“Abbott Elementary” creator and star Quinta Brunson is an early favorite for a comedy lead actress Emmy -- and potentially for writing as well.
“Abbott Elementary” creator and star Quinta Brunson is an early favorite for a comedy lead actress Emmy — continuing her remarkable awards roll during the last year.years since “The Jeffersons” star Isabel Sanford became the first and only Black performer to win for lead actress in a comedy series, a category in which women of color have been egregiously overlooked.
just the second Black woman to do so, after Lena Waithe won in 2017 for HBO’s “Master of None.”Since then, Brunson has won a Golden Globe, NAACP Image Award, and Independent Spirit Award for lead actress, among many other honors, including a Screen Actors Guild ensemble award and WGA and PGA nominations.Brunson could become the fourth comedy series lead actress winner to also have received a writing Emmy, after Tina Fey , Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Catherine O’Hara .
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