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Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, <\/p>\nWho is Owen Cooper, the 15-year-old Brit who just made Emmys history?published at 05:56 BST<\/p>\n
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Moment Owen Cooper becomes youngest ever male Emmy winner<\/p>\n
With his performance in Netflix’s hard-hitting drama Adolescence, Owen Cooper, 15, has become the youngest ever male Emmy winner.<\/p>\n
The Warrington-born actor was only 14 when the four-part British series was filmed.<\/p>\n
Adolescence shows the aftermath of the stabbing of a teenage girl, with a 13-year-old boy from her school arrested for her murder. But what won it sweeping critical acclaim was its exploration of social media-fuelled misogyny among teenage boys.<\/p>\n
And Cooper, who plays the young suspect Jamie, delivers what critics described as an “astonishing” and “truly remarkable performance”.<\/p>\n
In a Netflix interview, casting director Shaheen Baig recalled seeing Owen’s improvised tape and thinking: “He looks great on camera, but also his improv was really smart. It felt very natural.”<\/p>\n
Cooper first became interested in acting at around the age of 10. He attended weekly acting classes for two years in Didsbury, Manchester – though until Adolescence he did not have any TV or film credits to his name.<\/p>\n
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Cooper with his parents, Noreen and Andy<\/p>\n
“I asked my mum and dad if I could start going to drama classes, and I think they were a bit shocked by it because I’ve always wanted to become a footballer,” he said in a Netflix interview.<\/p>\n
Cooper broke the record previously held by Scott Jacoby, who was 16 years old when he won an Emmy in 1973 for That Certain Summer.<\/p>\n