A voluptuous blonde actress who has made a career of playing bimbos despite her more experimental comedy background, Massachusetts native Jennifer Coolidge took her Emerson College degree to New York City and joined the Gotham City Improv group before heading to Los Angeles to become a member of the famed Groundlings. Discovered in the early 1990s, she was cast in her first television series guest role on NBC’s “Seinfeld”, playing a masseuse who won’t offer her professional services to boyfriend Jerry in a 1993 episode. The following year she was a featured regular on the short-lived sketch series “She TV” on ABC. Another short-lived sketch comedy series, “Saturday Night Special” (Fox, 1995-96), featured Coolidge as writer and cast member, though this would-be “Saturday Night Live” (NBC) competitor that first aired in mid-April didn’t make it through May.
