Sarah Snook has made it three from three at award shows in 2024, claiming the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series to go with her Critic’s Choice and Golden Globe gongs.
It was the first Emmy from three nominations for Snook, who won for her performance as Shiv Roy in Succession.
The final season of the HBO drama was the most decorated title of the night alongside the second season of Hulu’s The Bear with six trophies, including Best Drama.
In her speech, Snook paid a special tribute to her family, both young and old.
“To my mum and my dad, I love you and thank you for having a dress up box when I was a kid — I think this is where it gets you,” she said.
“The biggest thank you goes to someone who won’t understand anything I’m saying at the moment but I carried her with me in this last season and really it was her who carried me. It’s very easy to act when you are pregnant because you have hormones raging. It was more that the proximity of her life growing inside me gave me the strength to do this performance.”
There was no such luck for fellow Australian Elizabeth Debicki, who lost out to The White Lotus‘ Jennifer Coolidge in the Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series, despite winning at the Golden Globe and Critic’s Choice Awards for her portrayal of Princess Diana in The Crown.
Murray Bartlett also went home empty-handed, losing out to Black Bird‘s Paul Walter Hauser in the Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie category, and The Last of Us co-star Nick Offerman in Outstanding Guest Actor In A Drama Series.
It was a similar story in the Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series, where Anna Torv lost to The Last of Us co-star Storm Reid.
There was some joy for Australians outside of the acting categories, with director Kim Gehrig’s Apple ad The Greatest winning Outstanding Commercial, while Fletcher Moules was recognised as one of the producers of the animated music special Entergalactic, which took home Outstanding Animated Program.
The 75th Primetime Emmys ceremony, hosted by comedian Anthony Anderson, was initially slated for September but ended up being pushed back as a result of the SAG-AFTRA strike.