NEW YORK (AP) – Estelle Harris, who was temporarily portrayed as George Costanza’s mother in “Seinfeld” and Mrs. Potato Senior in the “Toy Story” franchise. He is 93 years old.

As middle-class matron Estelle Costanza, Harris made an unforgettable stamp on her recurring role in the ’90s sitcom. In her loud voice and funny demeanor she is the archetype of motherly anger.

Exchanging insults and nonsense with his on-screen wife, actor Jerry StillerHarris helped create a pair of parents who would leave even a helpless psychiatrist to do anything but hope that they would move on. Florida – because their son, played by Jason Alexander, persuaded them in vain to do so.

Harris’ agent Michael Eisenstadt confirmed the actor’s death in Palm Desert, Calif., On Saturday night.

Harris would often say that viewers in all backgrounds told him that he was like their mothers.

“She was a mother that everyone loved, despite the pain in her neck,” she told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 1998.

Defining the role of the career came decades later on stage and on screen. Born April 22, 1928 in New York City, Harris grew up in the city and later in the Pittsburgh suburb of Tarentum, Pennsylvania, where his father owned a candy store. He began using his comic book talents in high school performances, where he realized that “audiences can be hysterical,” as he told People magazine in 1995.

Since the end of Seinfeld’s nine seasons in 1998, Harris has continued to appear on stage and screen. He voices Mrs. Potato Head in the 1999 animated film “Toy Story 2” and, among other roles, played the recurring character Muriel in the popular Disney Channel sitcom “The Suite Life of Zack & Cody.”

She left her show business when she got married in the early 1950s, but continued acting in amateur bands, dinners, and commercials as her three children grew up. Eventually, he began appearing in guest roles on television shows, including the legal comedy Night Trial, and in films, with 1984 director Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in America.

His debut on “Seinfeld” took place on one of the show’s most popular stages: the 1992 Emmy Award-winning “Competition,” in which four main characters compete with each other to efficiently avoid trouble. solo. “it”.

Harris will appear in another dozen episodes of “The Show About Nothing”. She sighs at Paella, yelling at George on her parents ’bed and spreading about her husband’s weird party on Frank’s screen, the festival.

“Estelle was a born actress,” Stiller told The Record of Bergen County, NJ, in 1998. “I just follow what I have and it comes back the same way.”

Harris, however, sees the sympathy of her character and often says that Estelle is frustrated with her son’s troubled husband and seems lazy.

To viewers, he told an interviewer in 1998: “Look at it as funny, charming and loud. But I’m not playing like that. I’ll interpret it suffering”.

He is survived by three children, three grandchildren and a great-grandson.