Estelle Harris

Career Harris began her career in amateur productions and in dinner theater before moving on to regional theaters and summer stock productions across the country.

In 1977, Harris began her long format acting career in the film Looking Up about three generations of a working-class Jewish family in New York City. She became widely known for her supporting role as Estelle Costanza on Seinfeld. "She is the mother that everybody loves, even though she's a pain in the neck," Harris told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 1998. Despite her iconic role, she was highly reclusive.

In Star Trek: Voyager, she appeared in the third-season episode "Sacred Ground", which aired on October 20, 1996. She played a small role as Bridget in Out to Sea (1997). Harris reprised her role of Mrs. Potato Head in Toy Story 3 (2010) and Toy Story 4 (2019), the latter of which was her final film role. She portrayed Bertha Kristal, the mother of CBGB founder Hilly Kristal, in CBGB (2013).

Her other voice work included Lula in Dave the Barbarian, Mama Lipsky in Kim Possible, Thelma in The Proud Family, Mrs. Turtle in Mickey Mouse Works and House of Mouse, Death's mother in Family Guy, the Old Lady Bear in Brother Bear (2003), and Audrey in Home on the Range (2004). She also provided the voice of Marty's wife in the American Dad! episode "In Country...Club." She appeared in Promoted (2015) as Sylvia Silver.

She retired from acting in 2015, only briefly returning to reprise the role of Mrs. Potato Head in Toy Story 4 (2019), which was her final film role. Sy Harris died on January 11, 2021, predeceasing his wife by one year.

On April 2, 2022, Harris died of natural causes at her home in Palm Desert, California, at the age of 93 twenty days before her 94th birthday.

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1977 Fiddler on the Roof Yente 1979 Funny Girl Mrs. Strakosh An Evening Dinner Theatre 1982–1983 The Desert Song Susan Darien Dinner Theatre 1995 Annie Warbucks Commissioner Harriet Doyle Frauenthal Center for the Performing Arts