Here Are the 8 First-Time Acting Winners From the Emmys
Jodie Foster added to her awards collection while the stars of “Shogun” and “Baby Reindeer” helped propel their shows to big nights.
The actress Jodie Foster wears a blue, sleeveless dress and holds an Emmy award in her right hand while pointing with her left hand.
Jodie Foster’s Emmy win for “True Detective: Night Country” comes decades after her Academy Awards for “The Accused” and “The Silence of the Lambs.”
Several familiar faces gave acceptance speeches at the Emmy Awards on Sunday night, with Jon Stewart back after a lengthy hiatus from “The Daily Show” and the restaurateurs played by Jeremy Allen White and Ebon Moss-Bachrach cooking yet again for “The Bear.”
But much of the night’s excitement came from seeing newcomers take the stage. Here’s what to know about the eight acting winners who received their first Emmys.
Best actress in a limited series or TV movie
Jodie Foster, ‘True Detective’
Foster is already a two-time Oscar winner — for her performances in “The Silence of the Lambs” and “The Accused” — but she won her first Emmy for her role as a police chief in “True Detective: Night Country.”
Before taking the lead role, Foster hadn’t done substantive television work since her breakthrough role in the 1976 film “Taxi Driver,” when she was barely a teenager.
Her two previous Emmy nominations were for directing an episode in the first season of “Orange Is the New Black” and for a producing role in the 1999 television movie “The Baby Dance.”
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