Emmy diversity gets a boost from Ricky Martin, Issa Rae
LOS ANGELES — Sterling K. Brown and Donald Glover aren’t such Emmy outliers this year.
More than a third of the 101 acting nominations for the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards went to ethnic minorities, according to an analysis by The Associated Press. That’s up from a quarter of the field last year, when Brown (“This Is Us”) and Glover (“Atlanta”) won top acting awards.
Both men are nominated again, along with noteworthy first-timers including Latino actors Ricky Martin and Penelope Cruz for “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story,” Tiffany Haddish for “Saturday Night Live,” Issa Rae for “Insecure” and John Legend for “Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert.” Darren Criss, who is of Filipino descent, was also nominated for “American Crime Story.”
Sandra Oh, the Canadian-born actress of “Grey’s Anatomy” fame, became the first nominee of Asian descent in the leading drama actress category. Oh, who earned five supporting actress bids for “Grey’s,” has earned critical praise for her role as a spy hunting a female assassin in BBC America’s “Killing Eve.”