It’s official: Jennifer Coolidge is now a Screen Actors Guild Award winner. On Sunday, “The White Lotus” star took home the prize for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series for her performance in the second season of the hit HBO series. “It’s been a very special year and you know, overwhelming,” Coolidge said while delivering another memorable speech following wins at the 2022 Emmys and 2023 Golden Globes. “And ‘White Lotus’ and Mike White writing me this great part that went on for two seasons, and just HBO giving me the thumbs up to let me to it.” “I just want to say,” she continued before getting emotional. “I want you all to know that I’m just so grateful.
So grateful, because this could be it.” Next up, Coolidge thanked the show’s creator, Mike White, for changing her perspective, telling the crowd and White directly, “Mike White — you can give money to friends and do nice things for them, and people love money, and I do — whenever I can.
When your friends are broke, you can give money and stuff, but the best gift you can give someone is to change someone’s perspective for the better, and view life in a different way, and that’s what Mike White did for me.” In addition to thanking White, Coolidge also went on to thank her parents for exposing her to the art of acting from a young age. “What I really want to say is, I have these amazing parents.
And they had this incredible gift, it was impossible for them to lie. They just couldn’t do it — never. Never. They just never lied,” she said before revealing the one exception. “My father, one day, the school principal came to my first grade class and said that I needed to be called to the office.
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