Jennifer Coolidge was born on August 28,1961 and is an American actress.
39 Facts About Jennifer Coolidge
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In 2023, Jennifer Coolidge was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
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Jennifer Coolidge had supporting roles in the American Pie film series and the Legally Blonde film series.
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Jennifer Coolidge has regularly collaborated with Christopher Guest on his mockumentary films, such as Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, For Your Consideration, and Mascots.
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Jennifer Coolidge has appeared in the films A Cinderella Story, Click, Date Movie, Epic Movie, Promising Young Woman, Single All the Way, and Shotgun Wedding.
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On television, Jennifer Coolidge has appeared in the sitcoms Joey, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, and 2 Broke Girls, and the drama series The Watcher.
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Jennifer Coolidge garnered critical acclaim for her role as Tanya McQuoid, an insecure wealthy woman, in the HBO anthology series The White Lotus, winning a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
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Jennifer Coolidge was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Gretchen and Paul Constant Jennifer Coolidge, a plastics manufacturer.
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Jennifer Coolidge played the clarinet and went to orchestra camp for three summers as a child.
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Jennifer Coolidge attended Norwell High School, the Cambridge School of Weston, and pursued university studies at Emerson College in Boston and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City.
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Jennifer Coolidge played supporting roles in several comedy movies and guest roles on television.
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Jennifer Coolidge made her first appearance on television in the Seinfeld episode "The Masseuse".
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Jennifer Coolidge had small roles appearing in such films as A Bucket of Blood, Plump Fiction, and A Night at the Roxbury.
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Jennifer Coolidge voiced Luanne's beauty school teacher, Miss Kremzer, in a recurring role on King of the Hill.
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Jennifer Coolidge worked with The Groundlings, an improv and sketch comedy troupe based in Los Angeles.
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In 1999, Jennifer Coolidge got her big break playing Jeanine Stifler, or "Stifler's mom" in American Pie.
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Jennifer Coolidge nearly received the role of Lynette Scavo on Desperate Housewives, but it eventually went to Felicity Huffman.
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From 2004 to 2006, Jennifer Coolidge had a role in the NBC comedy series Joey as Joey Tribbiani's oversexed agent Roberta "Bobbie" Morganstern.
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Jennifer Coolidge originally starred in an episode of Friends in its final season as Amanda, an obnoxious acquaintance whom Phoebe Buffay and Monica Geller try to shake off.
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Jennifer Coolidge appeared in the children's comedy Slappy and the Stinkers, and as the voice of Aunt Fanny in the animated feature Robots.
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In late 2005, Jennifer Coolidge was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Jennifer Coolidge appeared in the 2006 film Date Movie as a spoof of Barbra Streisand's Meet the Fockers character.
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However, Variety did praise Jennifer Coolidge for providing a few bright moments with a spot-on spoof of Barbra Streisand, albeit otherwise unimpressed describing the film as "padded and repetitious".
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Jennifer Coolidge starred in the 2008 Lifetime Television film Living Proof.
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Jennifer Coolidge appeared in the 2008 film Soul Men as Rosalee.
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In 2009, Jennifer Coolidge took a dramatic role in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans as Genevieve McDonagh.
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Jennifer Coolidge reprised her role as Stifler's Mom in an American Pie sequel which opened in North America on April 6,2012.
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In June 2011, Jennifer Coolidge curated a Blake Nelson Boyd art show in New Orleans.
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Jennifer Coolidge ended up doing shows all over the country and the world for two years, Scotland included.
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In October 2011, Jennifer Coolidge began a recurring role in the CBS sitcom 2 Broke Girls as Sophie Kaczynski, a Polish neighbor of the two lead characters.
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Jennifer Coolidge was later promoted to main cast from season 2 up until the show's cancellation in 2017.
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In 2017, Jennifer Coolidge lent her voice to portray Mary Meh in The Emoji Movie.
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In 2018, Jennifer Coolidge made an appearance in Ariana Grande's music video for her song "Thank U, Next".
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Jennifer Coolidge had a supporting role in Emerald Fennell's directorial debut Promising Young Woman as the mother of Carey Mulligan's character, Cassie.
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In October 2020, Jennifer Coolidge was cast as Tanya McQuoid, a troubled wealthy woman on vacation, in Mike White's comedy-drama series The White Lotus and began filming shortly after in Hawaii.
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In 2022, Jennifer Coolidge starred in Netflix's mini-series The Watcher along with Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale.
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Jennifer Coolidge is vegan and is passionate about animal rights causes.
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Jennifer Coolidge has adopted a dog named Chuy that was rescued from a meat factory in Korea.
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Jennifer Coolidge is a sixth cousin twice removed of US President Calvin Jennifer Coolidge.