Born: May 31, 1955

Devotees of HBO will have little trouble pinpointing actress Susie Essman; she made one of her most indelible impressions as the brassy, bossy, acid-mouthed Susie Greene, wife of Larry_David's manager Jeff Greene (Jeff_Garlin), on the quirky sitcom Curb_Your_Enthusiasm. Essman grew up in Mount Vernon, NY, as the daughter of two prosperous Jewish parents: an internist father and a college professor mother who taught Russian at nearby Sarah Lawrence College. She began her career as a stand-up comedian and entered films courtesy of the Tom_Hanks/Sally_Field seriocomedy Punchline (1988) (as -- fittingly -- a comedian), but hit her stride with Curb, which debuted in 2002. Essman subsequently participated in director Penn_Jillette's monologue-heavy raunchfest The_Aristocrats (2005) and hosted the Bravo network's competition-themed reality series Better_Half (2007), before voicing a cat in the family-oriented animated comedy Bolt (2008). Nathan Southern, Rovi

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