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Laurel Coppock

Laurel Coppock was born August 22, 1970. Daughter to Broadway dancer and actress in Susan Coppock she has two talented sisters. Selena is both a standup comedian and published author while her other sister is both an art appraiser and dealer. Their mother published a memoir, where she talks about growing up in an abusive household, her mother was a dancer on Broadway, had minimal maternal instincts and had a maximum ability of humiliating and belittling the younger daughter. The entire family is considered to be quite creative. Other than this information about her family, birthplace, where she grew up, has been relatively nonexistent.

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Married to the talented producer, actor, and writer Bobby Mort, hailing from Chicago and completed his education in improv and sketch comedy in Chicago. The couple dated for multiple years before deciding to tie the knot. Even now, any free time is spent with each other, free time is family time.

Bobby Mort is the winner of the Primetime Emmy in 2013 it was shared with the rest of his cast for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series for his series, The Colbert Report and the Winner of the 2014 WGA Award for Comedy/Variety (Including Talk) – Series again for The Colbert Report, sharing the award once again with his cast. He is famous for the movies and shows The Colbert Report (2005), Circle of Pain (2010) and Loudermilk(2017) but has worked on many other TV shows and movies as well as acting in them. Bobby is also a comedian, trained as an improve and sketch comedian in Chicago, and a writer who is known to be the founder of the sketch comedy trio called Maximum Party Zone. The two have had a child since then but have refused to reveal any information about him; it is only known that she was pregnant in 2014 so we can only assume the child was born around this time. The couple does not attend red carpet events or speak openly about their relationship choosing to keep what happens between them to themselves.

As far as education goes, Laurel attended Circle in the Square theater school for the development of her acting skills and is a graduate of Colby College in Maine. Later she studied and performed in Chicago’s Second City and Improv Olympic to polish her skills. Laurel performed improv and sketch comedy for five years in Chicago with a long list including groups such as People of Earth and The Armando Show she was also a cast member of the famous comedy Boom Chicago in Amsterdam from 2005 - 2006

After her graduation with her pursuance of entertainment, Laurel was given the opportunity to try her talent at her first movie. In 2008, Laurel became part of the movie Food Chain by Erik Moe. It was around this time that she played small roles in other movies as well, such as Crazy, Stupid, Love along with Ryan Gosling and Steve Carell. From here on out it was more small jobs in the movie biz. Aside from movies, Laurel appeared in several different television series such as Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development, Hot in Clevland and Modern Family.

Laurel Coppock has acted in 21 movies to this day, but she is best known for Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011) Modern Family (2009) The Office (2005 ) and Comedy Jam (2012) she also served as an assistant on Curb Your Enthusiasm (2007)

Her fame truly started as Jan in the Toyota advertisements. She claimed that it was at this time she was ready to quit auditioning for commercials right before auditioning for Toyota. It’s a good thing she didn’t quit because it earned her the name ‘Toyota Jan.’ Jan is a receptionist at Toyota Dealership receptionist more than willing to enthusiastically help and customer with any problem in finding the perfect car. From there she became the beloved persona in the commercial mainstay. She was originally told by Toyota that the commercial was only meant to be something smaller a regional campaign at most but with the success of the add, made her fame grow into a full-blown campaign.


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Net Worth 2021: 1 million
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Last Modified: Jun 27 2020
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