Inside Jennifer Coolidge’s ‘Life-Changing’ Success and Overdue Recognition From ‘The White Lotus’: It’s ‘Made Things Different’

The White Lotus. Last night, Coolidge was gifted the prize for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series for her role in the hit HBO show’s second season.When accepting the award, Coolidge expressed her gratitude and acknowledged that this could be a pivotal moment in her career. “I just want to say,” she continued before becoming emotional.

Backstage at the Screen Actors Guild Awards after The White Lotus won the top prize for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, Jennifer Coolidge spoke with ET’s Denny Directo about season 3 of the HBO series.

Screen Actors Guild Awards after won the top prize for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, Jennifer Coolidge spoke with ET's Denny Directo about season 3 of the HBO series. While Coolidge's character, Tanya McQuoid-Hunt, was killed off at the end of season 2, fans are still hoping that she'll somehow return in the third installment of creator Mike White's ongoing social satire about various guests and employees at a luxury hotel. However, when her co-star, Jon Gries, suggested that «Jennifer play Jennifer's sister,» Coolidge quickly shut it down. «I don't think Mike's going to allow that,» she said. But Coolidge seemed more open to the idea that Pamela Anderson joins as Tanya's sister.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Jean Smart is “doing well” following a recent heart procedure. The “Hacks” star announced on Feb. 23 that she had undergone an unspecified procedure. Production on Season 3 of the HBO Max series has paused while she is on the mend. “She’s doing well,” co-star Hannah Einbinder told Variety on the red carpet at the SAG Awards. “She’s recovering. We just visited her.” Co-star Poppy Liu added, “She requested a lot of photos from all of us. We will be FaceTiming with her.”

Jennifer Coolidge is a winner!

Stunning at the SAGs! Jennifer Coolidge turned heads at the 2023 Screen Actors Guild Awards in a formfitting black gown with a matching headband.

Jennifer Coolidge almost joined the Marvel Universe.

could have looked a little different in season 2. Executive producer David Bernad revealed Dahmer star Evan Peters was originally set to play the character of Ethan Spiller, a role that eventually went to 's Will Sharpe. «That part was the last part we cast in the season, and originally it was supposed to be Evan Peters, but for whatever reason — scheduling or timing — it didn’t work out,” Bernad revealed recently at the Berlinale Series Market in Germany, according to Deadline.In the sophomore season of HBO's Emmy-winning series, tech entrepreneur and workaholic Ethan (Spiller) goes on a couples' vacation with his wife, Harper (Aubrey Plaza); and his college friend, Cameron (Theo James), and his wife, Daphne (Meghann Fahy).Even though Peters' casting didn't work out on , Bernad shared that a late-night online search seeking fresh faces led him to Sharpe.“We were really trying to figure how to cast that part so it didn’t feel like familiar casting,” he explained.

, creator Mike White's Emmy-winning social satire, is officially returning with season 3. Like the first two, the new installment will take place at another one of the luxury hotel's exotic locations, where a new group of guests and employees will find their lives clashing in unexpected ways. Although HBO has not officially revealed any new or returning cast members, including Jennifer Coolidge, or where the new episodes will take place, White has shared some of his ideas while members of the sprawling ensemble have weighed in with ET about whether they would return. As anticipation builds for another installment, here's everything we know about the cast and the location of season 3. The biggest question is whether or not Coolidge will return as Tanya McQuiod, the grief-stricken guest who found solace in Greg Hunt (Jon Gries) in season 1 before the two's romance started to fall apart in season 2.

The White Lotus is almost certainly checking into an Asian hotel for its third season — and it’s been revealed Netflix’s Dahmer star Evan Peters nearly starred in the second run.

Jennifer Coolidge is having quite a year.

is back for a third season, with the series being revived with its original cast on Starz. That includes Jane Lynch as Constance Carmell, a former actress and one of the titular catering company's many eccentric employees run by Ron Donald (Ken Marino). Ahead of the premiere on Feb.

Marta Balaga Total spend on content will “flatten and slightly decline” this year. This tendency might continue for “at least” the next couple of years, according to Ampere Analysis’ Guy Bisson, a speaker at Monday’s opening panel of the Berlinale Series Market, which runs through Feb. 22. “We are entering a phase of market maturity in streaming: Growth is difficult to come by. We see it across the globe, most drastically in the U.S.,” he observed.  That said, there is one “lockdown trend” that happened to stick around: Unscripted commissioning rose to match scripted, with streaming commissioning currently focusing ever more at documentary, entertainment and reality. 

Vulture on Friday about the cancellation of his sitcom “Reboot,” Knoxville said, “Mike White is a very close friend of mine. He and I had been in Tokyo together.

Jennifer Lopez twinned with her Shotgun Wedding co-star Jennifer Coolidge earlier this week.

has enjoyed huge success, with its cast (as well as the runways) during Fashion Week. Tanya McQuoid, played by , is undoubtedly one of the show’s most popular characters, and it appears that Jennifer Lopez Affleck might be as much of a fan as the rest of us.Spotted out on a date night with her husband this week, wore an outfit that was very reminiscent of McQuoid from The White Lotus—in fact, it was one of the exact same dresses seen on the show. The look, which was head-to-toe Dolce & Gabbana, comprised a tonal pink long-sleeve midi dress worn with a gold buckle belt, a red and gold square clutch bag and silver platform sandals.As writer Evan Ross Katz pointed out on Twitter, the sartorial crossover between Jennifer Lopez and Jennifer Coolidge’s character is undeniable.

We Have a Ghost.” “We have this amazing moment where there’s a CGI thing that shoots out of my face, and it’s a hand and it strangles her,” Harbour, 47, said of the spooky revelation during an appearance on “Late Night With Seth Meyers.” “So I did it with my hand [during filming] and she was, like, really pissed,” the “Stranger Things” star recalled. “She stopped the take and was like, ‘David! You’ve gotta really strangle me! You gotta strangle me!'”Harbour said he simply could not do it.  “I was, like, ‘I’m not gonna murder America’s sweetheart!'” He explained.

Jennifer Coolidge is a comedy genius.

Jennifer Coolidge is beauty’s biggest It Girl! The actress wowed Us in e.l.f. Cosmetics‘ first-ever Super Bowl commercial.