Jennifer Coolidge has certainly had a major career resurgence in the past couple of years thanks to her main role as Tanya McQuoid on HBO's satirical hit The White Lotus. The actress won an Emmy last year for her performance in the first season. It's funny because Coolidge almost turned the role down she revealed to Today last February I was too vain I didn't want to go on camera because I sort of destroyed myself during COVID and didn't feel like I was in shape for it.
But before she joined the series created written, and directed by Mike White Coolidge had a long, varied screen career. Most famously she plays Stifler's Mom in the American Pie movies the veteran performer was also in hit comedies like Legally Blonde Best In Show and Click. She was a regular as well on 2 Broke Girls and had a recurring part on "The Secret Life of the American Teenager."
Coolidge is The Masseuse on Seinfeld
Jennifer Coolidge's first television role was as Jodi the title character of Seinfeld Season 5 episode 9 The Masseuse. Jodi is Jerry's Jerry Seinfeld newest girlfriend but her refusal to give him a massage drives him up the wall. She ultimately tells him Listen I massage who I want when I want! Meanwhile George Jason Alexander even though he's already dating someone is deeply attracted to Jodi because she hates him.
In an interview with G Q in 2015 Coolidge revealed that she had repeatedly lied on her resume to get the Seinfeld role. I'd gone to a school called the American Academy of Dramatic Arts up in Pasadena, and I'd just named all these shows and all these different theaters at the school as if they played there she added. She got help as well from a mother and daughter at a boutique who helped her find the right audition outfit via Giant Freakin Robot .
Coolidge may have changed her background to get her foot in the door but her performance at the audition was so good that she received compliments from Julia Louis-Dreyfus of all people who played Elaine on Seinfeld. It was truly a sign of things to come for the immensely talented actress.
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Over the course of nine seasons and 180 episodes Seinfeld became one of the shows that defined the 1990s. It also left an indelible mark on television comedy in the wake of its controversial finale in May of 1998. Created by Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David and based on a fictionalized version of the former Seinfeld was deliberately a show about nothing. Still its focus on the superficial and mundane never stopped it from asking the questions that really matter like: Can a person die from an odor? What makes someone sponge-worthy? And can we have soup? The answers Don't be ridiculous, it's complicated, and no, no soup for you .
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