The Television Academy namedThe Dropout’sAmanda Seyfriedtheir most outstanding leading lady in a limited series or movie at Monday night’s 74th PrimetimeEmmy Awards.
Toni Collette(The Staircase),Julia Garner(Inventing Anna),Lily James(Pam & Tommy),Sarah Paulson(Impeachment: American Crime Story), andMargaret Qualley(Maid) were among this year’s nominees.
Seyfried, 36, accepted the award from presentersChris O’DonnellandShemar Moorebefore calling her first Emmy win “a really nice feeling.”
“Thanks Television Academy, and thanks for recognizing me among these amazing actors,” Seyfried said on stage before thankingThe Dropoutcreator Liz Meriweather, as well as executive producer Michael Showalter.
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“And last but not least, [thank you to] my family,” Seyfried continued, addressing her two young children with husbandThomas Sadoski. “Hi, bubs, you gotta go to bed now, but thanks!”
“Thank you to my family, my mom, my husband, my dad and my kids, and my dog, Finn,” she added. “Thanks so much.”
Amanda Seyfried.Chris Haston/NBC via Getty
Collette, 49, played Kathleen Peterson, whose death in 2001 sparkeda scandalous murder investigation and the imprisonmentof her husbandMichael Peterson.
Garner, 28, portrayed fake heiressAnna Delveyspanned from Soho to Morocco and, eventually, Riker’s Island as she rubbed elbows — and crossed swords — with some of New York City’s most prominent and wealthy denizens.
Seyfried, 36, also embodied a charismatic woman whose dreams led to incarceration as she raised millions of dollars in venture capital on the promise ofa game-changing medical technology that didn’t really exist.
James, 33, acted oppositeSebastian Stan(who also earned a2022 Emmy nomination) as the title couple in Hulu’s dramatization of the real-life whirlwind romance betweenPamela AndersonandTommy Leeas they confronted the theft and distribution of a sex tape.
And Paulson, 47, played infamous political figureLinda Tripp, who secretly recorded conversations with friendMonica Lewinskyabout her late-’90s affair with then-PresidentBill Clinton.Ryan Murphy’s dramatization of the investigation depicted the unraveling of the friendship — and civility in Washington, D.C. — in the lead-up to Clinton’s impeachment.
In 2022,The White Lotustied its fellow HBO seriesSuccessionfor most-nominated television shows were.Successionscored nominations in the drama categories, andTheWhite Lotusnetted numerous nominations for its ensemble cast in the limited series or movie outstanding supporting categories.
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The 74th PrimetimeEmmy Awardsare being broadcast live on NBC from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
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