Jennifer Coolidge was born in 1963 in Boston, Massachusetts. Before acting, she was a cocktail waitress and was still taking drama classes. Her acting teacher was a playwright, Julie Bovasso but Coolidge wasn’t too fond of the way she made everyone a ‘class pet’.

She started her career in New York and was part of a Gotham City Improv group and later on continued in LA joining a comedy troupe called ‘The Groundlings’. In 1993, a casting director spotted her there and cast her in the hit sitcom Seinfeld where she played Jody, one of Jerry’s girlfriends. From there, she has done a lot of comedy sketches on She-TV and Saturday Night Special . She has also guest starred in TV series, King Of The Hill , Ladies’ Man with Alfred Molina, Frasier, Rude Awakening , King of the Hill , Alright Already, Bucket of Blood , The Monroes , National Lampoon's Men in White and The Andy Dick Show.

In September 2001, she was a featured actress in a Broadway play called The Women . Here, Coolidge plays Edith Potter; a hilarious society wife with no interest in raising a family. What was particularly funny about the play was that even if it has been going on for seven years, Edith is pregnant in virtually every scene.

Jennifer Coolidge is now a succesful actress with big-time roles in movies such as Legally Blonde , American Pie 2 , The Series of Unfortunate Events, A Cinderella Story, Robots and will soon star opposite Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale, Christopher Walken and Sean Astin in the post-production movie Click.