Jennifer Coolidge Net Worth: What Is the Fortune of Jennifer Coolidge in 2022?

By Mohit Kamboj On Aug 15, 2022

American actress Jennifer Coolidge is worth $6 million. Jennifer Coolidge has starred in numerous successful comedies, including

“American Pie,” “Legally Blonde,” and “Best in Show.” For better or worse, her role as “Stifler’s mom” in the American Pie films made her famous in the late ’90s and ’00s. Her performance in the 2021 season of the HBO series The White Lotus garnered her many accolades.

Jennifer Coolidge Early Life

To parents Gretchen and Paul Coolidge, Coolidge entered the world on August 28, 1961, in Boston, Massachusetts. To make a living, her dad was in the plastics industry. The family is multi-racial (English, Scottish, German, and Irish) and has produced four children: three daughters and a son.

Coolidge learned to play the clarinet and went to symphony camp when he was a kid. She started to enjoy the theatre as well. Before enrolling at Emerson College in Boston, Coolidge went to Norwell High School and the Cambridge School of Weston. She continued her acting education at New York’s American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

She had originally aspired to be a serious actor like Meryl Streep, but she has since shifted her focus to humorous character roles.

Jennifer Coolidge Career

The mid-1990s Seinfeld episode titled “The Masseuse” marked Coolidge’s first appearance on American television. Shortly after, she was cast in other supporting roles in films like “A Bucket of Blood,” “Plumb Fiction,” and “A Night at the Roxbury.” In addition, she has a voice acting part in “King of the Hill,” an animated comedy series.

In 1999, she was cast as “Stifler’s mom” in the hit movie American Pie. Over $235,000,000 was made from the film’s worldwide release, propelling Coolidge into the limelight. In 2001’s “American Pie 2” and 2003’s “American Wedding,” she repeated the role, further increasing her profile. She also appeared in “Legally Blonde,” another hit movie from 2001. The sequel “Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde,” in which she again starred, was not nearly as successful.

First, she appeared in “Testosterone” as a supporting player in 2003, and then in “A Cinderella Story” as the conceited stepmother opposite Hillary Duff in 2004.

Almost landing a job on “Desperate Housewives” would have been a huge boost to her career, but Felicity Huffman beat her out. She did, however, become known for her role as Joey’s agent on the NBC sitcom “Joey,” a spin-off of the hit show “Friends,” which aired from 2004 to 2006. On the final season of “Friends,” she also had a guest role.

Coolidge honed her comedic chops even more on the short-lived sketch comedy show “She TV.” As time went on, she was cast in recurring roles on shows like “Frasier,” “Sex and the City,” and “According to Jim.” She provided her voice for both “Robots” and “Aunt Fanny’s Tour of Booty,” two animated features.

When Coolidge was accepted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2005, it was a watershed moment in her career. Throughout the second decade of the 2000s, she acted in a variety of films, including three Adam Sandler comedies: Click, Date Movie, and Epic Movie. The starring role in “Epic Movie” marked Coolidge’s acting debut. The humorous film was met with lukewarm reviews.

She has also appeared in several Christopher Guest mockumentaries, such as Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, and For Your Consideration.

Both “Thank God You’re Here” and “The Closer” starred Coolidge in 2007. In “The Secret Life of an American Teenager,” she portrayed a call girl and became a series regular during the show’s second season. During the following year, she became known for her roles in both the Lifetime Television original film “Living Proof” and the film “Soul Men.”

Coolidge shifted gears and took on a dramatic part in the 2009 film “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans,” which had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. In the same year, she appeared in the dark comedy picture “ExTerminators,” co-starring alongside Amber Heard and Heather Graham. She made her acting debut alongside Hillary Duff in the 2010 film “Beauty & the Briefcase,” which was adapted from the book “Diary of a Working Girl.”

In the 2012 film “American Reunion,” Coolidge appeared once again in her role as Stifler’s mother. In addition, she started playing a recurring part on the sitcom “2 Broke Girls,” where she continued to appear up until the year 2017. In the year 2020, Coolidge was in the supporting cast of the film “Promising Young Woman,” which was met with acclaim upon its initial release.

She also had a major role in “The White Lotus,” a film that was released in 2021 and received a lot of positive feedback from critics.

Jennifer Coolidge Personal Life

When it comes to her personal life, Coolidge is notoriously discreet. Chris Kattan, a comedian, has been linked to her romantically, but she has never verified the rumors or spoken publicly about the relationship beyond the photos the two have been in together. During interviews, she had mentioned that her participation in the “American Pie” film series had led her to meet and date younger guys, but she had said nothing else about the subject.

Among the many charitable causes that have benefited from Coolidge’s generosity are those concerned with AIDS aid and research, as well as those advocating for the rights of animals. She owns a puppy named Chuy and describes herself as a “animal person.”