Carrie Coon started her Wednesday with extreme fatigue from lack of sleep and a full house of visiting family when she learned about her first nomination for playing socialite Bertha Russell in HBO’s The Gilded Age.
But it wasn’t until she learned that her husband Tracy Letts received a nomination for playing Jack McKinney on HBO’s Winning Time: The Rise Of The Lakers Dynasty did she actually start to cry.
The Gilded Age ended up earning six nominations — including one for Best Drama and another for Supporting Actress for Christine Baranski — but she was more giddy to be the one to inform her husband about his shout-out in the guest-starring actor category. “I sent a video to my husband and said, ‘Tracy, you have an Emmy nomination.
Oh my God,'” she tells Deadline. “I Immediately started to cry, and my family said, ‘you weren’t crying when you got a nomination, but you’re crying when Tracy gets a nomination.
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