Ayo Edebiri Accepts Emmy For Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series
2024 has been the year of Ayo Edebiri thus far as she’s already scored a Golden Globe, Critic’s Choice Award, and now an Emmy. At the 75th annual show, the Boston-born star accepted Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Sydney Adamu in Hulu’s The Bear.
Presented by Christina Applegate, Edebiri beamed as the Married With Children star demanded: “Get your a** up here, Ayo!” The 28-year-old handed off her purse to Carson Daly before making her way to the stage to collect her win.
Wearing a beautiful leather Louis Vuitton gown, she jokingly started: “Hi, I have 43 seconds. Okay?”
“I’m so incredibly grateful for this for so many reasons but the main one — this is a show about family and found family and real family — and my parents are here tonight,” she continued. “I’m making them sit kind of far away from me because I’m a bad kid, but I love you guys so much. Thank you so much for loving me and letting me feel beautiful and Black and proud of all of that. I just love you so much.”
She added, “Probably not like a dream to immigrate to this country and have your child be like, ‘I want to do improv,’ but you’re real ones, thank you so much for this, it means the world. Thank you.”
The first-time Emmy winner not only beat out her deserving peers: Sheryl Lee Ralph of Abbott Elementary, Hannah Waddingham from Ted Lasso’s, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s Alex Borstein — but also made history as the third Black woman to win in this particular category.
Edebiri’s historic win follows Jackée Harry’s for the hit show 227 in 1987, and Lee Ralph’s for Abbott Elementary in 2022.
Take a look at Ayo Edebiri give her comedic acceptance speech above.
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