Estelle Harris, who became one of TV's most beloved characters as George Costanza's perpetually nagging mother on 'Seinfeld,' has died at the age of 93
and took on minor roles throughout the 1980s and early Nineties, including Sergio Leone’s 1984 gangster filmSeinfeld,
appearing in the Season Four episode “The Contest” in which the main characters bet on who could hold off masturbating the longest.in 2012. “I asked them, ‘What did he do?’ and they all started laughing. I said, ‘Oh, no, it’s impossible. On TV? It’s impossible.’ But it was very possible, and it was funny.” Harris noted in an interview that one of her favorite quotes — “Too bad you can’t dofor a living. You’d be very successful at it.
Over the course of six seasons, she became a constant foil to her son George, humorously haranguing him over his career, lack of romantic prospects and virtually everything else. Her final appearance was in the show’s series finale “The Finale, Part 2.” “They yell [them] at me and I laugh and wave as I’m glad that they still remember and love the character,” she said in an interview
about fans repeating her best-known phrases. “I don’t take it personally. Because I played a character that was written for me and the writing was wonderful.”
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