Estelle Harris

Estelle Harris, the actress known for playing George Costanza's mother on "Seinfeld," died Saturday, her agent told CNN. She was 93.

She later found success on Madison Avenue as she appeared in as many as 25 national television commercials in a single year, earning her the nickname "Queen of Commercials," the statement said.Harris voiced the role of Mrs. Potato Head in the "Toy Story" franchise as well as other animated characters, including in "Tarzan II," "Brother Bear," and "Teacher's Pet.""She always adored meeting and greeting children of all ages everywhere she went -- and of course making them laugh. Estelle Harris, known for role on 'Seinfeld,' has died at 93 Estelle Harris, the actress known for playing George Costanza's mother on "Seinfeld," died Saturday, her agent told CNN. She was 93. She married and had three children after moving back to New York. Harris began acting in community theaters before moving on to regional theaters and summer stock productions across the country.

ESTELLE HARRIS, WHO played George Costanza's short-fused mother on Seinfeld and voiced Mrs Potato Head in the Toy Story franchise, has died aged 93.

The career-defining role came after decades on stage and screen. Eventually, she began appearing in guest roles on TV shows including the legal comedy Night Court, and in films including director Sergio Leone’s 1984 gangland epic Once Upon a Time in America. She voiced Mrs Potato Head in the 1999 animated blockbuster Toy Story 2 and played the recurring character Muriel in the popular Disney Channel sitcom The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, among other roles.

Harris played the mother of Jason Alexander's George Costanza in beloved NBC sitcom Seinfeld. She appeared in 27 episodes overall between the years of 1992 and ...

Her voice became known by a younger generation after she was cast as Mrs Potato Head in Toy Story 2. Her credits include Curb Your Enthusiasm, written by and starring Seinfeld’s Larry David, ER, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Cybill and Married... with Children. Harris played the mother of Jason Alexander’s George Costanza in beloved NBC sitcom Seinfeld. She appeared in 27 episodes overall between the years of 1992 and 1998.

As Estelle Costanza, Harris put a memorable stamp on her recurring role in the smash 1990s sitcom.

After the nine-season run of Seinfeld ended in 1998, Harris continued to appear on stage and screen. She started tapping her comedic talents in high school productions where she realized she “could make the audience get hysterical”, as she told People magazine in 1995. The career-defining role came after decades on stage and screen.

Estelle Harris was best known for playing the mother of George Costanza in the popular 90s sitcom Seinfeld.

She reprised the role of Mrs Potato Head for Toy Story 3 and Toy Story 4 — her last credited role. But it's not how I play her. Viewers, she told an interviewer in 1998, "just look at her as being funny, cute and a loudmouth.

Harris put a memorable stamp on her recurring role in the smash 1990s sitcom, Seinfeld. With her high-pitched voice and overbearing attitude, she was an ...

“Estelle is a born performer,” Stiller told The Record of Bergen County, NJ, in 1998. I will cherish knowing Estelle forever. Estelle Harris was funny, beautiful, kind & incredibly talented!

Estelle Harris, the actress known for playing Mrs. Potato Head in the "Toy Story" franchise and George Costanza's mom on "Seinfeld," has died at 93.

On Disney Channel's "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody," she played apathetic hotel housekeeper Muriel, whose catchphrase was "I'm not cleaning that up." "In the last year or two, all of a sudden these youngsters recognize me as Mrs. Costanza, Estelle Costanza," Harris told The Canadian Press in 2012. We all have to face death, so the easier we can make it for one another the better." I think 'Seinfeld,' because of the writing and the right cast, will go on for years and years." The actress' son Glen Harris told Deadline and Forbes she died Saturday evening. With a nasally, high-pitched voice that was instantly recognizable, Harris had more than 100 acting credits across her 45-year film and TV career.

Best known as George Costanza's mother on "Seinfeld," she also voiced Mrs. Potato Head in the "Toy Story" movies.

She started tapping her comedic talents in high school productions, where she realized she “could make the audience get hysterical,” as she told People magazine in 1995.After the nine-season run of “Seinfeld” ended in 1998, Ms. Harris continued to appear on stage and screen. “I just go with what I got, and she goes back at me the same way.”Still, Ms. Harris saw a sympathetic undertone to her character, often saying Estelle fumed out frustration at her bumbling mate and scheming slacker of a son.Viewers, she told an interviewer in 1998, “just look at her as being funny, cute and a loudmouth. Estelle Harris, who played cranky mother on ‘Seinfeld,’ dies at 93Estelle Harris, best known for her role as George Costanza's mother in “Seinfeld,” also voiced Mrs. Potato Head in the “Toy Story” films. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)Estelle Harris, who hollered her way into TV history as George Costanza’s short-fused mother on “Seinfeld” and voiced Mrs. Potato Head in the “Toy Story” franchise, died April 2 in Palm Desert, Calif. She was 93. Born April 22, 1928, in New York City as Estelle Nussbaum, Ms. Harris grew up in the city and later in the Pittsburgh suburb of Tarentum, Pa., where her father owned a candy store. With her high-pitched voice and humorously overbearing attitude, she was an archetype of maternal indignation.Trading insults and absurdities with her on-screen husband, played by Jerry Stiller, Ms. Harris helped create a parental pair that would leave even a psychiatrist helpless to do anything but hope they’d move to Florida — as their son, played by Jason Alexander, fruitlessly encouraged them to do.Jerry Stiller, comedian who played crotchety Frank Costanza on ‘Seinfeld,’ dies at 92Viewers of all backgrounds would tell her she was just like their own mothers, Ms. Harris often said.“She is the mother that everybody loves, even though she’s a pain in the neck,” she told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 1998.The career-defining role came after decades on stage and screen.

Harris hollered her way into TV history as George Costanza's short-fused mother on "Seinfeld" and voiced Mrs. Potato Head in the "Toy Story" franchise.

After "Seinfeld" ended, she would go on to voice Mrs. Potato Head in the Toy Story franchise and played the recurring character Muriel in the Disney Channel sitcom "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody." Harris spent decades on stage and screen before making her "Seinfeld" debut as Estelle Costanza, partnering with Jerry Stiller as the parents of George Costanza on "a show about nothing." Estelle Harris, who made TV history as George Costanza's mother on "Seinfeld" and provided the voice of Mrs. Potato Head in the Toy Story franchise, has died at age 93.

Harris hollered her way into TV history as George Costanza's short-fused mother on "Seinfeld" and voiced Mrs. Potato Head in the "Toy Story" franchise.

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Employing a high-powered screech, she took maternal exasperation and paranoia to comedic heights as one of the show's most frequently recurring characters.

Her comedic style summoned paranoia and outrage in response to transgressions like her son continuing to wear the same button-down shirt five years after he bought it. During her character’s meltdowns, often in response to slights and offenses to propriety, Ms. Harris deployed a screech that had the urgency of a hyena in its death throes. Her son Glen Harris announced the death in a statement sent by Ms. Harris’s agent.

Though she only appeared in 27 of the long-running series's 180 episodes, her performance as the ne plus ultra of crazy sitcom mothers made an indelible impact.

Don Rickles voiced Mr. Potato Head solo in the first film, but she joined for the second, third, fourth, and numerous short films. And that’s just the beginning of the scene. A production of Come Back, Little Sheba on Long Island led to an agent.

Estelle Harris, star of Seinfeld and the Toy Story franchise, has died at the age of 93, her family confirmed on Saturday.

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The beloved character actor, who held her own against Jerry Stiller and Don Rickles, has died.

That’s to say nothing of the fact that she held her own against the incredible Jerry Stiller, with the duo’s screaming matches (punctuated with Harris’ instantly memorable cries like “You’re killing him!”) solidifying their place as two of the funniest sitcom actors of all time. Estelle Harris, a beloved character actor best known in live-action for playing George Constanza’s easily frustrated mother on Seinfeld and best known in animation for playing devoted toy matriarch Mrs. Potato Head in the Toy Story series, has died. She was also in Once Upon A Time In America, NightCourt, Married… With Children, a Law & Order episode, and Mad About You.

During her character's meltdowns, often in response to slights and offenses to propriety, Harris deployed a screech that had the urgency of a hyena in its death ...

They had three children, and for a while, she was a homemaker. Estelle Nussbaum was born April 22nd, 1928, in the Hell’s Kitchen section of Manhattan, New York City, where her Polish Jewish parents owned a candy store. The combination of stiffness and violence in her gesticulations expressed a forbidding level of psychological tension. Something in the emotionality with which she portrayed Estelle Costanza had prompted fond recognition in a national audience. During her character’s meltdowns, often in response to slights and offenses to propriety, Harris deployed a screech that had the urgency of a hyena in its death throes. Her son Glen Harris announced the death in a statement sent by Estelle Harris’ agent.

Harris played the mother of Jason Alexander's character George Costanza on "Seinfeld."

On advertising's Madison Avenue, she was dubbed the "Queen of Commercials." "The joy of playing with her and relishing her glorious laughter was a treat. The New York City native was born on April 22, 1928. "It is with the greatest remorse and sadness to announce that Estelle Harris has passed on this evening at 6:25 p.m.,'' he said. Serenity now and always." "One of my favorite people has passed — my tv mama, Estelle Harris," Alexander wrote.

Estelle Harris, who hollered her way into TV history as George Costanza's short-fused mother on “Seinfeld” and voiced Mrs. Potato Head in the “Toy Story” ...

Estelle Harris, at right, and Don Rickles arrive at the world premiere of “Toy Story 3,” Sunday, June 13, 2010, at The El Capitan Theater in Los Angeles. Harris, who hollered her way into TV history as George Costanza’s short-fused mother on TV’s “Seinfeld” and voiced Mrs. Potato Head in the “Toy Story” franchise, has died. Estelle Harris, at right, and Don Rickles arrive at the world premiere of “Toy Story 3,” Sunday, June 13, 2010, at The El Capitan Theater in Los Angeles. Harris, who hollered her way into TV history as George Costanza’s short-fused mother on TV’s “Seinfeld” and voiced Mrs. Potato Head in the “Toy Story” franchise, has died. “Estelle is a born performer,” Stiller told The Record of Bergen County, N. J., in 1998. After the nine-season run of “Seinfeld” ended in 1998, Harris continued to appear on stage and screen. She started tapping her comedic talents in high school productions where she realized she “could make the audience get hysterical,” as she told People magazine in 1995. Thanks to you all for your kind and sweet messages and remembrances of #EstelleHarris. She would be so touched.

Estelle Harris, who hollered her way into TV history as George Costanza's short-fused mother on “Seinfeld” and voiced Mrs. Potato Head in the “Toy Story” ...

Estelle Harris, at right, and Don Rickles arrive at the world premiere of “Toy Story 3,” Sunday, June 13, 2010, at The El Capitan Theater in Los Angeles. Harris, who hollered her way into TV history as George Costanza’s short-fused mother on TV’s “Seinfeld” and voiced Mrs. Potato Head in the “Toy Story” franchise, has died. Estelle Harris, at right, and Don Rickles arrive at the world premiere of “Toy Story 3,” Sunday, June 13, 2010, at The El Capitan Theater in Los Angeles. Harris, who hollered her way into TV history as George Costanza’s short-fused mother on TV’s “Seinfeld” and voiced Mrs. Potato Head in the “Toy Story” franchise, has died. “Estelle is a born performer,” Stiller told The Record of Bergen County, N. J., in 1998. After the nine-season run of “Seinfeld” ended in 1998, Harris continued to appear on stage and screen. She started tapping her comedic talents in high school productions where she realized she “could make the audience get hysterical,” as she told People magazine in 1995. Thanks to you all for your kind and sweet messages and remembrances of #EstelleHarris. She would be so touched.

Jason Alexander has honored Estelle Harris, the late actor who played his mother on “Seinfeld" after she died over the weekend.

“The joy of playing with her and relishing her glorious laughter was a treat. The last line referenced the famous proclamation George Costanza's father used to remain calm in a ninth season episode of the legendary sitcom. Harris said fans frequently told her Estelle reminded them of their own mothers.

(JTA) — Estelle Harris, the Jewish actress who played George Costanza's mother on the sitcom “Seinfeld,” died Saturday at the age of 93.

She quickly to turning to the theater, aided by elocution lessons, and found her calling. She needs to break away from her husband. According to Deadline, the character of George’s mother was named Estelle before Harris landed the part — but her name wasn’t the only thing Harris shared with her onscreen character.

Alexander and Harris co-starred on Seinfeld together as George Costanza and Estelle Costanza respectively.

Her final role was voicing Mrs. Potato Head in 2019's Toy Story 4. “The joy of playing with her and relishing her glorious laughter was a treat. In another tweet, Alexander added, “Thanks to you all for your kind and sweet messages and remembrances of #EstelleHarris. She would be so touched. After being a commercial spokesperson and appearing in guest roles in such series like Night Court, Married...With Children, Mad About You, and Law & Order, Harris would first appear on the Seinfeld episode, “The Contest.” “One of my favorite people has passed—my tv mama, Estelle Harris,” Alexander tweeted. The late actor was also known for lending her voice to the Toy Story films’ Mrs. Potato Head. She would go on to build a strong resume as a voice actor, popping up in Futurama, Hercules, Family Guy and many others.

Harris, whose distinctive voice was sought after in various roles, unforgettably played Estelle Costanza on the 90s sitcom, often bickering with her on-screen ...

Estelle Harris, voiced Mrs. Potato Head in 'Toy Story 4' in 2019, had died. Read about Estelle Harris and Estelle Harris' career on 'Seinfeld' and who she ...

Estelle Harris — who played Estelle Costanza on “Seinfeld” — has died due to natural causes over the weekend. What happened: Harris’ family confirmed her death in a statement to Deadline on Saturday. Estelle Harris, right, and Don Rickles arrive at the world premiere of “Toy Story 3,” on Sunday, June 13, 2010, at The El Capitan Theater in Los Angeles. Harris has died at age 93, her family said.