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19-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
The Youngest And Oldest Emmy Winners Ever
So, Owen Cooper recently became one of the youngest nominees for an Emmy Award at 15 years old for Adolescence. He received a nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Anthology Series or Movie for portraying 13-year-old Jamie Miller in the hit Netflix series about a troubled teen. The nomination made him the youngest nominee in the history of the category. If Owen wins at the 2025 Emmys, he would be the youngest male winner of any acting Emmy ever. With that being said, here's all the youngest and oldest actors to ever win an Emmy in the history of the awards show: Roxana Zal was only 14 years old when she won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Special for Something About Amelia in 1984. Roxana remains, to this day, the youngest Emmy winner ever. Roxana portrayed Amelia Bennett in the 1984 made-for-TV movie with Glenn Close and Ted Danson. Kristy McNichol had just celebrated her 15th birthday when she took home a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Continuing Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for Family in 1977. Kristy portrayed Buddy Lawrence in the TV series, which earned her two Emmys. She won her second Emmy in 1979. Scott Jacoby was 16 when he won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama for That Certain Summer in 1973. Scott portrayed Nick Salter in the 1972 TV film alongside Hal Holbrook, Martin Sheen, and Hope Lange. Anthony Murphy was 17 years old when he earned a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in Tom Brown's Schooldays Masterpiece Theater in 1973. Anthony portrayed Tom Brown in the British television serial, which also won Best Miniseries after airing on PBS. Jharrel Jerome was 21 years old when he won Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for When They See Us in 2019. Jharrel is currently the youngest to win in this category. Jharrel portrayed Korey Wise in Ava DuVernay's Netflix miniseries. Richard Thomas was 23 years old when he claimed Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for The Waltons in 1973. Richard portrayed John-Boy Walton in the CBS drama series from 1972 to 1978, and appeared in several TV specials with his TV family. Michael J. Fox was 25 years old when he won Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for Family Ties in 1986. Michael portrayed Alex P. Keaton in the TV sitcom from 1982 to 1989. Jodie Comer was 26 years old when she won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for Killing Eve in 2019, becoming the youngest up to that point. Jodie portrayed the assassin Villanelle in the BBC America thriller, which earned her a handful of other awards, including a BAFTA. The following year, Zendaya won Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for Euphoria in 2020, making history as the youngest ever in that category. Zendaya played Rue Bennett in the HBO series, which earned her first Emmy. She won again for Euphoria in 2022 when she was 26. While not a Primetime Emmy, Kristos Andrews won 11 Daytime Emmy awards for The Bay before he turned 31. He won five awards for lead actor, another five as executive producer, and one for directing. Kristos played Pete Garrett in the crime-drama series, which has earned 64 nominations total. Eugene Levy was 73 years old when he won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for Schitt's Creek in 2020. Eugene is currently the oldest winner in the category. Eugene played Johnny Rose alongside his son Dan (who played David Rose) in the TV sitcom from 2015 to 2020. Richard Kiley was 66 years old when he won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in Drama Series for A Year in the Life in 1988. Richard played Joe Gardner in the TV series, which was originally a three-part miniseries in the '80s. Cloris Leachman was 80 years old when she won her eighth Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for Malcolm in the Middle in 2006. Cloris portrayed Grandma Ida in several episodes of Malcolm in the Middle, winning two awards in 2002 and 2006. Elaine Stritch was 82 years old when she won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for 30 Rock in 2007. Elaine portrayed Jack Donaghy's (Alec Baldwin) mother, Colleen Donaghy, and won the award for the Season 1 finale, "Hiatus." Betty White was 88 years old when she won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for hosting Saturday Night Live in 2010. The win made her one of the oldest guest actor winners ever. Betty hosted Season 35, Episode 21 with special musical guest Jay-Z in 2010. Carol Burnett was 91 years old when she accepted an Emmy for Outstanding Variety Special as the executive producer of 90 Years of Laughter + Love in 2024. The NBC special included tributes from other famous celebrities, including Sheryl Lee Ralph, Tina Fey, Julie Andrews, Oprah, former president Joe Biden, and first lady Jill Biden, Cher, Laura Dern, Ellen DeGeneres, and musical performances from Katy Perry, Bernadette Peters, and more. Sir David Attenborough was 94 years old when he won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Narrator for Seven Worlds, One Planet – Antarctica. Sir Attenborough has won three Emmy Awards in total and became one of the oldest winners ever in 2018 for the narration of Blue Planet II – One Ocean. In 2020, Norman Lear was 98 years old when he won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Variety Special (Live) as executive producer of Live in Front of a Studio Audience: All in the Family & Good Times. Norman won the same award the previous year as executive producer of Live In Front Of A Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All In The Family" And "The Jeffersons." Lastly, Dick Van Dyke was 98 years old when he won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Guest Performance in a Drama Series for Days of Our Lives in 2024. The win made him the oldest Daytime Emmy winner ever. Dick portrayed John Doe, aka Timothy Robicheaux, in several episodes of the soap opera. Do you have a favorite performance from these incredible actors mentioned? Share in the comments!
Indian Express
28-06-2025
- Sport
- Indian Express
How rejected South Asian players are finding a pathway into County system
Tom Brown didn't want the findings of his doctoral research to gather dust in some library, nor did he fancy the idea of being on television talking about his work. A competent club cricketer in multicultural Birmingham, and later Warwickshire's performance coach, Brown's PhD was about a statistic that was a riddle to him. On the English cricket circuit, he would often hear that British South Asians form 30 percent of those playing recreational games but only 5 percent of them pursue it professionally. Brown's academic fact-finding showed that the problem wasn't with the cricket-crazy South Asians. What needed to change was the system, which favoured privately-educated and white cricketers. That's when the doer in him got busy. 'As a coach, researcher and player, I've gone through the worries of the system. I felt responsible; if I didn't do it, who is going to do it?' he tells The Indian Express. Brown, with the help of his cricket contacts, would start the South Asian Cricket Academy (SACA), an initiative that brings non-contracted brown cricketers – some rejected, some overlooked, some disillusioned – back on the radar. Helping him in his ventures, over the years, have been the South Asian community's role models like Kabir Ali, Moeen Ali, Adil Rashid and Owais Shah, players who Brown had shared the cricket field with. In about three-and-half years since its inception, SACA has become England's most productive assembly line for the counties. 'We have 14 guys who have professional contracts, making us one of the most successful academies in the country, maybe the world …,' he laughs. He isn't joking, merely stating facts. The SACA website celebrates the graduation of every pupil. There is Aman Rao, the 6'6' pacer with natural bounce, who has joined Gloucestershire; Vansh Jani, the batsman with four big hundreds, now plays for Warwickshire; Zaman Akhter is said to be England's fastest pacer. He turned out for England Lions against the Indians during the ongoing tour. And then there's SACA's grandest success story – the one featuring leg-spinner Jafer Chouhan. Just last month, he was picked for England's ODI team that toured the West Indies. He is on the wish-list of many T20 franchises also. All of these players were weeded out of the system, till SACA gave them a second life. England suddenly has a larger pool and don't be surprised if a spike is seen in South Asian representation. 'We pick players who are 18 and don't have a contract. They are trained. They are also given gym, nutrition and psychological support. We give them basically everything a pro cricket player needs. We form a team that plays county second and main teams in friendlies,' Brown explains. Most importantly, at SACA, they also are sensitive to the culture of the South Asian community, something Brown's research shows had been missing on England's cricketing greens for years. He calls it 'cultural ignorance', different from racial bias. Brown explains with an example that shows the depth of his research. 'If I am training a South Asian kid and he is looking down and not asking questions, I would probably look at him and go, 'well, he's not interested', he hasn't got the right character for this.' I didn't know that that's how they (South Asians) show respect,' he says, pointing how 'cultural ignorance' would have cut short many promising careers. With SACA, those who missed out are returning and the stories of Amar, Vansh, Akhter and Chouhan have lengthened the queue. Last time, Brown says, they got about 500 applications. They shortlisted 60 but could have easily taken in 150 quality players. It was the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) who had funded Brown's research and they have been backing SACA for the last two years. Earlier, it was Birmingham City University. Those picked have quality. 'There was this incident early in the year when 15 of our best players were training. And there were others playing two games, against Yorkshire and Essex at the same time. We won both those games,' he says. It is at such games that the academy boys are spotted and signed by counties. SACA is around to negotiate. 'We create a bit more competition in the market. We tell counties that if you're not going to sign this player, we're going to take him to another county,' he says. When SACA players get signed, Brown is happy but that isn't his most satisfying moment. It's the bonhomie between players from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and others playing as a team. 'When I started this program, people thought it would be very… almost toxic… but the real strength of the programme is the unity of the community. They are really close-knit. They work and help each other achieve this dream of becoming professional cricketers. I think it is so powerful and that's the most rewarding thing for you.' It needed Dr Brown to address English cricket's very brown problem.
Daily Mail
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Seven's Stranded on Honeymoon Island gets bumped to later time slot amid dire ratings - as cast member goes rogue and reveals major spoiler
Seven's Stranded on Honeymoon Island only made its debut this week. But the dating show is in all sorts of trouble as it faces dire ratings - while a cast member has taken to social media to reveal a major spoiler. Matched with 29-year-old executive Emily, business analyst Tom Brown, 30, appears to have wasted no time moving on after the show completed filming in 2023. Posting to his Instagram, Tom has shared steady updates on his new relationship with fiancée Morgan Mitchell, who competed on this year's Australian Survivor. He's even shared the news that he's fathered twins - Honey and Maya with Morgan last month, after the couple were engaged in July 2024. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. Tom's decision to share relationship details is considered a no-no in reality TV world, especially while a show is on air with storylines yet to play out. His posts have included pictures of himself holding one of his newborn twins, while Morgan holds her sister and takes a selfie. Another photo shows the couple posing with a 'twin pram'. Meanwhile, Stranded on Honeymoon Island has been bumped to a later time slot after its underwhelming debut on Monday. This means Seven's hopes of replicating the success of Nine's Married at First Sight with its own raunchy dating series are sinking fast. The show managed an average of 539,000 viewers nationally with its premiere episode, but by Tuesday fans had already deserted the romantic castaways by the thousands. Only 376,000 fans tuned for the second two-hour episode. Now, TV Tonight reports that Seven has moved the show from its prized 7.30 pm slot to 8.30 pm next Monday - but will screen Tuesday's episode at 7.30 pm. The industry blog also states that episodes planned for July 7 and July 8 remain scheduled for 7.30 pm. A combination of MAFS and Survivor, the long-awaited show follows 12 unlucky-in-love singles who are stranded on a remote island with no hope of escape for 21 days. Narrated by high-profile radio host Jackie 'O' Henderson, the format is based on a hit Danish concept and adapted locally by Endemol Shine Australia. It comes after Stranded On Honeymoon Island's Amy Dickinson has opened up about her wild ride on Seven's new reality dating experiment. Speaking to Daily Mail Australia on Tuesday, Amy, 30, revealed that she was left 'petrified' after being matched with motorsport presenter Mike, 37, and knew almost immediately that their honeymoon was going to be anything but blissful. 'I called it Nightmare Island immediately,' she admitted. 'As soon as I got to the island, I kind of realised what I'd got myself into… I had a little panic attack.' Despite feeling an instant spark with another contestant during the chaotic two-minute speed dating round, Amy was blindsided when she was paired with Mike - and the red flags started waving before they even reached their bamboo hut. 'In his vows, he made a comment about hoping his future wife could make a better sandwich than his mum,' she revealed. 'He claimed he wrote it when he was seven, but that was obviously a lie. I don't like liars – and I definitely don't like misogynists.' The influencer, who joined the show hoping the experts would have better taste in men than she does, said she's had her fair share of toxic relationships. When asked what viewers can expect from the series, Amy teased: 'Drama. Tears. Chaos. It's so raw.' 'It's like MAFS on steroids. With MAFS, you kinda know what to expect now - cheating scandals, wine throwing - it's textbook.
Time of India
24-06-2025
- Business
- Time of India
At Amazon's biggest data centre, everything is supersized for AI
A year ago, a 1,200-acre stretch of farmland outside New Carlisle, Indiana, was an empty cornfield. Now, seven Amazon data centres rise up from the rich soil, each larger than a football stadium. Over the next several years, Amazon plans to build around 30 data centres at the site, packed with hundreds of thousands of specialized computer chips. With hundreds of thousands of miles of fibre connecting every chip and computer together, the entire complex will form one giant machine intended just for artificial intelligence. The facility will consume 2.2 gigawatts of electricity—enough to power 1 million homes. Each year, it will use millions of gallons of water to keep the chips from overheating. And it was built with a single customer in mind: AI startup Anthropic, which aims to create an AI system that matches the human brain. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like War Thunder - Register now for free and play against over 75 Million real Players War Thunder Play Now Undo The complex—so large that it can be viewed completely only from high in the sky—is the first in a new generation of data centres being built by Amazon, and part of what the company calls Project Rainier, after the mountain that looms near its Seattle headquarters. Project Rainier will also include facilities in Mississippi and possibly other locations, like North Carolina and Pennsylvania. Project Rainier is Amazon's entry into a race by the technology industry to build data centres so large they would have been considered absurd just a few years ago. Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, is building a 2-gigawatt data centre in Louisiana. OpenAI is erecting a 1.2-gigawatt facility in Texas and another, nearly as large, in the United Arab Emirates. Live Events These data centres will dwarf most of today's, which were built before OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot inspired the AI boom in 2022. The tech industry's increasingly powerful AI technologies require massive networks of specialized computer chips—and hundreds of billions of dollars to build the data centres that house those chips. The result: behemoths that stretch the limits of the electrical grid and change the way the world thinks about computers. Discover the stories of your interest Blockchain 5 Stories Cyber-safety 7 Stories Fintech 9 Stories E-comm 9 Stories ML 8 Stories Edtech 6 Stories Amazon, which has invested $8 billion in Anthropic, will rent computing power from the new facility to its startup partner. An Anthropic co-founder, Tom Brown, who oversees the company's work with Amazon on its chips and data centres, said having all that computing power in one spot could allow the startup to train a single AI system. "If you want to do one big run, you can do it," he said. Amazon has been working on the technology used in this complex for almost a decade. In 2015, the tech giant acquired an Israeli chip designer, Annapurna Labs. A year later, at a lab in Austin, Texas, Annapurna—which continued to operate as a largely independent team of engineers—began designing the company's first computer chip dedicated to AI. This initial chip, called Inferentia, was not widely used. But developing a viable computer chip requires years of design. Annapurna Labs developed its latest new chip, Trainium 2, alongside engineers at Anthropic. They tailored it for a massive complex like the one in New Carlisle. "It's a journey," said Gadi Hutt, senior director of customer and product engineering at Annapurna Labs. The Amazon chips are not as elaborate or as powerful as the latest chips from Nvidia, the Silicon Valley chipmaker that dominates AI work. But Amazon believes that by packing twice as many of these simpler chips into each data centre, it can provide more computing power using the same amount of electricity. "If we provide the performance that our customers want," Hutt said, "then why choose to make a lot of exotic engineering choices that will just slow us down and cause delays?" Amazon, which has been building data centres for more than 18 years to run its online retail business and to rent computing services to other businesses, has accelerated its data centre expansion for work on AI "pretty significantly," said Prasad Kalyanaraman, an Amazon vice president, standing in a construction trailer at the site in Indiana. Just a few months after OpenAI released ChatGPT in late 2022, Amazon was in talks with electrical utilities to find a site for its AI ambitions. In Indiana, a subsidiary of American Electric Power , or AEP, suggested that Amazon tour tracts of farmland 15 miles west of South Bend that had been rezoned into an industrial centre. By the end of May 2023, more than a dozen Amazon employees had visited the site. By early 2024, Amazon owned the land, which was still made up of corn and soybean fields. Indiana's legislature approved a 50-year sales tax break for the company, which could ultimately be worth around $4 billion, according to the Citizens Action Coalition, a consumer and environmental advocacy organisation. Separate property and technology tax breaks granted by the county could save Amazon an additional $4 billion over the next 35 years. The exact cost of developing the data centre complex is not clear. In the tax deal, Amazon promised $11 billion to build 16 buildings, but now it plans to build almost twice that. The total number of buildings is not determined yet and will depend in part on whether the company gets permission, over vocal community opposition, to build on a 10-acre wetland in the middle of the complex. Amazon intends to build on the wetland, pointing out that it is a small, shallow wetland, not a major nature preserve. To complete construction as fast as possible, Amazon hired four general contractors to work simultaneously. "I don't know if they're competing for cash or steak dinner or what, but it's crazy how much they're getting up," said Bill Schalliol, a county economic development official. "Steel starts to go up here, the next day steel's going up over there." On a typical week, about 4,000 workers are on site, Schalliol said. Local hotels have been full, and there has been such an uptick in congestion and traffic accidents that Amazon agreed to pay $120,000 to cover overtime for traffic enforcement and an additional $7 million for road improvements. To bury the fibre optic cables connecting the buildings and to install other underground infrastructure, Amazon had to pump water out of the wet ground. One permit application showed that the company requested permission to pump 2.2 million gallons an hour, for 730 days. State officials are now investigating if the process, known as dewatering, is the reason some neighbours are reporting dry wells. Some locals have protested the way the project has progressed, complaining that it has caused water problems, increased traffic and noise and significantly altered the look and feel of this agricultural community, and that it could ruin the small natural wetland in the middle of the complex. "You can see the mountain of dirt they are ready to shove on those wetlands," said Dan Caruso, a retired mail carrier who lives in New Carlisle, pointing to a cluster of tall trees next to a newly plowed parking lot at the construction site. "Wildlife depends on those wetlands." By early June, seven buildings had been constructed and bulldozers were moving dirt on the site of an eighth. What is currently being used as a parking lot will soon become the ninth. Amazon's approach differs from that of Google, Microsoft and Meta, companies that are packing far more powerful chips into their data centres and relying on more energy-intensive techniques to cool the chips down. Because Amazon is using a significantly smaller chip, the company can cool its new complex in simpler ways. It pumps air from outside the buildings through handlers the size of cargo containers and in hot months uses municipal water to cool the air. The approach is more efficient, according to Kalyanaraman, so the company can use more of the available electricity to run its AI chips. AEP has told regulators that new, large-scale data centres will more than double the amount of peak power it must provide Indiana, from about 2.8 gigawatts in 2024 to more than 7 gigawatts by approximately 2030. Amazon's campus alone accounts for about half of the additional load growth. "It will be the largest power user in the state of Indiana by a country mile," said Ben Inskeep of the Citizens Action Coalition. The utility told regulators in April that it expected to use natural gas plants to provide about three-quarters of the additional power that would be needed by 2030. As Amazon expands this massive facility, some experts are beginning to ask if the rapid progress of AI over the last several years will soon hit a wall. Some studies show that progress is slowing. But Kalyanaraman said this was not a risk. Anthropic plans to train—essentially build—AI systems with this giant complex. But Kalyanaraman said that if training became significantly more efficient or if AI development hit a wall, it could also be used to deliver AI technologies to customers. "The amount of infrastructure we're building here is so much that if you dedicate it just for training, it's not efficient," he said. "We expect to use these same clusters for multiple needs."
ABC News
23-06-2025
- ABC News
Sunnybank man charged with assault over alleged attack on bus driver in South Brisbane
A man has been charged with assault after allegedly attacking a Brisbane bus driver. Video footage of the incident shows a man in a green tracksuit in an altercation with the bus driver near the middle doors of the vehicle. The bus driver appeared to attempt to push the man out of the doors, before the man punched the driver in the face several times. State Secretary of the Rail Tram and Bus Union, Tom Brown, said the 46-year-old driver had injuries to his ear and face following the alleged attack. Police allege the incident occurred on a bus in South Brisbane just before 6pm on Friday, and said a report was made on Saturday afternoon. A 21-year-old man was charged with assault occasioning bodily harm on Monday morning after being arrested in Sunnybank on Sunday night. Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner spoke out about the incident on social media. "Violence against our hard-working bus drivers and other frontline workers should never be tolerated," he said.
