Kathy Najimy parents Samia ("née" Massery) and Fred Najimy, a postal worker. She was raised Maronite Catholic and attended Crawford High School. Najimy's film career began in the early 1990s, with a number of off-beat minor roles, but her first major role was in the 1992 comedy "Sister Act", in the role of Sister Mary Patrick. She reprised this role in 1993 in "Sister Act 2". She also starred in "Hocus Pocus" with Bette Midler and Sarah Jessica Parker as the Sanderson sisters. She appeared with Ellen Degeneres in three episodes of her sitcom "Ellen", playing a different character each time (including
Sarah Jessica Parker wing after he graduates and moves to New York. "Vulture", on one of its recaps of "Glee", remarked: "[C]haracters who are big-eyed but a little broken inside and desperately in love with New York are what Sarah Jessica Parker does best. I don’t think her stint on "Glee" will revolutionize the show or her career or anything, but she’s absolutely an asset, and I’m glad she’s onboard". In 2013, Parker provided her voice for one of the characters of the animated film "Escape from Planet Earth", and played Gloria Steinem in deleted scenes of the biographical drama "Lovelace". In 2015,