Estelle Harris
Estelle Harris was born in Manhattan, New York, United States on April 4th, 1928 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 93, Estelle Harris biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Estelle Harris (née Nussbaum, born April 4, 1928) is an American actress, singer, and comedian.
She is best known for her role as Estelle Costanza on Seinfeld, Mrs.'s voice, and she is easily identifiable by her distinctive, high-pitched voice. Potato Head of Toy Story franchise and Muriel on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody are two separate articles.
Early life and education
Harris was born in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, New York, on April 22, 1928, the younger of two daughters of Isaac ("Ira") and Anna Nussbaum, Polish Jewish immigrants who owned a candy store and a soda shop. For several years, her birthdate was incorrectly identified as April 4. The correct date was not revealed until after her death. The family moved to Tarentum, Pennsylvania, in 1935, when she was 7 years old. She graduated from Tarentum High School.
Personal life and death
Harris met window repair salesman Sy Harris at a dance in 1952, after returning to New York. They were married six months later. They had two sons, Eric (born 1957) and Glen (born 1961), as well as a granddaughter Taryn (born 1964). Eric is a social worker, Glen is a music promoter who doubled as his mother's unofficial boss, and Taryn is a former Nassau County police officer with a disability. Three grandsons and one great-grandson were also born in Harris. Harris discovered acting roles in amateur productions, then in dinner theatre and commercials after her children began school.
The couple's car burst a tire and flipped twice on September 20, 2001, but they managed to avoid serious injury. Sy Harris died on January 11, 2021, one year before he deferred his wife by a year.
Harris died of natural causes at her Palm Desert, California, at the age of 93.
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.
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."
After her children grew up, Harris pursued acting and achieved early success in television commercials, even logging 23 spots in a year at one point. In one of her most-famous commercials, she energetically sang the praises of Handi-Wrap II.
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 portrayed the old woman who was actually a projection of the Nechani Spirits 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).
In Toy Story 2 (1999), she provided the voice of Mrs. Potato Head and would continue to reprise the role for the rest of the franchise. In 2005, she lent her voice to Mama Gunda in Tarzan II. In The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, Harris had a recurring role as Muriel. In 2007, she appeared in Brad Paisley's music video for the song "Online." Harris reprised her role of Mrs. Potato Head in Toy Story 3 (2010). 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. Harris retired from acting in 2015.
Harris came out of her retirement to reprise her role of Mrs. Potato Head in Toy Story 4 (2019), which was her final film role.