Jennifer Coolidge (born August 28, 1963) is an American actress best known for playing "Stifler's mom," the older woman in the film American Pie (1999), Hilary Duff's stepmother in A Cinderella Story (2004), Paulette, the manicurist in Legally Blonde (2001) and its sequel, the voice of Aunt Fanny in the animated feature Robots.