Jennifer Coolidge Rocks Black Pleated Gown With Ruffled Collar on Emmys Red Carpet
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 26: Jennifer Coolidge attends 2023 TIME100 Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 26, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
Everyone's favorite award show attendee Jennifer Coolidge once again killed it on the red carpet.
The Legally Blonde alum stepped out ahead of the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards on Jan. 15, 2024, posing on the red carpet in a black pleated gown—which featured a ruffled collar—with long, mesh sleeves and a floral bronze pattern. Meanwhile, Coolidge's hair was pulled into a high bun with curled pieces framing her face.
Coolidge is nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her work in White Lotus, and is up against several of her co-stars: Meghann Fahy, Sabrina Impacciatore, Aubrey Plaza, and Simona Tabasco. Better Call Saul's Rhea Seehorn, Succession's J. Smith-Cameron, and The Crown's Elizabeth Debicki are also in the running.
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The actress won a similar honor at the 2023 Golden Globe Awards, taking home Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television—not to mention a SAG Award and two Critics' Choice Awards. She left fans in stitches with her acceptance speech, joking about the weight of the statue before thanking—and playfully calling out—creator Mike White for what the series did for her.
"Mike White has given me hope. Even if this is the end, because you killed me off, but you changed my life in a million different ways!" she said at the time. "My neighbors are speaking to me and things like that. I was never invited to a single party on my hill and now everybody's inviting me!"
Things almost didn't turn out that way, though, as the 61-year-old almost turned the part down, "very stupidly," she told Page Six after she won the Globe. Part of that was because of her mental state after the Covid-19 pandemic, leaving her thinking she wasn't "in shape" for the part.
Her success from the series "doesn't feel real at all," she recently told Parade.
"This is an unusual moment for anybody," she further explained. "I had already sort of given up."
We're sure glad to see she came back around!
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