Zendaya has won yet another Emmy for her performance in the celebrated series 'Euphoria'!
On Tuesday, Zendaya bagged the Emmy award for 'Lead Actress in a Drama' for her portrayal of Rue Benett in Euphoria. This is Zendaya's second Emmy award. She won her first in 2020 for Euphoria.
Zendaya has a total of four Emmy nominations this year.
Apart from 'Lead Actress in a Drama series', she is nominated for her work as an executive producer on the second season of 'Euphoria' and two Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics nominations for the songs 'Elliot's Song' and 'I'm Tired', both featured on 'Euphoria' season two, which is nominated Outstanding Drama category.
For her role as Rue in 'Euphoria', she already made history in 2020 by becoming the youngest lead actress drama winner (24 at the time), and only the second-ever Black woman to win the category, following Viola Davis for 'How to Get Away With Murder'.
Based on the Israeli series of the same name, which was created by Ron Leshem and Daphna Levin from HOT, Euphoria follows a group of high school students in the town of East Highland, including Zendaya's 17-year-old drug addict Rue, through their experiences of identity, trauma, drugs, family, friendships, love and sex.
Squid Game‘s Lee Jung-jae hit the jackpot at Monday’s Emmy Awards, winning Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his work in Netflix’s South Korean smash. Jung-jae makes history as the first actor in a non-English series to win in the category.
The actor prevailed over fellow nominees Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul), Jason Bateman (Ozark), Jeremy Strong (Succession), Adam Scott (Severance) and Brian Cox (Succession).
In TVLine’s Dream Emmy blurb for Jung-jae, we wrote, “It speaks volumes about Lee’s work that those braving Netflix’s South Korean survival drama come to give a fig about Seong Gi-hun, a sad-sack chauffeur whose aptitude as a divorced dad is only dwarfed by his ability to hold onto a buck. Gi-hun is the king of bad choices. Yet once he is pulled into the titular and deadly spectacle, a greater survival instinct starts kicking in and Lee compels us to track his character’s evolution, as well as his distinct dynamics with onetime chum Sang-woo, the quietly savvy Sae-byeok, the gangster Deok-su and, most intricately, Il-nam aka Old Man.”
In a TVLine poll ahead of Monday’s primetime ceremony, in which we asked readers’ which nominees they would most like to see win, Jung-jae placed third behind Odenkirk and Bateman.
Jung-jae recently landed the male lead in The Acolyte, Disney+’s upcoming Star Wars series.
