Raise a Glass to Jennifer Coolidge's Heartfelt 2023 SAG Awards Speech

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Jennifer Coolidge's 2023 Screen Actors Guild Awards code deserves its ain prize. 

The White Lotus star sparked a full batch of laughs during her heartfelt code astatine the 29th yearly ceremonial Feb. 26 arsenic she took location the grant for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor successful a Drama Series. (See the implicit winners database here.)

For the award, Jennifer was up against The Crown's Elizabeth Debicki, Ozark's Julia Garner and Laura Linney and Euphoria's Zendaya. The triumph marked Jennifer's archetypal Actor trophy, and the accomplishment near her speechless.

"I privation you each to cognize that I americium conscionable truthful grateful, truthful grateful," a tearful Jennifer told the assemblage astatine the Fairmont Century Plaza successful Century City, Calif., earlier dedicating a connection to White Lotus creator Mike White. "You know, you tin springiness wealth to friends and bash bully things for them—and radical emotion money—and I bash immoderate I tin erstwhile your friends are broke. The champion acquisition you tin springiness idiosyncratic is to alteration someone's position for the amended and presumption beingness successful a antithetic way. And that's what Mike White did for me."

She besides thanked her "amazing parents" and the "incredible gift" they had—their inability to lie. And arsenic she explained, that trait ties into how she discovered her emotion of acting.

"One day, the schoolhouse main came to my archetypal people people and said that I needed to beryllium called to the office, and I went to the office," the American Pie actress recalled. "She said 'you know, your father's here.' And my begetter was sitting determination and helium goes, 'Yeah, Jenny, we person to go.' And the main said, 'Jennifer, get well.' And I didn't cognize what that meant."

After Jennifer and her dada got successful the car, helium told her, "I'm never going to archer a prevarication again. But we're going determination truly cool." Their destination? A Charlie Chaplin movie festival.

"He got maine retired of my archetypal people people to bash it," she continued. "And I curse to god, that seeing Charlie Chaplin for the archetypal time, and having that experience, it's my emotion of film. It's my emotion of actors. All that came from my archetypal grade."

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And this isn't the archetypal clip Jennifer has stolen the amusement with her iconic speeches. At the 2023 Golden Globes, the American Pie histrion accepted her trophy, but then quickly enactment it down, adding, "I don't enactment out! I can't clasp it that long."

After going connected to convey Ryan Murphy for supporting her career, she past turned to White Lotus boss.

"I conscionable privation you each to cognize that I had specified large dreams and expectations arsenic a younger idiosyncratic but what happened is they get benignant of fizzled by life," she said, "and I thought I was going to beryllium Queen of Monaco adjacent though idiosyncratic other did it."

While thanking Mike for giving her a "new beginning," Jennifer noted however helium has impacted her life, adjacent though her quality Tanya McQuoid's destiny has been sealed.

"Even if this is the end, because you did termination maine off, you changed my beingness successful a cardinal antithetic ways," she continued. "My neighbors are speaking to me—things similar that!"

Keep scrolling to spot each prima instrumentality connected the 2023 SAG Awards.

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Zendaya

In Valentino with Bvlgari jewelry 

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Hannah Einbinder

In Staud with De Beers jewelry

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Jennifer Coolidge

In Saint Laurent

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Angela Bassett

In Giambattista Valli Couture with De Beers jewelry

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Paul Mescal

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Amy Poehler

In Roland Mouret

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Sarah Burns

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Taron Egerton

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Cate Blanchett

In Armani Privé

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Seth Rogen & Lauren Miller

Seth successful Fendi; Lauren in Emilia Wickstead

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Jeremy Allen White

In Louis Vuitton with Vacheron Constantin jewelry 

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Colin Farrell

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Keeley Karsten

In Tarik Ediz 

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Kerry Condon

In Louis Vuitton

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Michelle Yeoh

In Schiaparelli Couture with Moussaieff jewelry 

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Claire Foy

In Prada

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Christina Applegate & Sadie Grace LeNoble

Christina successful Christian Siriano 

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Eugene Levy

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Aubrey Plaza

In Michael Kors

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Jackie & Adam Sandler

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Ana de Armas

In Louis Vuitton

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Rooney Mara

In Alexander McQueen

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Jason Bateman & Amanda Anka

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Brendan Fraser

In ZEGNA

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Jessie Buckley

In Christian Dior Couture with Fernando Jorge jewelry 

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Jeff Bridges & Susan Geston

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Este Haim

In Louis Vuitton

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Sarah Polley

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Michelle Williams

In Christian Dior with Tiffany & Co. jewelry

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Sheila Atim

In Christopher John Rogers

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