Biography
As one of the star members of Christopher Guest's mockumentary troupe, Coolidge brought her wicked smarts to stupid hilarious characters in "Best in Show" (2000), "A Mighty Wind" (2003) and "For Your Consideration" (2006). She won raves for her Botoxed evil stepmother turn opposite Hilary Duff in the hit "A Cinderella Story" (2004) and charmed Reese Witherspoon as the sweet but spacey manicurist Paulette in "Legally Blonde" (2001) and "Legally …
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Career Milestones
2012 | Reprised role of Stifler's Mom along with original cast in "American Reunion" | |
2009 | Appeared in Werner Herzog's "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" | |
2008 | Guest starred on the first season of "The Secret Life of the American Teenager" (ABC Family) as a call girl; had a recurring role on the second season as the fiancé of Ben's dad | |
2007 | Had a recurring role on FX's drama series "Nip/Tuck" | |
2006 | Re-teamed with Guest to play a producer in "For Your Consideration" | |
2006 | Cast in the comedy film "Date Movie, as a spoof of Barbra Streisand's "Meet the Fockers" character | |
2006 | Played Mandy Moore's mother in Paul Weitz's political satire "American Dreamz" | |
2005 | Voiced Aunt Fanny in the animated feature "Robots" | |
2004 | Played a regular on the NBC sitcom "Joey" as Joey's agent Bobbie Morganstern | |
2004 | Appeared in "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events," based on the books by Daniel Handler | |
2004 | Portrayed the wicked stepmother in the modern day fairytale "A Cinderella Story" | |
2003 | Cast in a recurring role on ABC's "According to Jim" as Jim's sister | |
2003 | Returned as Stifler's Mom in the comedy sequel "American Wedding" | |
2003 | Reprised role as Paulette for the sequel "Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde" | |
2003 | Re-teamed with Christopher Guest for the mockumentary "A Mighty Wind" | |
2001 | Appeared on Broadway in the revival of "The Women" | |
2001 | Reprised role as Stifler's Mom in "American Pie 2" | |
2001 | Played Paulette, the manicurist, who befriends the lead character Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) in "Legally Blonde" | |
2001 | Re-teamed with Rock in the comedy "Pootie Tang" | |
2001 | Played the scheming wife of an elderly mogul (Chris Rock) in "Down to Earth" | |
2000 | Played the gold-digging owner of Rhapsody in White, a perfectly manicured poodle and returning champion, in Christopher Guest's "Best in Show" | |
1999 | Breakthrough role as Stifler's Mom, the consummate 'MILF' in ensemble teen "American Pie" | |
1998 | Cast in a two-episode recurring role on the Showtime series "Rude Awakening" | |
1998 | Had a cameo as a desirable police officer in "A Night at the Roxbury" | |
1997 | Voiced a recurring role on Fox's animated series "King of the Hill" as Luanne's beauty school teacher Miss Kremzer | |
1997 | Acted in the comedy feature "Trial and Error" | |
1996 | Wrote and joined cast for the short-lived sketch comedy series "Saturday Night Special" (Fox) | |
1995 | Featured in the Roger Corman sci-fi/horror presentations "Not of This Earth" and "Bucket of Blood" (both aired on Showtime) | |
1994 | Was a regular on the short-lived sketch comedy series "She TV" (ABC) | |
1993 | Made TV debut on an episode of "Seinfeld" (NBC) as a masseuse who refused to offer her professional talents to boyfriend Jerry | |
| Relocated to Los Angeles and joined The Groundlings comedy troupe | ||
| Moved to NYC and joined the Gotham City Improv group | ||