FOG BLOG ENTERTAINMENT LOG: ESTELLE HARRIS WHO PLAYED GEORGE COSTANZA'S MOM ON SEINFELD DEAD AT 93!

Estelle Harris, best known as George Costanza's mother, dead at 93.......Actor also voiced Mrs. Potato Head in the Toy Story franchise......Estelle Harris, who hollered her way into TV history as George Costanza's short-fused mother on Seinfeld and voiced Mrs. Potato Head in the Toy Story franchise, has died. She was 93.

As middle-class matron Estelle Costanza, Harris put a memorable stamp on her recurring role in the smash 1990s sitcom. With her high-pitched voice and humorously overbearing attitude, she was an archetype of maternal indignation.

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, played by Jason Alexander, fruitlessly encouraged them to do.

Harris's agent Michael Eisenstadt confirmed the actor's death in Palm Desert, Calif., on Saturday evening.

'She is the mother that everybody loves'

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.

The career-defining role came after decades on stage and screen. Born April 22, 1928, in New York City, Harris grew up in the city and later in the Pittsburgh suburb of Tarentum, Penn., where her father owned a candy store. She started tapping her comedic talents in high school productions where she realized she "could make the audience get hysterical," as she told People magazine in 1995.