Jennifer Coolidge Bio

Jennifer Coolidge, a versatile actress who plays many characters, as well as an experimental comedian. She is most well-known for her performance as the mother of Stifler in American Pie (1999). Born on August 28, 1961 in Boston, Massachusetts to Gretchen (Knauff) who was a plastics manufacturer, as well as Paul Constant Coolidge on August 28 in 1962. Young Coolidge dreamed of being an actor. She graduated from Emerson College and Norwell High School in Boston, Massachusetts in 1985 with a Bachelor's degree in Theatre. Then, she moved to New York, where she was a member of the Gotham City Improv Group. Then she relocated to New York and was a member of the Gotham City improv troupe. She was a long-time participant in "The Groundlings" a comedy group. Her first appearance on television was an appearance as a guest on the NBC show Seinfeld (1989) in which she played a sexy masseuse who is unwilling to provide professional services to Jerry. She was a regular character in the sketch show of ABC She TV (1994), later, she briefly appeared on Fox's Saturday Night Special (1996) in which she was an actor and writer. Her big screen debut came as nurse in Not of This Earth (1995) followed by Trial and Error (1997). She continued to work on television and was in lesser roles in a variety of feature films. Her breakthrough role came in American Pie (1999). She played a hot mother who is a booze-loving, drunken woman who is enticed by her son. In American Pie 2 (2001) she reinvented the character. Then she reprised her role in the film alongside Reese Witherspoon as "Paulette" in "Legally Blonde". Coolidge was also a part of a variety of TV comedy series with major guest roles on Frasier (1993) as well as Sex and the City (1998). Then, she was named Joey's agent "Bobbie Morgenstern" in the sitcom ABC's Joey (2004). She was in 37 episodes over two seasons.