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Jason Alexander is mourning the loss of his “TV mama” Estelle Harris.
The actress, who played George Costanza’s (Alexander) short-fused mother on “Seinfeld,” passed away at age 93. The star’s agent Michael Eisenstadt confirmed her death in Palm Desert, California, on Saturday evening.
“One of my favorite people has passed – my tv mama, Estelle Harris,” tweeted the actor. “The joy of playing with her and relishing her glorious laughter was a treat. I adore you, Estelle. Love to your family. Serenity now and always.”
The 62-year-old also thanked his followers for their condolences.
ACTRESS ESTELLE HARRIS DEAD AT 93
Jason Alexander played Estelle Harris’ son on “Seinfeld.”
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“Thanks to you all for your kind and sweet messages and remembrances of #EstelleHarris,” he shared. “She would be so touched. As am I. And as she would say, ‘WHY CANT YOU BE MORE LIKE LLOYD BRAUN!!??’”
As middle-class matron Estelle Costanza, Harris put a memorable stamp on her recurring role in the smash 1990s sitcom. Trading insults and absurdities with her on-screen husband, played by Jerry Stiller, Harris helped create a parental pair that would leave even a psychiatrist helpless to do anything but hope they’d move to Florida — as their son fruitlessly encouraged them to do.
Viewers of all backgrounds would tell her she was just like their own mothers, Harris often said.
“She is the mother that everybody loves, even though she’s a pain in the neck,” she told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 1998.
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Estelle Harris as Estelle Costanza, Jason Alexander as George Costanza and Jerry Stiller as Frank Costanza in “Seinfeld.”
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Born April 22, 1928, in New York City, Harris grew up in the city and later in the Pittsburgh suburb of Tarentum, Pennsylvania, where her father owned…
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