Jamie Lee Curtis eyes historic back-to-back Emmy win as Comedy Guest Actress race heats up
Jamie Lee Curtis has her eye on Emmy history.
The Oscar winner is well-positioned to become just the third woman ever to win back-to-back Emmys for Best Comedy Guest Actress. Last year's champ for The Bear leads Gold Derby's early odds for reprising her role as Donna Berzatto, the volatile mother of Carmy (Jeremy Allen White), Michael (Jon Bernthal), and Natalie (Abby Elliott) on the FX on Hulu series.
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If Curtis achieves this feat, she will join Jean Smart (Frasier, 2000-01) and Maya Rudolph (Saturday Night Live, 2020-21) as the only women with consecutive victories in this category. Curtis was first nominated for an Emmy in 1998 for Best Movie/Limited Series Actress (Nicholas' Gift), though she ultimately lost to Ellen Barkin (Before Women Had Wings). A nomination this year for her role in The Bear would mark her third overall.
In second place, Julianne Nicholson could ride the Hacks wave to her second career Emmy for playing a TikTok sensation named Dance Mom. Nicholson won for Mare of Easttown in 2021, where she defeated costar Jean Smart — coincidentally — for Best Movie/Limited Series Supporting Actress. Hacks is the reigning Best Comedy Series winner and has won a total of nine Emmys to date — including one for Laurie Metcalf in this category in 2022.
Meanwhile, three-time Oscar nominee Cynthia Erivo hopes to boost her Emmy chances by playing quintuplets in the Season 2 premiere of Poker Face. In the episode titled "The Game is a Foot," the Wicked star embodies five distinct characters, as Natasha Lyonne's Charlie Cale attempts to unravel the mystery behind the murder of one of them. In 2023, Judith Light made history when she took home Peacock's first-ever Emmy for her guest performance in the Poker Face episode "Time of the Monkey."
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In fourth place is Maya Rudolph, who's back in contention for yet another standout performance on Saturday Night Live. The six-time Emmy winner earned raves for playing Vice President Kamala Harris throughout the 2024 presidential campaign. Rounding out the top six are two-time Emmy winner Melissa McCarthy for Only Murders in the Building and three-time nominee Kaitlin Olson for Hacks.
Potential dark horses in this race come from The Studio, Apple TV+'s latest comedy breakout. While the series is dominating the Comedy Guest Actor category, led by Brian Cranston in first place, the women may be underestimated. Zoe Kravitz and Sarah Polley are sitting in seventh and eighth place, respectively, with Olivia Wilde, Greta Lee, and Rebecca Hall falling outside the top 10.
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