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Yahoo
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘The Residence' Star Uzo Aduba Receives Comedy Actress Emmy Nomination After Series Cancellation
Uzo Aduba picked up a best comedy actress Emmy nomination for The Residence after the Netflix murder mystery was canceled after one season. Aduba starred as eccentric detective Cordelia Cupp, who was enlisted to help solve the murder of White House chief usher A.B. Wynter (Giancarlo Esposito) during a White House state dinner. Aduba as Cupp was billed as the 'greatest detective in the world.' More from The Hollywood Reporter Harrison Ford Lands First-Ever Emmy Nomination For 'Shrinking' 'Monsters: The Erik and Lyle Menendez Story' Nominated for Best Limited Series, 3 Acting Emmys Emmys 2025: List of Nominees Had The Residence gone to a second season, the plan was for the whodunnit to become an anthology series with Cupp taking on a new case each season. Aduba won an earlier Emmy in 2014 for outstanding guest actress in a comedy for her role as Suzanne 'Crazy Eyes' Warren on Orange Is the New Black, and a year later took the Emmy for outstanding actress in a drama for the same role. Then in 2020, Aduba was awarded the win for best actress in a limited series or movie for her role on Mrs. America. Netflix canceled The Residence after a one season run. The freshman series hailed from Shonda Rhimes' Shondaland and creator/showrunner Paul William Davies (Scandal). The Hollywood Reporter TV critic in a review of the series wrote: 'The Residence is an entertainingly chaotic goof, a dramedy that immediately sets a frantic tone that's only occasionally varied in the seven episodes (out of eight total) sent to critics. I found it both amusing and exhausting, with Aduba's performance and the energy of the wildly overstuffed ensemble elevating a mystery that's treated with too much frenzy to ever become emotionally involving.' The cast for the first (and only) season of the Columbo-esque mystery series also featured Randall Park, Giancarlo Esposito, Susan Kelechi Watson, Edwina Findley, Bronson Pinchot, Mary Wiseman, Julieth Restrepo, Al Mitchell, Mel Rodriguez, Ken Marino, Jason Lee and Jane Curtin, among others. Davies executive produced the series with Shondaland principals Rhimes and Betsy Beers. Best of The Hollywood Reporter 'The Studio': 30 Famous Faces Who Play (a Version of) Themselves in the Hollywood-Based Series 22 of the Most Shocking Character Deaths in Television History A 'Star Wars' Timeline: All the Movies and TV Shows in the Franchise Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
All the snubs (Selena Gomez, ‘Squid Game') and surprises (Uzo Aduba, ‘Survivor') at the 2025 Emmy nominations
'Tis the day of the Emmys and all through the house, surprises are stirring and snubs are inspiring grouse. While fans of Hacks, Severance, and The White Lotus had plenty to cheer about, Squid Game, The Handmaid's Tale and The Voice are among the high-profile shows that went overlooked by voters. On the other hand, Uzo Aduba and Colman Domingo pulled off surprise victories that the odds didn't see coming. We rounded up this morning's biggest snubs and surprises from the 2025 Emmy nominations. More from Gold Derby Here's how 'The Studio' scored a record 23 Emmy nominations 'Andor' scored 14 Emmy nominations, but missed 1 major category Looks like Martin Short will be representing the podcasting sleuths solo at this year's Emmys. Both of his Only Murders in the Building costars fell short in ultra-close battles for their respective categories. It would have been Gomez's second consecutive nomination for the series; she also missed out on a Best Supporting Actress mention at the Oscars earlier this year, which makes this latest snub part of an unfortunate trend. Meanwhile, Martin missed out on his third nomination with Shrinking's Jason Segel netting his second nod for the Apple TV+ series. At least both actors have Season 5 of Only Murders waiting in the wings. Aduba overcame the odds — and an early cancellation — to score a leading actress nod for the first and only season of Netflix's White House comedy from Shonda Rhimes. It's her first nomination for a comedy and her sixth acting nomination overall. Aduba has two wins on her record: a 2015 Best Drama Supporting Actress statuette for Orange is the New Black and a 2020 Best Limited/Move Supporting Actor statuette for Mrs. America. Looks like Netflix's all-star comedy wasn't a show for all seasons. Four Seasons cocreator and leading lady Tina Fey failed to drive a stake through the heart of its closest competitor — the final season of FX's cult vampire favorite What We Do in the Shadows — for that eighth comedy series slot. The series also came up empty in the acting categories... with one notable exception. Domingo spent the early months of 2025 on the Oscar circuit for his Best Actor nod in Sing Sing. Now, he'll spend these final summer months making the Emmy rounds for his scene-stealing Four Seasons role. Domingo slipped ahead of Abbott Elementary's Tyler James Williams, who had been leading in our odds for his fourth nomination. The first season of the Netflix sensation made Emmy history with 14 nominations and six wins, including Best Drama Actor and Best Drama Guest Actress — a first for a Korean-language series. But Season 2 was X-ed out of competition across all categories, with no repeat shot at a Best Drama Series Emmy. Maybe the odds will be in Season 3's favor next year. The Force wasn't strong with the star of Tony Gilroy's much-loved Star Wars series. In the show's second and final season, Luna completed Cassian Andor's journey from thief to revolutionary, with rogue status still looming in his future. While the show's second Best Drama Series nomination was expected, fans hoped that its star would be recognized now that his time in the far, far away galaxy is done. The final season of The Handmaid's Tale wasn't blessed with a comeback after all. Moss missed out on a show-capping nomination as Emmy voters instead granted a second nod to Sharon Horgan's Bad Sisters star turn. The Hulu series will factor into one race — Cherry Jones is nominated for Best Drama Guest Actress. Emmy voters apparently felt comfortable messing with Texas. Bibb's Lone Star state housewife was denied entry into the White Lotus supporting actress Emmy suite occupied by Carrie Coon, Parker Posey, Natasha Rothwell and Aimee Lou Wood. At least the actress can be a +1 alongside her partner and costar Sam Rockwell in the supporting actor room. The White Lotus supporting player missed out on the chance to be the first Schwarzenegger to get an Emmy nod for acting. (Patrick's father, Arnold, has a statuette for executive producing the 2014 Best Documentary or Nonfiction Series winner, Years of Living Dangerously.) His onscreen dad, Jason Isaacs, made the cut as did Walton Goggins and the aforementioned Rockwell. While it dominated the other acting categories, the odds weren't in The Studio's favor when it came to its guest actress stars. But Zoe Kravitz managed to score the show's single nomination, easing past Melissa McCarthy's turn as Steven Martin's very Jersey sister in Only Murders in the Building. Despite boasting A-list star power and registering on the Nielsen charts last summer, the streaming version of Scott Turow's blockbuster book fell by the wayside in favor of the return of Netflix's Black Mirror. Maybe the recently-announced Season 2 will receive a different verdict from voters. Fortunately, the series performed better in the acting categories with star Jake Gyllenhaal up for Best Limited/Movie Actor, Bill Camp and Peter Sarsgaard nominated in the supporting actor category and Ruth Negga in the running for supporting actress. We called it. After lingering outside of the Top 5 in our TV movie odds for a stretch, The Gorge made a late-campaign surge and vaulted Apple TV+ into the race alongside streamers like Netflix, HBO Max and Peacock. Looks for Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy on the Emmys red carpet. With the variety talk series category shrinking from four slots to three, one perennial nominee was going to get left out in the cold. And that nominee turned out to be Meyers, who couldn't pull ahead of regular competitors Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and Jon Stewart. The snub breaks Late Night's three-year nomination streak in this category. Meyers did see nominations in the best short form category as well as one of the long list of writers who made SNL50 a reality. The CBS reality show war horse galloped over The Voice in an unexpected upset, breaking the NBC show's 13-year run as a nominee in this category. Survivor made its comeback after missing out on a nomination last year, suggesting that fans aren't the only ones looking forward to the 50th edition that's on deck for 2026. Best of Gold Derby Everything to know about 'The Pitt' Season 2, including the departure of Tracy Ifeachor's Dr. Collins Everything to know about 'Too Much,' Lena Dunham's Netflix TV show starring Megan Stalter that's kinda, sorta 'based on a true story' Cristin Milioti, Amanda Seyfried, Michelle Williams, and the best of our Emmy Limited Series/Movie Actress interviews Click here to read the full article.
USA Today
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Emmy Award-winning actress on mission to show family caregivers they aren't alone
Emmy Award-winning actress on mission to show family caregivers they aren't alone Award-winning actress Uzo Aduba narrates the PBS documentary "Caregiving," which premieres June 24 at 9 p.m. EST. Show Caption Hide Caption Hulu's 'The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat' tracks three best pals Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Sanaa Lathan and Uzo Aduba star as a trio of best friends in the Hulu drama "The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat." Emmy Award-winning actress Uzo Aduba cared for her mom, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2019, for 495 days. But for a while, Aduba never considered herself a caregiver. 'One day our mother was fine, and then one day she wasn't," Aduba told USA TODAY. "So in the middle of 'wasn't,' you're just trying to figure out how to assemble the pieces to keep life as quote-unquote 'normal' as possible.' More: The caregiving crisis is real. USA TODAY wants to hear from you about how to solve it. Aduba said she always associated the term "caregiver" with medical staff. Now, she knows there are millions of caregivers across the country with no medical training, who − like her − were thrust into caregiving roles without warning once their loved one got sick. 'I didn't realize that there was this whole framework, frankly, of loved ones who were serving in this sort of invisible labor, all across the country, day in, day out, in varying ways, as caregivers to people," she said. Now, she wants other family caregivers to know they aren't alone. Aduba, known for her roles in the television series "Orange Is the New Black" and "The Residence," narrates the PBS documentary "Caregiving," which premieres June 24 at 9 p.m. EST. The film was created with executive producer and Academy Award-nominated actor Bradley Cooper and features caregivers from across the country. 'It was the reading of the stories, of the history of it, the families, the individuals involved in caregiving, the advocates for it that drew me to it because I saw a lot of myself in the portraiture," Aduba said of the film. "I belong to the caregiving community." The need for care is universal, said Ai-jen Poo, executive director and board secretary for Caring Across Generations. She hopes having celebrities like Aduba and Cooper speak out about their caregiving experience will help people see how caregiving connects us all. More: A caregiver dad, Bradley Cooper and how a national crisis inspired an unexpected film 'It is a reminder that every single one of us is touched by the need for care,' she said. 'As I write this, my mother is dying.' Uzo Aduba shares caregiving story in memoir released last year Aduba shared some of her caregiving experience in her book, "The Road is Good," which was released in September 2024. The sweeping memoir tells her story of growing up in a Nigerian immigrant family in Massachusetts. But Aduba's life story, as she notes in the book, is also the story of her relationship with her mother. There's no way to separate the two narratives. She starts the book with: "As I write this, my mother is dying." Aduba wrote of the range of emotions that came once her mother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer: fear, anxiety, frustration and grief. She wrote of the the ups and downs of those 495 days, which collided with the COVID-19 pandemic, her engagement, and wedding. She also wrote of the duller moments of care that other family caregivers can relate to. "We took naps and watched whatever we could find on TV. We ordered takeout from the fancy steakhouse in town. We waited, stared at our phones, and took turns curling up with our mother in the hospital bed," she wrote in the book. Aduba said she and her sisters took shifts in caring for their mother. Later, when her mother went into hospice, Aduba described the hospice nurse as an angel. In her culture, Aduba explained, caregiving is "the greatest show of love." Aduba's time with her mother was priceless: 'I would do it again.' Another caregiver featured in the documentary, Matthew Cauli, is outspoken on social media about how difficult it is for caregivers to access resources. "I had to quit my job to go into poverty in order to get on Medicaid so that my wife could get some treatment," Cauli, who cares for his sick wife and young son, said in a recent social media post. "I've been in poverty for five years, credit card debt for five years. And I am stuck, I'm stuck, I'm stuck." In working on the film, Aduba said she learned a lot about how massive the caregiving crisis is. When she was a caregiver for her mom, she said, she didn't realize that resources were out there at all. 'We had no knowledge that that even existed, you know?' Aduba said. More: Chronic illness can be hard on marriage. Studies show it's worse when the wife is sick. There are a lot of family caregivers out there who don't know where to get resources, or that help exists, or about the policies advocates are trying to enact to bring more relief to caregivers. Aduba said the film does a great job at shining a light on the history of caregiving and advocacy work happening now to make things better. Aduba and her sisters didn't have time to think about anything else while they were caring for their mother, Aduba told USA TODAY. When you care for someone, she said, "your needs are second" to the patient. Her own health needs took a back seat during that time, her sleep schedule turned upside down and her free time ceased to exist. 'I would do it again," she said. "But I also know that I'm speaking from a place of immense privilege and not everybody... there are other people who are carrying way more than I on their day to day while also having to navigate caregiving at the same time.' Madeline Mitchell's role covering women and the caregiving economy at USA TODAY is supported by a partnership with Pivotal Ventures and Journalism Funding Partners. Funders do not provide editorial input. Reach Madeline at memitchell@ and @maddiemitch_ on X.
Los Angeles Times
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
In Netflix's ‘The Residence,' Uzo Aduba doesn't tell jokes — but she's seriously funny
When Uzo Aduba's mother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, the actor stepped into the role of caregiver until her mother's death. During the grievous period, the three-time Emmy winner etched the beginnings of a memoir, published last year, called 'The Road Is Good: How a Mother's Strength Became a Daughter's Purpose.' In it, Aduba writes, 'This is a story not about death but about life. This is my mother's story as much as it is my own.' That deep connection to her mother has come to define her. 'The woman that I have become is founded on the way I was mothered. I am the daughter of Nonyem Aduba, and so much of the way she moved through life as a woman — not only did it impact and shape my fortitude and commitment to working hard, but even how I see characters, specifically female characters, is built off the teachings that were poured into me as a daughter.' Best known among those characters is certainly Suzanne 'Crazy Eyes' Warren on Netflix's 'Orange Is the New Black,' a breakout role for which Aduba earned two Emmy Awards. That performance opened other doors, including portraying former politician and presidential candidate Shirley Chisholm in Hulu's 2020 miniseries 'Mrs. America.' Her galvanizing depiction brought a third Emmy. 'People really did take a real liking to her as a human, despite the politics, which I think is fascinating given the time. We're talking about a woman, a Black woman in a very specific chapter in American history, so close to the Civil Rights Act,' she says of coming to understand Chisholm. Have such successes validated her journey as an actor, one she nearly gave up on in leaner days? 'I became an actor because I loved the creation of art, to tell stories,' she says. 'However, I, too, have felt the worry looming from the artist's doubt: Is there space in this room for a voice like mine to exist? And I'd say that, throughout the years, these wins, given to me by my peers, have left me encouraged to believe that yes, there is.' Her voice comes now by way of Cordelia Cupp, a full-time birder and part-time crime solver in Netflix's 'The Residence,' from creator Paul William Davies. The eight-episode whodunit, from Shonda Rhimes' production company, Shondaland, is set in the halls of the White House, where the death of one of its East Wing employees during a state dinner party triggers panic. Enter the cape-wearing Cupp with her superhero ability to read people and spot clues. For Aduba, the character jumped off the page. 'I remember reading the material, and she had this power that was really present for me. It would seem like she would get just a grain of information and there would suddenly be a wealth of knowledge that she was able to extract from it.' Finding the character's mannerisms was another central study. 'She read like somebody who spoke really fast because she processes information really quickly. So I wanted her to be able to speak as fast as possible and for us to get inside the head of how she does her investigative work,' she says. 'This is a woman who listens to the proposition you said, then she's like a hawk — pun intended — perched up on the investigative table. So I started thinking this might be an exercise of stillness both when she speaks and when she listens.' That stillness — an uncomfortable silence to many — often leads those being questioned to fill the void with more information than they intended to share. During one magnetic monologue, where Cupp pieces the clues together to whom she believes is the killer, we see all the cogs of her intelligence and humor turning swiftly. 'She takes her job very seriously, and for me to achieve that technically, it inspired this idea of flatlining her a little bit. It felt like she's not here to tell jokes but what she says is funny. She's five feet gone past the joke, and you're like, 'Wait, what did she just say?'' Aduba's full name is Uzoamaka Nwanneka Aduba. She was born in Massachusetts to Nigerian immigrants and, as a teen, was an exceptional figure skater: one who could land double axels with a practiced ease that betrayed the intense commitment behind them. She attended Boston University on a track-and-field scholarship as a sprinter, studying classical voice and discovering acting. Today, she's the mother to a daughter and seems to have softened her intensity: She has a passion for cooking, reading books (Paulo Coelho's 'The Alchemist' is a favorite) and watching reality television. Her guilty pleasure: 'The Real Housewives.' And she still holds her time as a caregiver close, recently providing the narration for Bradley Cooper's documentary 'Caregiving,' which is a hard look at care in America. She connected with Cooper's story of caring for his father during his fight with lung cancer. 'I know what that life looks like. I know what that world is. I know what it means to be juggling your front-facing life with your private life, your professional responsibilities with your familial desires,' Aduba says. 'I could just see a lot of myself in those stories, and that made it a real no-brainer for me,' she adds. 'This is an opportunity to try and spotlight that work happening every single day, and we might, through this process, alleviate some of the stress and the overwhelming feelings that come with that invisible labor.'
NBC News
25-03-2025
- Entertainment
- NBC News
Uzo Aduba leads White House mystery series 'The Residence'
One of TV's most prolific producers, Shonda Rhimes, is back at the White House, but this time without 'Scandal' and Olivia Pope. That doesn't mean the drama has stopped. It's just wrapped in a lot of wit and humor. There's been a murder at the White House and eccentric detective Cordelia Cupp is on the job to figure out whodunit in the eight-episode Netflix series 'The Residence,' starring three-time Emmy winner Uzo Aduba. Cordelia Cupp arrives at the White House tasked with solving whether chief usher A.B. Wynter (an impactful Giancarlo Esposito who stepped in for the late Andre Braugher) killed himself or was murdered during a state dinner. The investigation reveals the intricate inner workings of the White House from its head chef to its janitors. Aduba told NBC News that she appreciated her character's sharp mind. 'I love her precision,' she said during the 2025 SCAD TV Festival in Atlanta. 'I love how she doesn't miss a beat. She's really exacting with her words. I think she's just smart. She sees every detail in the room and is able to put together all the necessary pieces to solve the case.' Cupp incorporates another passion into her detective work: 'She's a bird-watcher,' Aduba said. 'She brings all of herself, including bird-watching, to her cases,' she added. Throughout the series, the ace detective is rarely caught without her binoculars and is prone to bird-watching as she interrogates. The cast of actors includes 'This Is Us' star Susan Kelechi Watson as Jasmine, who had dreamed of replacing A.B. Wynter. 'Saturday Night Live' alum Jane Curtain plays the president's mother-in-law, while Bronson Pinchot, from the 'Beverly Hills Cop' franchise, is Chef Didier Gothard. Randall Park, from 'Fresh Off the Boat,' plays skeptical FBI agent Edwin Park working alongside Cupp to solve the mystery. 'The Wire' alumni Edwina Findley and Isiah Whitlock, Jr., play boozy White House butler/server and Metropolitan Police Department chief respectively. Comedian and former Minnesota Sen. Al Franken plays a senator leading an investigation into security failings at the White House. Even pop star Kylie Minogue is in the mix. Aduba said Cupp's ability to sift through more than 150 murder suspects and a string of confusing clues comes naturally to her character. 'She has absolute confidence in herself and her abilities, and will not allow anyone's idea of who she is or what she can do be the dominating factor in defining who she is,' she said. Being the best at what she does, however, is not what motivates Cordelia Cupp. 'I think Cordelia is definitely driven by the truth,' Aduba said in a Zoom interview. 'She wants to get the answer. She wants to get to the root. So she'll do whatever needs to be done to chase that down. And she loves, once she has done that, having everything explained in some way. That helps to make the world make sense.' Aduba said taking on the lead for 'The Residence' was a fulfilling job, especially under Rhimes' 'warm and supportive' Shondaland banner. 'You can feel that from Shonda herself,' Aduba said. 'She does the good work, also.' She added that Rhimes buoys everybody up. 'I know it is not by accident that they have found that success, because they operate with discipline and their modus operandi is one of excellence that continually sets the bar for the industry.'
