Actors Who Won Undeserved Emmys

Jennifer Aniston

None of the [italic]Will & Grace[/italic] cast deserved it either for that awful obnoxious mugging.

Jane Curtin is a wonderful comic actor.

How is Jane Curtin in any way "undeserving" and comparable to Zendaya?

James Spader totally earned his Emmy nominations and awards. As did Jane Curtain.

Who's Jane Curtain? Was she the star of that show [italic]Cait & Ally[/italic] with Susan Saint Jaymes?

Rightfully, OP, Zendaya tops this list.

Jane Curtin is a comic genius. The creators of "3rd Rock from the Sun" said they had to hire her when they were creating the show because they considered her the funniest straight woman in comedy since Margaret Dumont.

OP has the shittiest taste.

Poor OP getting dragged more than Zendaya.

oH REALLY OP ??? Why don't you ask if I deserved an Emmy ?

I actually think Zendaya was great in Euphoria.

The issue is that she won of Laura Linney.

Burt Reynolds didn’t deserve an Emmy for Evening Shade.

Er, OVER....

Vivian Vance

Dan Levy did not deserve a Best Supporting Actor Emmy last year. As a matter of fact, the only person from Schitt's Creek who deserved to win was Catherine O'Hara. Nonody else.

Hope Lange won back-to-back Emmys for her low-wattage performance in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. What was really outrageous is she beat Elizabeth Montgomery for Bewitched and Marlo Thomas for That Girl both times. Elizabeth and Marlo never won for their groundbreaking sitcoms.

R14 I was glad Annie won too.

Have people watched Euphoria? I believe Linney should have won too but Zendaya is excellent in it. It’s a complicated, real performance.

Even Missy acknowledges she may not be the most deserving...

Candice Bergen winning five Emmys for "Murphy Brown" was ludicrous.

R18, That moment never gets old.

No one mentions Helen Hunt winning the Emmy four years in a row

M

N&M

Darren Criss. There's a reason why he hasn't done anything notable since

Hope Lange was a better actress than Marlo Thomas

[quote] Patricia Arquette for 'Medium' in 2005. She even beat out DL fave Glenn!

Do you mean Academy Award Winner Patricia Arquette? Beat Academy Award Loser Glenn Close?

Patricia Arquette in Medium...

[quote] Have people watched Euphoria? I believe Linney should have won too but Zendaya is excellent in it. It’s a complicated, real performance.

Linney was head and shoulders above Z.

Z is hit or miss. Euphoria was more up her alley (easier to play characters which align with the persona of the actor) than her other performances, which have been poor.

Euphoria performance was not a stretch and in light of the nominees; the Emmy for it completely undeserved.

You think Zendaya's persona is a drug addicted loser who sleeps with trans girls in the shitty little town of Methville?

That's not what I get when I see her in other things. But maybe that's just me.

That was for R28...

I also think Laura Linney was the most deserving. But Zendaya was pretty damn good in her own right. I watched that show expecting to hate it (I just wanted to see McDreamy naked). But Z absolutely pulled me in with her performance.

[quote] You think Zendaya's persona is a drug addicted loser who sleeps with trans girls in the shitty little town of Methville?

Drama, R29/R30. Drama.

Yet Z was VERY close with Harvey Weinstein before Harvey’s denouement. Let’s just also say she has a great deal of fun with ingested substances at the Chateau Marmot - and other places (pre-pandemic).

So it’s all in the perspective. LA may not be Methville officially, but in a sense the Weinstein underworld is not so far removed from “Euphoria”.

Everything about Zendaya (black Karen) is overrated.

Kate McKinnon in 2017

Kate McKinnon is hysterical. But this is the datalounge so people will attack female performers while pretending someone like Darren "I'd be unemployed without Ryan Murphy" Criss is God's gift to the acting world

Helen Cunt

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

R33 I am over Kate McKinnon too.

Zendaya deserved her Emmy and she should have been Oscar nominated for Malcolm and Marie. She’s a terrific actor.

Hi Zendaya and Zendaya's publicist r37!!!

Julia Louis Dreyfus has basically given the exact same performance her entire career. She is massively overrated.

R38, nope, just not a typical DLer who can’t appreciate black artists. I love Regina King also.

Wow, R40, you're SO evolved!!

R41, it’s a pretty low bar here.

LOL r38. Regina King is PLENTY loved here. But nice try.

Oops meant for r39

[quote] Hi Zendaya and Zendaya's publicist [R37]

Haha.....so true, R38! [Oscar for Malcolm and Marie? You’ve GOT TO BE a publicist, R37....unbelievable. ETA: Or an AA supporter who supports preferentially via colour of skin only.🙁]

[quote] Julia Louis Dreyfus has basically given the exact same performance her entire career. She is massively overrated.

You’ve described what many (in LA ) are afraid to vocalize about the incredibly wealthy JLD, R39.

Rhea Perlman maybe deserved one Emmy for Cheers. Julia Duffy should have gotten one for Newhart but kept losing to Perlman.

I don’t think Lucille Ball deserved the ones she got in the sixties for The Lucy Show. She’s another one who blocked Elizabeth Montgomery from earning a deserved Emmy for Bewitched.

Ruth Gordon for Taxi. It was a guest star one episode, before they gave them for guest performances. She probably beat Katherine Helmond who never got one for Soap and should have.

R46, But, Katherine Helmond had that hot young husband to console her.

Marcia Cross should have won the year Felicity Huffman won Best Actress in a Comedy for 'Desperate Housewives.'

Doris Roberts and John Larroquette should be added to the list of actors with far too many Emmys.

I always wanted Katherine Helmond to win for Soap. Didn’t Catherine Damon win instead? Maybe that was the Golden Globe.

Cathryn Damon, Richard Mulligan, and Robert Guillaume were the only [italic]Soap[/italic] actors to get Emmys.

Was Billy Crystal even nominated?

[quote] I am over Kate McKinnon too.

McKinnon is talented, but overrated. Her impersonations of male politicians and other well known men just became creepy over time.

If there was a thread for "Actors Who Got Undeserved Emmy nominations", Leslie Jones would own that thread. She was one of the worst SNL cast members of all time, but managed to get Emmy nods for sketches where she mostly botched her lines or shouted her lines.

McKinnon reminds me of Molly Shannon. Funny, but lazy. When they find something that hits with the audience, they tend to repeat it, even if it doesn't fit for the character.

R53 I agree on Molly Shannon. But, she gave a good dramatic performance in the movie Other People. She should do more drama movies or TV shows.

Oh, agreed. She's actually a very good actress, something McKinnon is not.

r25 Marlo Thomas could act the pants off Hope Lange, whose sense of comedy was to smile wanly in every situation. Lange ruined the New Dick Van Dyke Show when she couldn't master the wifey role, which Mary Tyler Moore had done effortlessly. Lange had zero chemistry with her fellow actors, including the lovable Van Dyke.

Fun Fact: Hope Lange delivered one of the eulogies at Natalie Wood's funeral

Zendaya

Darren Criss

Jim Parsons

Julia Louis Dreyfus

[quote] Patricia Arquette for 'Medium' in 2005. She even beat out DL fave Glenn!

SJP deserved a win for an earlier season of SATC when she was actually acting.

Doris Roberts continuously winning over the likes of Kim Cattrall for her iconic work is obnoxious.

Helen Hunt should not have kept winning more than once. Calista Flockhart deserved a win for with of the first seasons of Ally McBeal.

Marcia Cross deserved a win for season 1 Bree on Desperate Housewives.

Jane Kaczmarek and Krakowski both deserved a win too.

[quote]What was really outrageous is she beat Elizabeth Montgomery for Bewitched and Marlo Thomas for That Girl both times. Elizabeth and Marlo never won for their groundbreaking sitcoms.

York and Moorehead deserved some wins as well. I am not sure York was even nominated. Moorehead did win for her guest star appearance on Wild Wild West. That show actually did have some good acting performances from a number of the guest villains.

Julia-L-D probably did not deserve all of her Emmys, but she is good. While she does specialize in the same sort of character, I thought there were some differences on how she played Christine on New Christine vs. Elaine on Seinfeld. Still need to catch VEEP, but is not on anything I stream right now.

Ever notice how the Oscars give more acting awards to children than the Emmys have?

Andrew Cuomo

It's an Outrage they never honoured Dame Angela Lansbury. Not EVEN for the Guest nom she got for deigning to play the mother of a sex attacker on Law and Order SVU!

OP, have you even watched an episode of Kate and Allie? Curtin was BRILLIANT in that show. It was really the role of a lifetime for her, because the character suited her comic gifts so well, she moved past just being the 'queen of deadpan' and the 'straight woman' which is usually her bread and butter and created a wonderfully rich, hilarious character.

I agree with the posters upthread about Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Terrible, mannered one-note actress with annoying gestures and facial expressions.

Sherman Helmsley was brilliant as George Jefferson, on par with Carroll O’Connor as Archie Bunker. Yet, in 11 seasons of THE JEFFERSONS he was nominated once (and lost to John Ritter for THREE’S COMPANY - it was the final year of his show and John had never won).

Yet, Isabel Sanford got 7 nominations for her role, winning once.

One of my favourite clips...

R61 I know that Dick York was nominated at least once. I agree he should have gotten an Emmy. His son and fans keep trying to get him a star on the walk of fame, but I doubt that will happen at this point.

[quote] I agree with the posters upthread about Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Terrible, mannered one-note actress with annoying gestures and facial expressions.

^^THIS

Jessica Lange

Meryl Streep

Ray Romano

Clovis Leachman

Susan Lucci

Robin Wright

RuPaul Charles

Barbaric Streisand

Edie Falco

Peter Dinklage

Ellen DeGeneres

Sterling K Brown

Mr. Rogers

Emmys are so easy. I got one on one of my first jobs. Holocaust. I didn't even bother to go. I mean who cares? I got another one a few years ago just for narrating something.

They're a dime a dozen. Even G has 3.

Ms. Slezak won too many.

Michael Richards & Rip Torn were great on Seinfeld & Larry Sanders, but between them they stole—STOLE, I say—three Supporting Actor Emmys from David Hyde Pierce during the best seasons of Frasier.

You and your love of wet vaginas r73. Why would defend that effeminate gay over two real men?

Rupaul, zendaya, lady gaga

Does John Oliver have to win every year?

R74 I think Frasier is the greatest sitcom of all time. Hyde Pierce as Niles is genius. He’s perfect.

On the other hand, Rip Torn *did* once get into a knife fight with Dennis Hopper…

Hyde David Pierce has been rewarded plenty. Can he play anyone other than Niles? No.

Marcia Cross could have won but it’s Felicity Huffman who is the good actress, soo..

Felicity Huffman was robbed for not winning for her role as the school principal in American Crime. I think that Lange won that year for another of her freak show roles.

this years Emmys will be the lowest rated ever

[quote]Michael Richards & Rip Torn were great on Seinfeld & Larry Sanders, but between them they stole—STOLE, I say—three Supporting Actor Emmys from David Hyde Pierce during the best seasons of Frasier.

People have been mentioning JLD. but Richards was the one who I thought became really one-note and tiresome. David Hyde Pierce was definitely robbed.

Most likely an unpopular opinion, while Lucci had a number of undeserved nominations, she was actually pretty good in the episode where she won and don't have a problem with her winning that year.

Zendaya was sensational in Euphoria, is going to have a huge career and fully deserved her Emmy, Klan Granny OP.

This is 100% a Klan Granny thread. You old racists are fucking exhausting. F&Fed and blocked. So tired of this stupid shit and you’re lame ass sock puppet accounts.

R82, In 2007, David Hyde Pierce STOLE the Tony Award from Raúl Esparza.

Actors who win an Emmy shouldn't be eligible for the same role again. I don't recall anyone who deserved two Emmys or more for the same role. Have Tyne Daly or Sharon Gless miraculously updated their acting abilities while playing CAGNEY & LACEY over seven years? I liked them but I don't think so. This year HAMILTON and SNL performers will win over actors who had to work much more to create characters. Or a 90-second appearance by Don Cheadle could win in the guest-star category over the heartbreaking NPH in IT'S A SIN who was robbed of a nomination.

The woman who played the mother in “It’s a Sin” should’ve been nominated. I loved her in “Ashes to Ashes” several years ago.

Sarah Silverman won an Emmy for her guest appearance on Jimmy Kimmel where she sang I'm Fucking Matt Damon, a song any 5 yr old could have written. Awards are meaningless.

Regina King