High Spirits!

Jennifer Coolidge’s career renaissance takes a spooky turn in a supernatural comedy

- REBECCA MAHONEY, JUDY EWENS, CAREN CLARK

NETFLIX We Have a Ghost 

NEW Available: Friday 24 February Genre: Comedy 

Jennifer Coolidge is certainly having a moment. Playing wealthy, self-absorbed Tanya McQuoid-Hunt in two seasons of black comedy drama The White Lotus has gained her Golden Globe, Emmy and Critics Choice awards, and suddenly the 61-year-old has become the hottest name in Hollywood.

The recognition is long overdue for Coolidge, who followed up her TV debut in a 1993 episode of Seinfeld with the iconic roles of ‘Stifler’s mom’ in American Pie (1999) and ‘bend-and-snap’ manicurist Paulette in Legally Blonde (2001).

COOLER THAN EVER

But after years of scene-stealing appearances in sitcoms such as Joey (2004-2006) and 2 Broke Girls (2012-2017), and the mockumentary films Best in Show (2001) and