Jackie Hoffman's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) PB&J Otter Mrs. Crane Dilbert Dilmom

Main Movie Roles 2005 - Robots 2004 - A Dirty Shame 2004 - Garden State 2003 - Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde 2001 - Down 1992 - Mo' Money

BIOGRAPHY:

Jacqueline Laura Hoffman known as Jackie Hoffman, is an American actress and stand-up comedian known for her facially-contorting expressions, and one-woman shows of Jewish-themed original songs and monologues. She is a veteran of Chicago's famed The Second City comedy improv group.

Hoffman won the Joseph Jefferson Award, Chicago's venerable theatre award, during her eight-year tenure with the Second City troupe.
Hoffman has starred in the following solo comedy performances: "If You Call This Living," "The Kvetching Continues," "Jackie Hoffman's Hanukkah," "Jackie's Kosher Khristmas" and "Jackie's Valentine's Day Massacre," among others. Hoffman also joined the three woman comic team behind "The J.A.P. Show, Jewish American Princesses of Comedy," at the Actors' Temple in April 2007.
She performed numerous roles in David and Amy Sedaris' 2001 comic play, The Book of Liz, winning an Obie Award. Her other theatrical credits include The Sisters Rosensweig, Straightjacket, Incident at Cobbler's Knob, and One Woman Shoe, for which she won a Jeff Award. In addition, she regularly performs at Joe's Pub in one-woman concerts.
In 2002, Hoffman was cast in the musical Hairspray on Broadway, playing the roles of Prudy Pingleton, Gym Teacher, Matron and Denizen of Baltimore. She won the 2003 Theatre World Award for her performance. She co-starred as Calliope, muse of epic poetry, in the rock musical Xanadu on Broadway, from July 2007 to September 2008. Hoffman most recently starred as Grandmama in the Broadway musical The Addams Family, which opened at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on April 8, 2010 and closed on December 31, 2011. In 2010, she also parodied Lady Gaga's hit-single, Alejandro.

She has acted in the movies, Kissing Jessica Stein, Mo' Money, Garden State, Down, Queer Duck: The Movie, Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde, and A Dirty Shame and was the voice of the Water Cooler in Robots.
In addition to cameoing on the television show Curb Your Enthusiasm, she has appeared in many series, including Strangers with Candy, Hope and Faith, Ed, Starved, Cosby, 30 Rock, One Life to Live and was the voice of Dilmom on Dilbert.
Hoffman provided the voice of "Mary Phillips, the Talk Radio host", in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Despite her frequent stage banter on her dislike of children, Hoffman did a surprising turn as the voices of the Gate to Fairy-tale Land and the Witch's Magic Wand in the Dora the Explorer movie Dora's Fairytale Adventure. She has also been a frequent guest on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
In 2007 she was featured in the film Making Trouble, a tribute to female Jewish comedians, produced by the Jewish Women’s Archive.
In 2011 Hoffman appeared as a cameo in The Sitter as Mrs. Sapperstein. In 2012, she has had a recurring role in The New Normal.


TRIVIA:

• She was nominated for a 1994 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Revue for "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been Mellow?" at the Second City Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
• Won an Obie Award (Off Broadway) in 2001 for playing-of-several-roles in her good friend Amy Sedaris's hilarious "The Book of Liz".
• She was awarded the 1993 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Revue for "Disgruntled Employee Picnic or the Postman Always" at the Second City Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
• She performs a one woman cabaret show.
• She has appeared in several one woman shows: "If You Call This Living", "The Kvetching Continues", "Jackie Hoffman's Hanukkah", "Jackie's Kosher Khristmas"and "Jackie's Valentine's Day Massacre" are some of the shows.
• She was a 2003 Theatre World Award winner for "Hairspray".
• Won the Joseph Jefferson Award, Chicago's version of the Tony, which she won during her eight-year stint in the Windy City's famed Second City improv group.