{"id":616992,"date":"2026-09-15T18:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T18:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/616992\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T18:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T18:04:17","slug":"emmy-awards-welsh-actor-matthew-rhys-makes-history-with-double-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/616992\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmy Awards: Welsh actor Matthew Rhys makes history with double win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elsewhere, Jean Smart won best comedy actress for her role in the fifth and final series of Hacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is the fifth Emmy she has won for the Hollywood satire. &#8220;What a ride this has been,&#8221; Smart reflected, and joked that the audience only gave her a standing ovation &#8220;because I&#8217;m old&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was Smart&#8217;s eighth Emmy win in total, and The Diplomat&#8217;s Allison Janney also picked up the eighth Emmy of her career, scoring best supporting actress in a drama series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Smart and Janney have both now equalled the record for the most acting wins ever, shared with Cloris Leachman and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite her past success, Janney was a surprise winner on Monday and said she was &#8220;genuinely shocked&#8221; to see off competition from four stars of hospital drama The Pitt, among others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, Rhea Seehorn won the first Emmy of her career for best lead actress in a drama series for Pluribus, the Apple TV show about a woman who discovers almost everyone else in the world has been taken over by a mysterious mind virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elsewhere, Jean Smart won best comedy actress for her role in the fifth and final series of Hacks.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-616992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616992","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=616992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}