Jennifer Coolidge Breaks Down In Emotional SAG Awards Acceptance Speech

Jennifer Coolidge at the 29th Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Century City, California, on Sunday.
Jennifer Coolidge on the twenty ninth Display screen Actors Guild Awards on the Fairmont Century Plaza in Century Metropolis, California, on Sunday.
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Jennifer Coolidge simply scored a SAG award — and Twitter couldn’t be happier for the performing queen.

After starring in HBO’s hit drama “The White Lotus,” the 61-year-old has skilled fairly the profession resurgence previously 12 months, together with touchdown her first Golden Globe and her first Emmy for her function because the lovably loony Tanya within the sequence.

At Sunday’s twenty ninth Annual Display screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles, Coolidge nabbed one more win, taking house the award for Excellent Efficiency by a Feminine Actor in a Drama Collection for her efficiency within the second season of the beloved sequence.

“It’s been a really particular 12 months and you already know, overwhelming,” Coolidge mentioned whereas delivering her acceptance speech. “And White Lotus and Mike White writing me this nice half that went on for 2 seasons, and simply HBO giving me the thumbs as much as let me do it.”

“I simply need to say,” she continued whereas tearing up. “I would like you all to know that I’m simply so grateful. So grateful, as a result of this may very well be it.”

In a touching nod to the present’s creator, Mike White, Coolidge thanked him for altering her mindset within the trade.

Chatting with him immediately within the crowd, she added, “You may give cash to pals and do good issues for them, and other people love cash, and I do — each time I can. When your pals are broke, you may give cash and stuff, however the perfect present you may give somebody is to alter somebody’s perspective for the higher, and consider life another way, and that’s what Mike White did for me.”

Elsewhere in her speech, Coolidge thanked her mother and father for introducing her to the performing world from a younger age, earlier than giving a steamy due to her date and longtime pal, fellow actor Tim Bagley.

“My great date — Tim Bagley is my date tonight. He’s my finest bud for like, 20 years. Thanks, you’re a beautiful date tonight. I can’t wait until we get house,” Coolidge quipped as the group roared in laughter.

Coolidge’s latest glow-up has been the true definition of a feel-good comeback — and Twitter customers didn’t take lengthy to have a good time the fan-favorite’s epic win.

Try an entire record of this 12 months’s SAG Award winners right here.

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