Estelle Costanza

Estelle Costanza (played by Estelle Harris) is a fictional character on the US television sitcom Seinfeld (1989-1998). She is the mother of George Costanza and is married to Frank Costanza.

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Estelle Harris - US - Television - Sitcom - Seinfeld - 1989 - 1998 - George Costanza - Frank Costanza

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The stereotypical overbearing, obnoxious sitcom mother, Estelle spends virtually all her time screeching at Frank and George. She and Frank have a love-hate relationship: they seemingly can't stand each other, and yet stay together out of habit (or because no else can stand them.) They were briefly separated, however.

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Stereotypical - Love-hate relationship - Separated

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George lived with Frank and Estelle until well into his adult life. He is often humiliated by her very existence, and largely blames her for his being a neurotic failure. He is still emotionally tied to her, however; During his parents' separation, he fretted constantly over the collapse of his family—not because he loved or even liked them, but because he couldn't stand the thought of his parents being "out there" in the dating world with him.

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She maintains cool, distant relations with Jerry's parents, Morty and Helen Seinfeld, because she thinks they are snobs. The Seinfelds do in fact avoid the Costanzas, not out of superiority, but because they can't stand them. She has a flirtatious friendship with George's friend Kramer, however, the source of much friction between her and Frank.

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Jerry - Morty - Helen Seinfeld - Kramer

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Although Estelle's religion was never mentioned on the show, both Larry David and Jason Alexander considered her to be Jewish. David referred to George as "half-Jewish" in an interviewhttp://www.jewishworldreview.com/1001/larry.david.asp, and Alexander stated that he had no fixed ideas about George's ethnicity until the casting of Harris as his mother, and said that "she can't be anything but Jewish."http://www.jewishjournal.com/archive/10.20.00/art.10.20.00.html

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Larry David - Jason Alexander - Jewish

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