In American Pie, that was released in 1999, Jennifer Coolidge played Steve’s mother and this made her famous and recognizable. However, she started to work in television and cinematography way back in the 1980s and still continues acting, but not in leading roles.

The actress herself thinks that she “should have stopped at American Pie and didn’t need to be all those other fat-faced ladies.” Coolidge also confesses that “90 percent of the scripts that show up on her doorstep are women who have had lots of plastic surgery, that are married to rich men.”