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Film & TV News Broadway Cleans Up at the 2025 Emmy Awards

This year's winners included several stage faces.

Alan Cumming, Jean Smart, and Jeff Hiller

All eyes were on TV screens September 14 as the 2025 Emmy Awards were held in Los Angeles, but theatre fans saw a lot of familiar faces accepting accolades.

Jean Smart, seen earlier this season on Broadway in Call Me Izzy, won her seventh career Emmy in the Best Actress in a Comedy Series category for her work on Hacks. The win marks the fourth time Smart has taken the category, all since 2021 and all for her portrayal of Deborah Vance on the HBO Max series. Also winning a top acting category was Once original Broadway cast member Cristin Milioti, taking Best Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for her work on The Penguin.

In the supporting categories, the Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series went to stage vet Jeff Hiller (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson) for his work on Somebody Somewhere. The category was unusually filled with Broadway personalities, with both Michael Urie and Colman Domingo also up for the honor. Two-time Tony winner Bryan Cranston also took the Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series category, for his wild performance as an over-drugged film executive in The Studio.

Tony winner Alan Cumming took home two Emmys at the September 14 ceremony, winning Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality Competition Program for The Traitors. That series also took Outstanding Reality Competition Program, with Cumming (also a producer of the series) accepting the award for the producing team.

Also going home with a win was Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and Stranger Things: The First Shadow playwright Jack Thorne, who won Best Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie alongside co-writer Stephen Graham for their work on Adolescence.

Find a full list of this year's winners at TelevisionAcademy.com.

 
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