{"id":616454,"date":"2026-09-15T04:26:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T04:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/616454\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T04:26:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T04:26:31","slug":"noah-wyle-of-the-pitt-wins-emmy-for-best-actor-in-a-drama-his-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/616454\/","title":{"rendered":"Noah Wyle of ‘The Pitt’ wins Emmy for best actor in a drama, his second"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For the second year in a row, Noah Wyle<\/a> is riding off into the sunset with an Emmy for lead actor in a drama series for HBO Max\u2019s \u201cThe Pitt.\u201d<\/p>\n

The actor, who plays chief attending physician Dr. Michael \u201cRobby\u201d Robinavitch in the medical drama, won the award at Monday\u2019s Primetime Emmy Awards, a repeat effort after the medical drama\u2019s standout freshman season. Season 2 of the show, which premiered in January, takes place on the Fourth of July as the staff of the Pitt prepares for Dr. Robby to leave on a three-month sabbatical, which involves a road trip on his motorcycle, but his impending departure is met with concern over his mental well-being.<\/p>\n

Wyle, who said in his acceptance speech that he\u2019ll be back to work early in the morning, recalled growing up in L.A. and being a \u201cHollywood kid.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI was raised on a television and movie theaters were my place of worship,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is all I\u2019ve ever wanted to do and this is the only club I\u2019ve ever wanted to join. Thank you for accepting me.\u201d <\/p>\n

Wyle was considered the front-runner in the category by awards prognosticators, including The Times\u2019 Glenn Whipp<\/a>. His competition included Sterling K. Brown (\u201cParadise\u201d), Gary Oldman (\u201cSlow Horses\u201d), Mark Ruffalo (\u201cTask\u201d) and Rufus Sewell (\u201cThe Diplomat\u201d).<\/p>\n

The show was an immediate hit for HBO Max when it premiered in 2025 and was promptly renewed for a second season. It follows each hour of a 12-hour shift at an emergency room in Pittsburgh and features an ensemble cast with Wyle\u2019s Dr. Robby as the heart of the show. In addition to being the star, he is also an executive producer, director and writer on the series. The show also won for drama series at this year\u2019s Emmy Awards. <\/p>\n

Production on Season 3 of \u201cThe Pitt\u201d began this summer and it is slated to premiere in January 2027. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the second year in a row, Noah Wyle is riding off into the sunset with an Emmy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2701,742,146,278912,6729,85,46,93030,16091,69912,278913,109889,178857,20780,145867,3263,137907,278911],"class_list":["post-616454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-award","tag-drama","tag-entertainment","tag-good-actor","tag-hbo-max","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-january","tag-medical-drama","tag-noah-wyle","tag-physician-dr-michael","tag-pitt","tag-robby","tag-season","tag-second-year","tag-show","tag-sterling-k-brown","tag-win-emmy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}