air, and Elliott was feeling the flowy dress vibes.“There was a really cool pink Ferragamo caftan, and it was kind of this big tent, but it was also a bubble.

After having two kids, I love tents and caftans!” she says.“And doing up my hair, and the jewels, it felt so far from who I actually am, and so fun to play that character.”When she’s off the clock, Elliott stays true to her Connecticut sartorial roots.

“Button-downs, trench coats, a really nice pair of jeans,” says the actor, who’s wearing a wide-striped, pink and white Oxford as we speak.She also favors the LA athleisure uniform as, she points out, “I’m always being spilled ...