Emmys: Niecy Nash-Betts Wins Best Supporting Actress in Limited Series for Dahmer
This should take the sting out of The Rookie: Feds‘ cancellation: Niecy Nash-Betts just snagged her first Primetime Emmy.
The veteran performer was awarded Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series at Monday’s 75th annual Emmy ceremony for her work in Netflix‘s Dahmer. (Nash-Betts won a Daytime Emmy in 2010 for her work in Style Network’s Clean House.)
Nash-Betts prevailed over a field that included fellow nominees Annaleigh Ashford (Welcome to Chippendales), Maria Bello (BEEF), Claire Danes (Fleishman Is in Trouble), Juliette Lewis (Welcome to Chippendales), Camila Morrone (Daisy Jones & The Six) and Merritt Wever (Tiny Beautiful Things).
“I’m a winner, baby!” Nash-Betts declared from the stage. “Thank you Ryan Murphy for seeing me. Evan Peters, I love you… And you know who I want to thank? I want to thank me, for believing in me and doing what they said I could not do. And I want to say to myself in front of all you beautiful people, ‘Go on girl with your bad self! You did that!'”
Dahmer (full title: Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story) starred Evan Peters as the infamous serial killer, who murdered and mutilated 17 men in Wisconsin between 1978 and 1991. Nash-Betts played suspicious neighbor Glenda.
The series — which dropped on Netflix in Sept. 2022 — aimed to shine a light on Dahmer’s victims as well as the law enforcement blunders that let him go on killing for so long.
The 10-episode thriller topped the streaming charts while also drawing significant backlash from the families of Dahmer’s victims. Exec producer Ryan Murphy pushed back on the criticism, saying: “What are the rules now? Should we never do a movie about a tyrant?”
That was the most sincere, happy acceptance speech! I’m so happy for her.
That was a speech for the ages!
Always good to see a beloved veteran get acknowledged with an award.