{"id":600747,"date":"2026-09-15T04:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T04:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/600747\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T04:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T04:30:13","slug":"2026-emmy-supporting-comedy-actress-kate-oflynn-wins-for-widows-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/600747\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Emmy Supporting Comedy Actress: Kate O\u2019Flynn Wins For \u2018Widow’s Bay\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWidow\u2019s Bay star Kate O\u2019Flynn won the Emmy<\/a> for best supporting comedy actress on Monday night.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis marked the actress\u2019 first Emmy, after receiving her first nomination ever. During her acceptance speech, O\u2019Flynn thanked series creator Katie Dippold and executive producer\/director Hiro Murai, noting that playing the character Patricia was \u201cthe role of a lifetime.\u201d (Dippold went on to win the 2026 Emmy for writing for a comedy series, while Murai won for comedy series directing.) <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI wanna thank our mayor and all the residents of Widow\u2019s Bay in front and behind the camera. You\u2019re amazing,\u201d she said, a reference to her role as Patricia Moyer, the assistant to Mayor Tom Loftis (Matthew Rhys). \u201cThis is the role of a lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe continued, \u201cThank you, Katie and Hero for trusting this Lancashire lass to play a sassy broad like Patricia, and Apple for saying yes. Thank you Nicky and Tony for looking after me, my friends and family back home, mum and dad, and the loves of my life, my darling husband and our darling daughter, another sassy broad in the making.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis is for all the Patricia\u2019s out there. See you at Sunset Cocktails to celebrate,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n

\n\tO\u2019Flynn won the 2026 Emmy, beating out fellow nominees Dale Dickey (Widow\u2019s Bay), Hannah Einbinder (Hacks), Janelle James (Abbott Elementary), Michelle Pfeiffer (Margo\u2019s Got Money Troubles), Megan Stalter (Hacks) and Jessica Williams (Shrinking). Amy Poehler presented her with the award.<\/p>\n

\n\tHeading into Monday night\u2019s ceremony, The Pitt\u00a0led the nominees<\/a> with a total of 25 nods, followed by Hacks\u00a0with 24 (which set a a record for a comedy series nominations in a single year) and\u00a0Widow\u2019s Bay\u00a0with 19<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 78th Emmy Awards<\/a> telecast live from the Peacock Theater at L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles Monday night on NBC, streaming on Peacock. Mariska Hargitay served as the night\u2019s host, after last week winning two Emmys<\/a> at the Creative Arts ceremony. <\/p>\n

\n\tSee the full 2026 Emmys winners list<\/a>, and all the dazzling red carpet looks here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Widow\u2019s Bay star Kate O\u2019Flynn won the Emmy for best supporting comedy actress on Monday night. This marked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[10779,430,23281,256846,13859,156,111,139,69,213438],"class_list":["post-600747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-awards","tag-celebrities","tag-emmy-awards","tag-emmy-awards-2026","tag-emmys","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-widows-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}