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In an emotionally charged acceptance speech at last night’s Golden Globes for her role in The White Lotus, Jennifer Coolidge left the audience wiping away tears after paying tribute to those who had given her all the “little jobs” that kept her his career. going.
The 61-year-old actress, who was born in Massachusetts but now lives in New Orleans, picked up her second major award, following a 2022 Emmy for the same role, for Best Supporting Actress, in a career spanning four decades.
During his moment on stage, he told the audience that the ‘dreams and expectations’ he had in his youth had ‘disappeared for life’ and thanked those who kept his career alive with ‘small jobs for 20 years’.
The star, who has appeared in supporting roles in everything from Seinfeld to Friends, as well as roles in teen movies Legally Blonde and American Pie in the early 2000s, has been candid about her battles with infertility, depression and increasing weight during lockdown.
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A delighted Jennifer Coolidge, 61, scooped up the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for The White Lotus in Los Angeles on Tuesday. She thanked all those who had given her the “little jobs” along the way that had kept her career going.
Certainly reaching for a handkerchief was the creator of The White Lotus. Mike White, who cast her in the role of Tanya McQuoid in the series that has been described as a “social satire that follows the exploits of various employees and guests” at a hotel in Sicily over the course of a week.
White said the actress had inspired the entire series, telling The New York Times: ‘I just wanted to write something for her and I adore her.’
Coolidge, who is officially single but is believed to be dating long-term love Tom Mahoney, said the success of her most recent role had “changed my life in a million different ways,” joking that she was suddenly getting lots of party invitations from her. neighbors
She also thanked pop star Ariana Grande, who featured her in the video for her 2019 hit Thank U, Next, saying the appearance had ‘It changed a lot for me, like overnight.’
She joked: “I blame her, and I (don’t know) maybe people are like ‘She’s still alive, wait, give her a shout out’.”
Coolidge as the privileged -and selfish- Tanya McQuoid in the HBO Max series The White Lotus
Your the spectacular turn as Tanya McQuoid, a hard-to-love rich woman lost in the grief of losing her mother, in the HBO Max series almost didn’t happen; Coolidge has previously revealed that she almost turned down the role of herself due to depression and weight gain following the pandemic lockdown.
Speaking to The Australian last year, the 61-year-old admitted she was “depressed and overeating” while in quarantine throughout 2020.
She explained: ‘I felt like it was the darkest time and I never thought we’d really come back from that. She was thinking: “Who do I leave my stuff with?”
Coolidge also revealed that she and her assistant were eating four vegan pizzas a day during quarantine, and the weight gain made her self-conscious about filming the show.
Dreams: In her Golden Globes acceptance speech on Tuesday, Coolidge revealed how the dreams she had as a young actress didn’t materialize the way she thought they would. Pictured: Coolidge as a student at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City
While studying theater in the Big Apple, Coolidge waited tables with fellow aspiring actress Sandra Bullock.
Jodi on Seinfeld: At twenty, Coolidge’s career consisted of small roles and cameos
In 2001, the comedic character actress was cast as Stifler’s mother in American Pie.
That same year came another teen hit, Legally Blonde, starring Paulette Bonafonté with Reese Witherspoon.
And three years later, another similar minor role, playing Fiona Film in A Cinderella Story.
The One With Ross’ Tan: Coolidge played Amanda Buffamonteezi in a single episode of Friends in 2002, and also took on a role in the Friends spin-off Joey.
She told The Guardian: “I had been gorging and self-destructing at home for months, eating pizza all day. There was no way I wanted to be in a movie unless I was shot from the neck up. I’m a bit vain, so there was no way,” she said.
Referencing her early ‘dreams’ of stardom as a young actress in her acceptance speech, Coolidge added that she thought last night’s success might never come as she got older.
Born in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, in 1961, the aspiring actress pinned her hopes on becoming a huge Hollywood star early on, enrolling in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City as a teenager. While in the Big Apple, she worked as a waitress alongside another rising star, Sandra Bullock.
In 2013’s Austenland, it would be nearly another decade before Coolidge hit the big time in his seventh decade, after being cast in The White Lotus.
After her dreams of being a dramatic actress were derailed, she turned to comedy and joined the Groundlings improv troupe.
Modest success eventually came, but not in the way Coolidge had once hoped; A cameo as Jodi on Seinfeld paved the way for bigger comedic character roles, with the actress cast as Stifler’s mother on American Pie making her a familiar face to teens everywhere.
Similar roles followed in Legally Blonde, 2001, and she headed to Central Perk in 2002. Coolidge played Amanda Buffamonteezi in The One With Ross’ Tan in 2002, and also landed a role in the Friends spin-off, Joey.
The actor appeared in both the first and second series of The White Lotus.
The show has been described as a “social satire following the exploits of various employees and guests” at a hotel over the course of a week.
Sicilian drama: Coolidge won an Emmy for her role as Tanya, and now she adds a Golden Globe to her collection
The star, who is now set to cast roles following her Golden Globes success, has spoken honestly about her fertility; describing herself as ‘sterile’ in an interview with Buzzfeed. She told the publication: ‘I don’t have children. I was sterile.
When it comes to romance, she remains officially single, though she is believed to have been in a long-term relationship with Tom Mahoney.
Previous flirtations, though never confirmed, include dating Chris Kattan: he referred to her in his memoir Baby, Don’t Hurt Me, writing that she was a “tall, messy, sexy, tough and charmingly rude Bostonian bombshell” .
However, it’s The White Lotus’ two series that have propelled her to a new level of fame, with a Golden Globe to add to her Emmy.
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