Owen Cooper resides a teenage dream.
On Sunday, the 15-year-old grew to become the youngest performer to win an Emmy for excellent supporting actor in a restricted collection or TV film, due to his critically acclaimed efficiency as a troubled teen in “Adolescence.”
He joined the ranks of those different younger performers who’ve additionally made history:
Zal received the Emmy for excellent supporting actress in a restricted collection or particular in 1984 for her efficiency in “Something About Amelia.”
She was 14 at the time and stays the youngest Emmy winner ever.
Zal performed teen Amelia Bennett in the TV film, which revolved round the trauma of a younger girl who’s molested by her father.
Ted Danson and Glenn Close starred as her mother and father.
Jacoby was 16 in 1973 when he received for excellent supporting actor in a drama for his portrayal as Nick Salter in the tv film, “That Certain Summer.”
It starred Hal Holbrook as a father who reveals to his son that he’s homosexual. The made for tv movie was groundbreaking at the time and is extensively considered as certainly one of the first nuanced portrayals of a homosexual mother or father on TV.
That identical 12 months, 17-year-old British actor Anthony Murphy received the Emmy for excellent single efficiency by an actor in a number one function for “Tom Brown’s Schooldays,” which was a Masterpiece Theater manufacturing.
The miniseries is an adaptation of the 1857 Thomas Hughes novel of the identical title. Murphy portrayed the title character who’s bullied at college
“Family” was a well-liked ABC collection in the Seventies which centered on the lives of an higher center class household dwelling in Pasadena, California.
One of its youngest stars, McNichol, was 15 when she received an Emmy for excellent efficiency by a supporting actress in 1977.
She performed daughter, Letitia “Buddy” Lawrence, on the collection.
The emotionally charged Netflix miniseries “When They See Us” dramatized the case of the “Central Park 5,” who had been 5 Black and Latino youngsters that had been wrongfully convicted after a white feminine jogger was brutally attacked in Central Park in 1989.
Jerome wowed viewers and critics alike for his portrayal as certainly one of the teenagers, Korey Wise. The actor was 21 when he grew to become the youngest actor, and first Afro-Latino, to win the excellent lead actor in a restricted collection or film Emmy in 2019.
In 2020, Zendaya grew to become the youngest performer to ever win for excellent lead actress in a drama collection for her function as troubled teen Ruby “Rue” Bennett in HBO’s “Euphoria.”
She was 24 at the time and repeated the win in the identical class for the identical function two years later.