In her 2023 Golden Globe Awards acceptance speech, The White Lotus star Jennifer Coolidge thanked “some of the people in this room … that kept me going for, you know, 20 years with these little jobs.”
Though her career as of late hasn’t been so little, thanks to her award-winning Lotus role and breakouts in The Watcher, preceded by her memorable moments in Legally Blonde, American Pie and various Christopher Guest films, Coolidge has had several of what she called “little jobs … just enough to get me to the next one.”
After scoring a handful of bit parts on television and movies in the 1990s, a 37-year-old Coolidge was credited as “Hottie Cop” in the 1998 SNL spin-off film A Night at the Roxbury.
