Storm Reid received large on the 2023 Primetime Artistic Arts Emmy Awards on Saturday, January 6, taking house the prize for Excellent Visitor Actress in a Drama Sequence.
“I genuinely cannot articulate how i’m feeling … more words and more pictures tomorrow. THANK YOU,” Reid, 20, wrote through Instagram.
She later posted movies from her automotive trip after the ceremony. “This is a testament to stay the course,” Reid stated whereas holding her Emmy. “Don’t take no for an answer. Do what you want to do. Don’t care what nobody says. Stay in your own lane. Create your own lane. Do what makes you happy.”
This marks Reid’s first Emmy win and nomination.
Six nominees competed within the class, although simply two exhibits have been represented. Hiam Abbass, Cherry Jones and Harriet Walter have been nominated for his or her visitor roles on Succession, whereas Melanie Lynskey, Anna Torv and Reid have been acknowledged for his or her work on The Final of Us. Each dramas air on HBO, with Succession ending its four-season run in Could 2023 and The Final of Us debuting in January 2023.
Among the actresses within the class have been up for multiple Emmy this yr. Lynskey, 46, was additionally nominated for Lead Actress in a Drama Sequence for Yellowjackets, and Walter, 73, earned a nod for Visitor Actress in a Comedy Sequence for Ted Lasso.
Lynskey beforehand scored her first Emmy nomination in 2022, and regardless of the awards season buzz surrounding her, she selected to sleep by way of the announcement on the time.
“I was so nervous. I honestly couldn’t face it. So [husband] Jason [Ritter] got up with our daughter and I did sleep through it,” she advised Deadline in July 2022. “I just couldn’t be awake. I decided it would be nice to either wake up [because] I was getting a lot of [phone messages] or just slowly wake up. … So I woke up [because] I was getting a lot of [phone messages]. So that was a nice way to wake up.”
Whereas Lynskey has been within the business for the reason that early ‘90s, she joked about her heightened fame as of late. “Ten years ago I got nominated for a Gotham award as a breakthrough performer. And even then a decade ago, people were like, ‘She’s been round without end!’” she stated. “I think now at this point it’s extra funny, but it does feel different. I’ve felt very fortunate to be a working actor and to have been able to make my living and do work that I feel really proud of. To have this level of recognition is very, very new for me. It feels very nice.”
The seventy fifth annual Primetime Emmy Awards have been initially anticipated to air in September 2023, however the ceremony was postponed because of the writers’ and actors’ strikes, which ultimately led to September and November, respectively. The Emmy nominations have been introduced in July 2023, lower than 48 hours earlier than SAG-AFTRA started its work stoppage.