Owen Cooper of Adolescence It has become the youngest actor to win an action award in the delivery of the Emmys Awards. The 15 -year -old, who stars in the traumatic limited drama of Netflixwon the Best Distributed Actor award in a limited series or anthology or television film.
He thanked the cast and the Netflix series team, as well as his parents, after receiving great applause.
“Honestly, when I started these theater classes a couple of years ago, I did not expect to be in the United States, much less here, but I think that tonight shows that if you listen, you concentrate and leave your comfort zone, you can achieve anything in life. It was nothing three years ago and here I am now. Who cares if you are ashamed? Everything is possible,” he said.
Cooper broke the record of Michael A. Goorjianwho was 23 when he became the youngest winner in the category in 1994. He also broke the record of Scott Jacoby as the youngest actor to win in the categories of performance of the Primetime Emmy. Jacoby was 16 when he won the award for Best Actor of Delivery in a dramatic series for The Certain Summer in 1973.
Cooper beat several veterans established to win the prize, including Javier Bardem of Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, Bill Camp and Peter Sarsgaard of Presume Innocent and Rob Delaney of Dying for sexas well as its own co -star of adolescence, Ashley Walters.
What is even more noticeable than Cooper’s age is the fact that he had never worked as an actor before auditioning for adolescence, in which he plays Jamie Miller, 13, who is arrested under suspicion of murder.
Adolescence’s success in Netflix
In June, the series, starring Stephen Grahamlike Miller’s father, became the second most watched English series in Netflix, surpassing the fourth season of Stranger Things And only behind Merlina with more than 141 million visits in its first three months.
The series was co-created by Graham and Jack Thorne and was directed by Philip Barantiniwho won praise by his unique taking method.
He tells the story of the Miller schoolboy, who is arrested after the murder of his classmate Katie Leonard. However, the series is not a police novel, something that is clarified from the beginning of the first episode, but raises the question: why? It is a question that your family is raised – their father, Eddie Miller, played by Graham, his mother, commanded, played by Christine Tremarcoand his sister Lisa, played by Amélie Pease-, like the Inspective Detective Luke Bascombe, played by Ashley Waltersand others, such as the therapist Briony Ariston, played by Erin Doherty.
Source: Ambito
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