Biography
Jackie Hoffman is an American actress, singer, and comedian best known for her one-woman shows including Jewish-themed original songs and monologues. She has previously performed with Chicago’s renowned The Second City comedic improv troupe.
Age
She is 63 years old as of November 29 2023. She was born in 1960 in Queens, New York, United States. Her real name is Jacqueline Laura Hoffman.
Husband
She is married to jazz trumpet player Steve Smyth. She is acquainted with Stephen Colbert and his wife Evelyn McGee-Colbert, and humorously made a commotion when she failed to grab Evelyn’s bouquet during the couple’s 1993 wedding.
Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $4 million.
Grease
In the 10-episode Paramount+ series Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies, Hoffman played Assistant Principal McGee, the assistant principal of Rydell High School who eventually becomes the principal after Grease. The series takes place in 1954, four years before the events of Grease, and follows four dissatisfied and misfit students who team together to cause the moral panic that would permanently change Rydell High and become the founding mothers of the first female high school gang, known as the “Pink Ladies”.
Podcast
In 2020, Hoffman played Nicky in the musical podcast Propaganda!. PROPAGANDA! tells the humorous story of a hidden government agency entrusted with covering up the messiest political problems, and boy have they been busy! Rookie is forced to take over as director of the Bureau due to a frightening change of circumstances, and he is soon confronted with the worst scandal since Watergate! Rookie must act swiftly to save the country from destruction and the Bureau from the villainous Agent X. With a score brimming with vibrant pop and jazzy elements and a Tony Award-winning, star-studded cast, Propaganda! takes the podcast-musical genre by storm and delivers a thrilling and captivating hour and a half.
Hairspray
Hoffman was cast in the Broadway musical Hairspray in 2002, as Prudy Pingleton, Gym Teacher, Matron, and Denizen of Baltimore. The musical premiered in Seattle in 2002 before moving to Broadway later that year. Hairspray won eight Tony Awards in 2003, including one for Best Musical, out of thirteen nominations. It played for 2,642 performances before closing on January 4, 2009. Hairspray has also had national tours, a West End staging, various foreign productions, and was converted into a 2007 musical film. The London production was nominated for an unprecedented eleven Laurence Olivier Awards, winning four, including Best New Musical.
Career
Hoffman won the Joseph Jefferson Grant, Chicago’s revered auditorium grant, during her eight-year residency with the Second City company. She featured in the accompanying independent satire exhibitions: “In the event that You Refer to This Living as”, “The Kvetching Proceeds”, “Jackie Hoffman’s Hanukkah”, “A Chanukah Charol”, “Jackie’s Genuine Khristmas”, and “Jackie’s Valentine’s Day Slaughter”, among others. Hoffman additionally joined the three-lady comic group behind “The J.A.P. Show, Jewish American Princesses of Parody”, at the Entertainers’ Sanctuary in April 2007.
She played out various jobs in David and Amy Sedaris’ 2001 comic play, The Book of Liz, winning an Obie Grant. Her other dramatic credits incorporate The Sisters Rosensweig, Restraint, Occurrence at Shoemaker’s Handle, and One Lady Shoe, for which she won a Jeff Grant. Moreover, she consistently performs at Joe’s Bar in one-lady shows.
She won the 2003 Entertainment business World Honor for her exhibition. She co-featured as Calliope, dream of epic verse, in the stone melodic Xanadu on Broadway, from July 2007 to September 2008. Hoffman featured as Grandmama in the Broadway melodic The Addams Family, which opened at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater on April 8, 2010 and shut on December 31, 2011. In 2010, she additionally ridiculed Woman Crazy’s hit-single, Alejandro. She played Madame Dilly and different jobs in the 2014 Broadway restoration of On the Town until the show shut in September 2015. She played Mrs. Teavee in the Broadway creation of Charlie and the Chocolate Production line, which opened on April 23, 2017 and shut January 14, 2018. In the late spring of 2018, she joined the cast of the Public Yiddish Theater’s creation of Fidler Afn Dakh as Yente the relational arranger.
Hoffman has acted in the films Kissing Jessica Stein, Mo’ Cash, Nursery State, Down, Strange Duck: The Film, Legitimately Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde, and A Filthy Disgrace, and was the voice of the Water Cooler in Robots.
As well as cameoing on the network show Control Your Energy, she has showed up in numerous series, including Troublesome Individuals, Outsiders with Candy, Trust and Confidence, Ed, Starved, Cosby, 30 Stone, One Life to Live, The Other Two, Gilmore Young ladies: A Year in the Life, and was the voice of Dilmom on Dilbert.
Hoffman gave the voice of “Mary Phillips, the Live Radio personality”, in the computer game Stupendous Burglary Auto: San Andreas. Regardless of her continuous stage talk on her aversion of youngsters, Hoffman did an astounding turn as the voices of the Door to Fantasy Land and the Witch’s Enchanted Wand in the Dora the Pilgrim film, Dora’s Fantasy Experience. She has likewise been a successive visitor on Late Night with Conan O’Brien.
In 2007 she was highlighted in the film Raising Hell, a recognition for female Jewish entertainers, created by the Jewish Ladies’ Document. In 2011, Hoffman showed up as an appearance in The Sitter as Mrs. Sapperstein. In 2012, she has played a repetitive part in The New Typical. She showed up in an appearance job in the Oscar-winning film Birdman in 2014.
In 2017, she featured in the main time of the FX series entitled Quarrel: Bette and Joan in the job of Joan Crawford’s servant, Mamacita, for which she was designated for the Early evening Emmy Grant for Remarkable Supporting Entertainer in a Restricted Series or Film.
In 2021-2023, she showed up in the Hulu series Just Homicides in the Structure as supporting person Uma Heller, an amusingly harsh neighbor of the show’s chief characters.
Movies
♦ 2023 – A Good Person
♦ 2023 – You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah
♦ 2022 – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
♦ 2020 – Shiva Baby
♦ 2019 – The Social Ones
♦ 2015 – Decay
♦ 2014 – Birdman
♦ 2014 – 5 Flights Up
♦ 2011 – The Sitter
♦ 2010 – The Extra Man
♦ 2009 – How to Seduce Difficult Women
♦ 2008 – The Entrepreneurs
♦ 2006 – Queer Duck: The Movie
♦ 2005 – Robots
♦ 2004 – Garden State
♦ 2004 – A Dirty Shame
♦ 2003 – Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
♦ 2001 – Kissing Jessica Stein
TV Shows
♦ 2024 – Night Court
♦ 2023 – Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies
♦ 2022 – Search Party
♦ 2022 – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
♦ 2021–present – Only Murders in the Building
♦ 2021 – The Bite
♦ 2019–2020 – The Politician
♦ 2019 – The Other Two
♦ 2017–2020 – At Home with Amy Sedaris
♦ 2017 – Feud: Bette and Joan
♦ 2016 – American Dad!
♦ 2016 – Elementary