This petite (5'3"), sixtyish redheaded actress found almost cult status playing the screechy-voiced Estelle Costanza, mother to Jason Alexander and wife to Jerry Stiller on "Seinfeld" (NBC, 1992-). Estelle Harris is one of those performers to whom success came late. She was a Long Island homemaker raising her children and dabbling, when she could, in dinner theater and TV commercials. It is a scenario not unlike that of another Estelle--Getty--who raised children in Queens before hitting it big after age 60 as Sophia Petrillo on "The Golden Girls". In Harris' case, she had had a few film roles
