After years without any acting success, Jennifer Coolidge landed her first big break in 1993 at the age of 32. She was cast as a masseuse who dated Jerry Seinfeld on the hit sitcom "Seinfeld," and as she told GQ, it came as quite a shock. "I didn't really have any jobs before that. I only had lies on my resume," Coolidge confessed, adding that she had just named theaters at her school and invented shows that could have plausibly been performed there. "You have to do that if you have a blank resume, until you start getting jobs. Then you can slowly erase the lies," she added. "I'd love to get my hands on that resume now."
She wasn't even sure what to wear for the audition. "I didn't have any flattering outfits," Coolidge noted, explaining how a couple of store employees put together an outfit for her. Julia Louis-Dreyfus also helped her out at the table read, boosting her confidence by telling her she'd been great: "I knew I sucked, but she was still really cool about it."
But as Coolidge told Vulture, it was still a bittersweet moment: her first on-air role came right as her mother was in the final stages of pancreatic cancer. "My mother's last words to me were, like, 'I can't believe it,'" she recalled. "But she was thrilled because she didn't think anything was going to happen."
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