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Monday, June 9, 2025

Trinidad-born Mishael Morgan is 1st Black lead winner at Daytime Emmys

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Mishael Morgan accepts the award for outstanding performance by a lead actress in a drama series for her role in "The Young and the Restless" at the 49th annual Daytime Emmy Awards on Friday, June 24, 2022, in Pasadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Mishael Morgan accepts the award for outstanding performance by a lead actress in a drama series for her role in "The Young and the Restless" at the 49th annual Daytime Emmy Awards on Friday, June 24, 2022, in Pasadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

 

By BETH HAR­RIS- As­so­ci­at­ed Press

 

PASADE­NA, Calif. (AP) — Mishael Mor­gan of “The Young and the Rest­less” won as lead dra­ma ac­tress, be­com­ing the first Black ac­tor to win in a lead cat­e­go­ry at the Day­time Em­mys on Fri­day night.

Mor­gan was pre­vi­ous­ly nom­i­nat­ed in the sup­port­ing cat­e­go­ry. The 35-year-old from Trinidad and To­ba­go plays Aman­da Sin­clair on the CBS soap.

“I am be­ing hon­ored re­gard­less of the col­or of my skin, re­gard­less of my pass­port, for be­ing the best at what I do,” Mor­gan said. “Now there are lit­tle girls all around the world and they’re see­ing an­oth­er step for­ward and they know that no mat­ter their in­dus­try, no mat­ter their vo­ca­tion, no mat­ter what, they can strive to be the best at what they do. Not on­ly can they achieve it, but they will be cel­e­brat­ed.”

John Mc­Cook earned lead ac­tor hon­ors for his role as Er­ic For­rester on CBS’ “The Bold and the Beau­ti­ful.” It was the 78-year-old’s first win in four nom­i­na­tions.

“I am so glad to get this Em­my, any Em­my ac­tu­al­ly,” he said.

“Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal” won day­time dra­ma hon­ors, the ABC show’s 15th tri­umph in the cat­e­go­ry. It was the fifth tro­phy earned by the show Fri­day.

Mor­gan is in her sec­ond stint on “Y&R.” She first joined the soap in 2013 and stayed un­til 2018. She re­turned in 2019 as a dif­fer­ent char­ac­ter.

“I am so im­mense­ly proud of our gen­er­a­tion. We are break­ing glass ceil­ings left, right and cen­ter, and I am so hon­ored to be a ves­sel and ex­pe­ri­ence this mo­ment,” she said. “It’s be­cause of every­body who is out there to­day who is prov­ing to the world that we can and we will do this thing called equal­i­ty and uni­ty to­geth­er.”

Three “Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal” stars won hon­ors and the soap’s di­rect­ing team won for the third con­sec­u­tive year.

Kel­ly Thiebaud was cho­sen sup­port­ing ac­tress for play­ing Dr. Britt West­bourne and Jeff Kober scored as sup­port­ing ac­tor for his role as Cyrus Re­nault. Nicholas Chavez won as younger per­former in the soap.

“Wow!” Chavez said. “Just a lit­tle over a year ago I was sell­ing cars in a lit­tle beach town in Flori­da. I al­ways had the love and sup­port of my fam­i­ly, but none of us had ever dreamed I’d be up on this stage.”

A glee­ful Thiebaud won on her first nom­i­na­tion.

“I can­not be­lieve this. I am so shocked,” she said. “My broth­er, when I first start­ed act­ing, he fol­lowed my work and he’s like, ’You’re not that good.′ So thank you for giv­ing me some­thing to rub in his face.”

Kober is known for his ex­ten­sive film and prime­time work on such shows as “Sons of An­ar­chy” and “The Walk­ing Dead.”

“Wow, thank you for mak­ing me feel so wel­come in day­time. What a trip,” he said. “I love what we get to do for a liv­ing, it’s play.”

NBC’s “Days of Our Lives” won for writ­ing team.

Kel­ly Clark­son earned her third con­sec­u­tive tro­phy as en­ter­tain­ment talk show host. Her epony­mous show al­so won its sec­ond straight tro­phy for en­ter­tain­ment talk show. The singer is spend­ing the sum­mer with her chil­dren and didn’t at­tend.

Tam­ron Hall picked up her sec­ond straight tro­phy as in­for­ma­tive talk show host.

Steve Har­vey of “Fam­i­ly Feud” won as game show host.

“Jeop­ardy!” won game show hon­ors.

“‘Jeop­ardy!’ is a show about facts,” ex­ec­u­tive pro­duc­er Michael Davies said. “Facts, with every­thing go­ing on in the world, are more im­por­tant than ever. ‘Jeop­ardy!’ is the last place where every­one agrees about facts.”

Day­time doyenne Su­san Luc­ci, who starred on “All My Chil­dren” dur­ing the show’s en­tire 41-year net­work run, re­ceived a stand­ing ova­tion. She in­tro­duced the In Memo­ri­am seg­ment, which in­clud­ed a pho­to of her hus­band, Hel­met Hu­ber, who died in March. Michael Bolton crooned his hit “How Am I Sup­posed to Live With­out You.”

John Anis­ton of “Days of Our Lives” was hon­ored with a life­time achieve­ment award for his 37-year role as Vic­tor Kiri­akis. The 88-year-old ac­tor wasn’t present.

He was in­tro­duced via video by his daugh­ter, Jen­nifer Anis­ton, who said, “His ca­reer is lit­er­al­ly the de­f­i­n­i­tion of life­time achieve­ment.” She not­ed he be­gan act­ing in 1962 in prime­time and al­so ap­peared in such de­funct soaps as “Love of Life” and “Search For To­mor­row” be­fore join­ing “Days” in 1985.

Af­ter two years of pre-taped pre­sen­ta­tions be­cause of the coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic, day­time re­turned to hon­or­ing its own at night­time with an in-per­son cer­e­mo­ny. In 2020, the show went vir­tu­al for the first time and last year the au­di­ence was lim­it­ed.

Still, the specter of COVID-19 was felt.

Two nom­i­nees from “The Young and the Rest­less” were forced to bow out. Lead ac­tor nom­i­nee Ja­son Thomp­son, who plays Bil­ly Ab­bott, and sup­port­ing ac­tress nom­i­nee Melis­sa Or­d­way, who plays Ab­by New­man, both said on so­cial me­dia they had test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19 and would miss the show.

Kevin Fra­zier and Nis­chelle Turn­er of “En­ter­tain­ment Tonight” co-host­ed the 49th an­nu­al awards held at the Pasade­na Con­ven­tion Cen­ter, where many of the nom­i­nees sat at so­cial­ly dis­tanced cock­tail ta­bles and oth­ers sat in rows next to each oth­er.

Fra­zier and Turn­er found them­selves ac­cept­ing a Day­time Em­my when “ET” won for en­ter­tain­ment news se­ries.

Turn­er opened the show with a ref­er­ence to the Supreme Court over­turn­ing women’s con­sti­tu­tion­al pro­tec­tions for abor­tions ear­li­er Fri­day. She em­phat­i­cal­ly told Fra­zier it was “her choice” to wear her blue gown. The crowd cheered and some women stood up.

Sup­port­ing ac­tress nom­i­nee Nan­cy Lee Grahn of “Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal” walked the in­door red car­pet wear­ing ref­er­ences to the day’s news. She had a tem­po­rary tat­too read­ing “re­pro­duc­tive free­dom” on her chest, the word “choice” on her disc ear­rings and she car­ried a black purse with “ban off our bod­ies” spelled out in rhine­stones.

“I dare not go through this process with­out speak­ing out about the dev­as­ta­tion that I have for what hap­pened to­day and what a dark day it is for women in this coun­try,” the 66-year-old ac­tor said. “We’re not go­ing to al­low this, we’re not go­ing to stand for it.”

 

 


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