1. Jennifer Coolidge was born on August 28,1961 and is an American actress and comedian.
44 Facts About Jennifer Coolidge
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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 collaborated with Christopher Guest on four of his mockumentary films, 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, Shotgun Wedding, and A Minecraft Movie.
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On television, Jennifer Coolidge has appeared in the sitcoms Joey, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, 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 two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe.
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Jennifer Coolidge was born in Boston, on August 28,1961, and raised in Norwell, Massachusetts.
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Jennifer Coolidge attended Norwell High School in Norwell and Cambridge School of Weston in Weston, Massachusetts, and then Emerson College in Boston and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City.
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Jennifer Coolidge made her first television appearance in the November 1993 Seinfeld episode "The Masseuse".
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Jennifer Coolidge had small roles appearing in such films as Not of This Earth, 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 June 1995, Jennifer Coolidge unsuccessfully auditioned for Saturday Night Live.
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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 appeared in 1998 in the children's comedy Slappy and the Stinkers, and as the voice of Aunt Fanny in the animated feature Robots in 2005.
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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 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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In June 2011, Jennifer Coolidge curated a Blake Nelson Boyd art show in New Orleans.
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Jennifer Coolidge hosted the "Women in Film" at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
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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 Zofia "Sophie" Kaczynski, a Polish neighbor of the two lead characters; she was later promoted to main cast from season 2 up until the show's cancellation in 2017.
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Jennifer Coolidge reprised her role as Jeanine Stifler in an American Pie sequel American Reunion which opened in North America on April 6,2012.
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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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Jennifer Coolidge won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for her performance.
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Jennifer Coolidge reprised her role for the second season, and received a second Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for the role at the 75th Emmy Awards.
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In 2021, Jennifer Coolidge starred in the Netflix Christmas romantic comedy Single All the Way alongside Michael Urie, Philemon Chambers, and Kathy Najimy.
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In 2024, Jennifer Coolidge starred in and executive produced Dito Montiel's comedy film Riff Raff.
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Jennifer Coolidge is widely considered a gay icon, often impersonated by drag queens, with Jennifer Coolidge noting in 2021 that she surrounded herself socially with gay men and women from a young age.
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Jennifer Coolidge has long been vocal about her support for the LGBT+ community.
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Jennifer Coolidge was included on Time's "The 100 Most Influential People of 2023", and was featured on the magazine cover for the issue.
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In February 2023, Jennifer Coolidge was named Woman of the Year by Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals.
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Jennifer Coolidge dated Swedish model Rafael Edholm in the 1980s, living together in New York and attending acting classes.
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In 2005, after having visited New Orleans up to ten times a year over ten years, Jennifer Coolidge purchased a house there, which was featured in some of the interior scenes in The Beguiled.
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Jennifer Coolidge tries to follow a plant-based lifestyle but eats fish.
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Jennifer Coolidge has adopted a dog named Chuy that was rescued from a meat factory in Korea.