The honours just keep piling up for Emmy-winner (and let’s not forget Emmy host) Jane Lynch, who became a permanent part of a Tinseltown institution on Wednesday when she received her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

During a ceremony held in front of the historic TCL Chinese Theatre, the Glee star became the 2,505th celebrity to receive a star on the Walk of Fame, with Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy and director Christopher Guest (Best in Show) on hand to sing her praises.

After the ceremony, the 53-year-old actress admitted becoming part of this Hollywood tradition was emotional, and underlined just how far her career has soared within the past few years. “This is really great,” she told ET Canada. “This moves me…Chris [Guest] and Ryan [Murphy] showed up and spoke on my behalf and that was really moving. You know, I met them both in 1999, which is…I can’t do math, but that’s more than 10 years ago [and] so much has happened in that time. I kind of even knew…that they would be very important in my life if I could keep them with me and around me, and I have. So this is a culmination of a dream, a preposterous dream come true.”

With the cast of Glee having just wrapped the upcoming tribute to the late Cory Monteith, Lynch admitted that “it’s been a really tough week, but it’s also been a really beautiful week. I don’t think a cast and crew have ever felt so familial as we do.”

Losing Monteith, she admits, has been difficult for everyone on the show. “Finn was not only the quarterback of the football team, he was the quarterback of the glee club, and so was Cory Monteith. He was the guy…you know, even I looked up to. He was our rock.”

After the ceremony, Lynch tweeted her followers a photo of her star: