Estelle Harris: 5 Things About The ‘Seinfeld’ ‘Toy Story’ Actress Dead At 93
hollywoodlife.comEstelle Harris passed away on Saturday (April 2) in her home in Palm Desert, California from natural causes.
The beloved actress, who played George Costanza’s (Jason Alexander) short-fused mother Estelle on the iconic sitcom Seinfeld, was 93. “It is with the greatest remorse and sadness to announce that Estelle Harris has passed on this evening at 6:25pm,” her son Glen Harris said in a statement to Deadline. “Her kindness, passion, sensitivity, humor, empathy and love were practically unrivaled, and she will be terribly missed by all those who knew her.” Find out all about the inimitable actress, below.
Related Gallery 1. Estelle hailed from Manhattan. Born Estelle Nussbaum on April 22, 1928 in the Manhattan borough of New York City, the star later moved to the suburb of Tarentum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where her father made a living as the proprietor of a candy store, according to the Chicago Tribune.
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. 2.
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