Jeannie Louise Gaffigan is an American actress, producer, and comedy writer.
19 Facts About Jeannie Gaffigan
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Jeannie Gaffigan is best known as a writer and executive producer for The Jim Gaffigan Show, a show loosely based on her own family life with her husband, Jim Gaffigan.
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Jeannie Gaffigan's father was a theater and film critic for the Milwaukee Journal.
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Jeannie Gaffigan graduated from Marquette University's Diederich College of Communication in 1992.
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Jeannie Gaffigan began her career as a stage actress in regional theater and upon moving to New York, performed in sketch comedy groups and small theater companies where playwrights developed original plays.
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Jeannie Gaffigan founded the not-for-profit theater company Shakespeare on the Playground, dedicated to teaching literacy and production to urban youth through the performance of full Shakespearean plays.
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Jeannie Gaffigan began writing and producing comedy with her friend and future husband Jim Gaffigan.
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Since then, Jeannie Gaffigan has helped write and produce all five of Jim's comedy specials, serving as the director of his fifth special.
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Jeannie Gaffigan co-wrote an animated series called Pale Force, starring Jim Jeannie Gaffigan and Conan O'Brien, for which she received an Emmy Nomination.
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Jeannie Gaffigan worked on it with her brothers Paul Noth, a New Yorker cartoonist, and Patrick Noth, a comedy writer and composer.
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In 2013, Jeannie Gaffigan began developing a pilot with her husband titled The Jim Jeannie Gaffigan Show.
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Since April 8,2016, Jeannie Gaffigan has appeared in a marketing campaign for the 2017 Chrysler Pacifica starring Jim Jeannie Gaffigan and the couple's children.
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In March 2016, she received a Christopher Award for the Season 1 episode of The Jim Jeannie Gaffigan Show, "My Friend the Priest".
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Jeannie Gaffigan received the Eloquentia Perfecta award from Fordham University for her work in Television and Media.
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In June 2018, the Gaffigans released a short video written and directed by Gaffigan, starring Jim, Marre, Jack, Katie, Michael, and Patrick Gaffigan called A Short Film by @JeannieGaffigan.
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Jeannie Gaffigan started dating Jim Jeannie Gaffigan in 2000 after they had met in New York.
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Jeannie Gaffigan is Catholic and Jim has jokingly referred to her as a "Shiite Catholic" relative to him.
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Jeannie Gaffigan's left vocal fold remained paralyzed, and she underwent type 1 thyroplasty to restore her voice in 2019.
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Jeannie Gaffigan wrote a book about her diagnosis, her recovery, and the life lessons she learned from this experience.