Sarah Snook.Photo:FOX
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The actress, 36, took home the award for outstanding lead actress in a drama series at the 2023Emmy Awardson Monday.
“It’s very easy to act when you’re pregnant because you’ve got hormones raging. It was more that the proximity of her life growing inside me gave me the strength to do this and this performance, and I love you so much,” Snook added. “And it’s all for you from here on out. Thank you.”
Among this year’s nominees wereBella RamseyfromThe Last of Us,The Handmaid’s Tale’sElisabeth Moss,The DiplomatstarKeri Russell,Yellowjackets’Melanie LynskeyandSharon HorganfromBad Sisters.
Sarah Snook.Graeme Hunter/HBO
Snook returned as Siobhan “Shiv” Roy for the final season ofSuccession, which sawthe death of Logan Roy(Brian Cox) leaving the fate of the Roy family and the ownership of Waystar Royco in limbo. The series concluded with Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen) becoming the company’s new CEO.
She concluded, “I just watched the final episode of the final season of something that has changed my life. And now, my life has changed again. Thank you for all the love and support.”
Successiondominatedthis year’s Emmy nominationswith a whopping 27 nods.
Bella Ramsey on “The Last of Us”.Liane Hentscher/HBO
Liane Hentscher/HBO
Also nominated this year was Ramsey, 19, who stars as Ellie Williams, a teenager who is immune to the fungus that has turned the world into a post-apocalyptic landscape filled with “infected” onThe Last of Us. Joel Miller (Pedro Pascal) is a smuggler on a journey to deliver Ellie to a rebel group in the hope that her immunity can save civilization.
Ramsey — who identifies as non-binary anduses they/them pronouns— ended up getting so into character that it became hard to distinguish where Ellie stopped and their real self started.
“People always ask, at the end of a shoot day, how I get back into being Bella,” they toldThe New York Times. “But I didn’t know how to do that with Ellie because we were so intertwined.”
The Last of Usalso scored a nod for outstanding drama series while Pascal was among this year’s nominees for outstanding lead actor in a drama series.
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The actress told PEOPLE at the series' season 5 finale FYC event in Los Angeles in November 2022 that she thinks “it’s “horrifying” how, in the years since the show’s premiere in 2017, that its story has onlybecome more relevant.
“It’s awful. It’s way more than troubling,” she added.
While Moss callsThe Handmaid’s Tale"the most fulfilling, creative experience of my life,” the show’s plot has started to feeltoo close to homefor some — particularly in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision tooverturnRoe v. Wadein June 2022.
The Handmaid’s Talehas received 76 nominations. A premiere date for theshow’s final seasonhas not been announced.
Keri Russell on “The Diplomat”.Courtesy of Netflix
Courtesy of Netflix
In the first season ofThe Diplomat, Russell starred as Kate Wyler, the new U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom who was forced to navigated the demands of both her job and marriage.
“What I loved is the constant discomfort and sweatiness and nervousness and just overall unpolished quality of her — matched with the bossiness to everyone, which I think is really funny,” Russell toldTudumof taking on the role of Kate.
However, she did wish that Kate wasn’t so talkative, saying, “And the thing I don’t like is how much she has to say. I would love to not ever have to speak. I could just mime my scenes.”
Melanie Lynskey on “Yellowjackets”.Paul Sarkis/SHOWTIME
The 46-year-old actress previously told PEOPLE that shecan’t relate much to her character— particularly in one area.
“We have opposite parenting styles,” the New Zealand native, shared at the Showtime series' season 2 premiere.
She added of the differences between herself and her character Shauna, “I feel so fortunate to havemy daughter, and I love her. It’s like the joy of my life. Every day, I’m like, ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you for this child.’ I want to spend every minute with her.”
Yellowjacketsalso received an outstanding drama series nomination at this year’s Emmys.
In the first season ofBad Sisters, Horgan played eldest siblings Eva, who along with her sisters, was navigating the trauma of losing their parents.
She added, “But her joy is her sisters, and keeping that family table busy. That’s why she’s put up with [J.P.’s] malevolent presence for so many years, because she doesn’t want to fracture the family. She never stopped putting herself out there. I think that as an older woman, it is a really beautiful message.”
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