Colleagues and fans share favorite Seinfeld moments as they mourn the loss of Estelle Harris.
, and riffing off that character in the. 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. She died at 93, only days before her 94th birthday.
Born in New York City to Polish-Jewish immigrants in 1928 as Estelle Nussbaum, she moved with her family at age seven to Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, where shesuffered antisemitic taunts but found an outlet in theater projects. She later moved back to New York and married Sy Harris, a “salesman of window treatments,” and put her acting career on hold as she raised three kids. A production of
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