The Emmy acting record holder: Cloris Leachman with eight.
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“You know who else hasn’t won an Emmy?”.
You can thank Julia Louis-Dreyfus for all the laughs. “I get to make my dreams come true”.
Tom Hiddleson, who starred in The Night Manager, presented the award for outstanding directing in a limited series or movie to the show’s director Susanne Bier.
Malek, 35, took home his first career Emmy for best dramatic actor for his role as socially awkward computer hacker Elliot Alderson, who goes to work for an anarchist in the U.S. series “Mr. Robot”.
“I would not be unhappy were I the last cis-gender male to play a female transgender person on television”, he said.
Martin allowed that there might be a possibility for another series somewhere down the line, noting, “I do have thousands of pages of fake history of everything that led up to ‘Game of Thrones.’ There’s a lot of material there and I’m still writing more. Because there’s a little bit of Elliot in all of us, isn’t there?” This means she took home yet another Emmy Award for her role as producer on the show.
On the red carpet, Judith Light was being fully transparent when she told bleacher fans how hard it is to walk a red carpet in heels. Lastly, Anna Chlumsky has been nominated for supporting actress four times, while Matt Walsh finally broke into the supporting actor race this year.
Before she left the stage, the actress took a moment to dedicate her speech to her father, William Louis-Dreyfus, who, she revealed, died this past Friday.
She previously won three other Emmys, including one for best comedy series for Veep, a show she also produces. She said the comedy, where she plays VP/President Selina Meyer, started out as a political satire, but now feels like “sobering documentary“.
Jeffrey Tambor captured his second consecutive best comedy actor trophy for “Transparent”, in which he plays a transgender character.
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“There is no best actor, all right?” And so, they began reaching out to him on Twitter. It was her third win for playing the formidable dowager. However, it was still an emotional night for the actress. Her speech was such a touching tribute to a man who really made something out of his life.
