| Janeane Garofalo  Born: 28-Sep-1964
Birthplace: Newton, NJ
Gender: Female
Religion: Atheist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Comic
Party Affiliation: Democratic Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Actor, Comedian, Author, Activist Janeane Garofalo grew up the daughter of an oil company executive and an office secretary in Houston, Texas. At the age of nine, her family moved to Madison, New Jersey, which is where they remained until her senior year of high school. Then Exxon suddenly transferred her dad to Texas, so the family uprooted itself again and returned to Houston. Up to that point, Garofalo's life had been fairly typical. But the culture shock in her senior year of high school caused acute depression, and she got fat (5'1", 160 pounds). After graduation, Garofalo headed off to Providence College in Rhode Island, where she decided to try stand-up comedy, which soon inspired the plump 20-year-old to undergo breast reduction surgery. After graduating from Providence with a degree in history, Garofalo pursued her standup career in Boston. She briefly returned to Houston to nurse her mother through cancer; after her death, Garofalo moved to Los Angeles, where she landed simultaneous roles on both The Ben Stiller Show and The Larry Sanders Show.
After a slew of supporting roles im films including 1994's Reality Bites, Garofalo pinned her hopes on playing the wife in Flirting With Disaster. She lost out to Patricia Arquette, reportedly because the producers thought she was too fat. It prompted her to lose weight, after which she landed a couple of starring roles, in The Truth About Cats & Dogs and The MatchMaker. Both films were box office disappointments, and Garofalo subsequently landed back in the supporting actor classification.
In 2004, Garofalo began cohosting a daily talk show, The Majority Report, on the liberal Air America Radio network. She left the network in July 2006, a month after her repeated voicing of support for the Scientology-backed New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project led to her cohost and producer walking out of a broadcast. Father: Carmine Garofalo (Exxon executive)
Mother: Joan (secretary at Conoco-Phillips, d. colon cancer)
Brother: Michael
Boyfriend: Barry (1985-87)
Boyfriend: Ben Stiller (1990)
Husband: Rob Cohen (m. 1991, separated)
Boyfriend: Bob Odenkirk
Boyfriend: Mitch Rouse
Boyfriend: Craig Bierko (1999)
Boyfriend: Pete Caldes
Boyfriend: Greg Behrendt (ex-)
High School: Madison High School, Madison, NJ (transferred)
High School: James E. Taylor High School, Houston, TX (1982)
University: BA History, Providence College, Providence, RI (1986)
Air America
Dean for America
MoveOn.org
Breast Reduction Surgery 1984
Irish Ancestry
Italian Ancestry
Risk Factors: Depression, Smoking, Vegetarian, Alcoholism, Marijuana
TELEVISION
Saturday Night Live 1994
TV Nation Special Correspondent
The Larry Sanders Show Paula
The Ben Stiller Show
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Ratatouille (28-Jun-2007) [VOICE]
Southland Tales (21-May-2006)
The Wild (6-Apr-2006) [VOICE]
Fuck (7-Nov-2005) Herself
Stay (24-Sep-2005)
Duane Hopwood (20-Jan-2005)
Tanner on Tanner (5-Oct-2004) Herself
Jiminy Glick in La La Wood (18-Sep-2004)
Wonderland (8-Sep-2003)
Manhood (23-Jan-2003)
Nobody Knows Anything! (2003)
Big Trouble (2-Apr-2002)
Martin & Orloff (11-Mar-2002)
The Laramie Project (10-Jan-2002)
Wet Hot American Summer (23-Jan-2001)
The Thin Pink Line (7-Oct-2000)
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (24-Jun-2000)
Titan A.E. (13-Jun-2000) [VOICE]
The Independent (12-Mar-2000)
Steal This Movie (4-Mar-2000)
Dogma (12-Nov-1999)
The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (Sep-1999)
Mystery Men (22-Jul-1999)
200 Cigarettes (26-Feb-1999)
The Minus Man (25-Jan-1999)
Can't Stop Dancing (16-Jan-1999)
Clay Pigeons (15-Sep-1998)
Dog Park (14-Sep-1998)
Permanent Midnight (12-Sep-1998)
Thick as Thieves (28-Jan-1998)
Denis Leary: Lock 'N Load (15-Nov-1997) Herself
The MatchMaker (3-Oct-1997)
Cop Land (15-Aug-1997)
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (25-Apr-1997)
Touch (14-Feb-1997)
Larger Than Life (26-Jul-1996)
The Cable Guy (14-Jun-1996)
The Truth About Cats & Dogs (26-Apr-1996)
Sweethearts (1996)
Now and Then (20-Oct-1995)
Coldblooded (15-Sep-1995)
Bye Bye, Love (17-Mar-1995)
Reality Bites (18-Feb-1994)
Late for Dinner (20-Sep-1991)
Author of books:
Feel This Book: An Essential Guide to Self-Empowerment, Spiritual Supremacy, and Sexual Satisfaction (2000, self-help, with Ben Stiller)
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