Jackie Hoffman

Jackie Hoffman is an American actress, singer, and comedian who came out of Chicago's Second City improv troupe, where she spent eight years and won a Joseph Jefferson Award. She became known for solo stage shows built from original songs and monologues, and she won an Obie for David and Amy Sedaris's play The Book of Liz. On Broadway she appeared in Hairspray, winning a Theatre World Award, then in Xanadu, The Addams Family, On the Town, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; she also played Yente in a National Yiddish Theatre staging of Fidler Afn Dakh. Her screen work includes Kissing Jessica Stein (2001), Garden State (2004), A Dirty Shame (2004), and Queer Duck: The Movie (2006). For playing Mamacita in Feud she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy and a Critics' Choice Television Award, and she later had roles in Only Murders in the Building and Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies.