From Mj Rodriguez to ‘Ted Lasso,’ 2021 Looks to Be a Banner Year for Breaking Emmy Records
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variety.comClayton Davis With diversity among key nominees at the 73rd annual Primetime Emmy Awards up 17% year over year, there is great potential for even more records to be shattered come the Sept.
19 ceremony.Four of the six slots for lead drama actor went to Black actors, two of whom are former winners — Sterling K. Brown (“This Is Us”) and Billy Porter (“Pose”).
If either of those two win, he would be only the second Black actor to repeat a victory in this category. (The previous was “I Spy’s” Bill Cosby, who won three times: 1966, 1967 and 1968.)In the Emmys’ 73-year history there have only been two people of color who won back-to-back acting trophies in the same category (and both were men).
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