Jennifer Coolidge was born on august 28, 1963 in Boston, Massachusetts. She is an American comedic actress.

A character actress who has used her blond, voluptuous features to shrewd comic effect, Jennifer Coolidge appeared in some of the most celebrated film and TV comedies of the 1990s. Perhaps best known by mainstream audiences for her role as Stifler's mom in American Pie (1999), she has also done equally memorable work in films like Christopher Guest's Best in Show (2000), which cast her as the lesbian trophy-wife of a frail and oblivious old multimillionaire.

Originally hailing from Boston, Coolidge began her professional acting career when she moved to New York, where she became a member of the Gotham City Improv group. Work with the group led her to Los Angeles, where she continued to nurture a career in improvisational acting as a member of the Groundlings, the city's legendary improv troupe. In the early '90s, Coolidge broke into television-acting through spots on various shows, including Seinfeld and the animated King of the Hill, and segued into films with her debut in the forgettable 1997 comedy Trial and Error.

The actress earned her first dose of recognition for her scene-stealing cameo as a high school student's seductive mother in the blockbuster comedy American Pie, then further endeared herself to audiences a year later in both Best in Show and The Broken Hearts Club. The latter cast her as a laconic but wildly popular hairdresser, capitalizing on the kind of deadpan glamour that was well on its way to becoming Coolidge's trademark.

She also starred in American Dreamz (2006), Click (2006) and Epic Movie (2007).

Filmography

• Barry Munday (2007)
• Igor (2008)
• Epic Movie (2007)
• "Family of the Year" (1 episode 2006)
• For Your Consideration (2006)
• "Joey" (33 episodes, 2004-2006)
• Click (2006)
• American Dreamz (2006)
• Date Movie (2006)
• If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home Now (2006)
• "Hopeless Pictures" (3 episodes, 2005)
• Robots (2005)
• Robots (2005)
• Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
• "Father of the Pride" (1 episode, 2004)
• A Cinderella Story (2004)
• "According to Jim" (3 episodes, 2003-2004)
• "Game Over" (2004)
• "Friends" (1 episode, 2003)
• Testosterone (2003)
• American Wedding (2003)
• "Sex and the City" (1 episode, 2003)
• Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)
• Carolina (2003)
• As Virgins Fall (2003)
• A Mighty Wind (2003)
• "Do Over" (1 episode, 2002)
• The 'Burbs (2002)
• Women vs. Men (2002)
• Stage on Screen: The Women (2002)
• "Sketch Pad" (2001)
• "Dead Last" (1 episode, 2001)
• Zoolander (2001)
• American Pie 2 (2001)
• Pootie Tang (2001)
• Legally Blonde (2001)
• "Frasier" (1 episode, 2001)
• "The Andy Dick Show" (1 episode, 2001)
• Down to Earth (2001)
• Best in Show (2000)
• The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy (2000)
• "Ladies Man" (1 episode, 1999)
• American Pie (1999)
• Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
• "King of the Hill" (4 episodes, 1997-1999)
• A Night at the Roxbury (1998)
• "Rude Awakening" (2 episodes, 1998)
• Men in White (1998)
• "Alright Already" (1 episode, 1998)
• Slappy and the Stinkers (1998)
• Brown's Requiem (1998)
• Trial and Error (1997)
• Plump Fiction (1997)
• Not of This Earth (1995)
• A Bucket of Blood (1995)
• "She TV" (1994)
• "Seinfeld" (1 episode, 1993)