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Niecy Nash-Betts is a winner, baby!
Nash-Betts is officially a Primetime Emmy winner for her role as Glenda Cleveland, the neighbor of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, in Netflix's Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. She won the award in the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie category.
“I’m a winner, baby! Thank you to the Most High for this divine moment! Thank you to Ryan Murphy for seeing me. Evan Peters (who played Dahmer), I love you. Netflix, every single person who voted for me thank you,” she said, before mentioning her wife, Jessica Betts. “And my better half who picked me up when I was gutted from this work, thank you.”
“And you know who I wanna thank?” she asked, “Me. For believing in me and doing what they said I could not do. And I wanna say to myself in front of all you beautiful people, ‘Come on girl, with your bad self, you did that!’”
Nash-Betts then shifted gears to talk about Black women who have been victims of police violence.
“Finally, I accept this award on behalf of every Black and brown woman who has fallen unheard, yet overpoliced,” she said to rapturous applause. “Like Glenda Clevelend. Like Sandra Bland. Like Breonna Taylor. As an artist, my job is to speak truth to power, and baby I’m gonna do it till the day I die. Momma, I won!”
This is Nash-Betts’ first Primetime Emmy win after three previous nominations. She also previously won a Daytime Emmy in 2010 for producing and starring in Clean House.
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Mey Rude is a journalist and cultural critic who has been covering queer news for a decade. The transgender, Latina lesbian lives in Los Angeles with her fiancée.
Mey Rude is a journalist and cultural critic who has been covering queer news for a decade. The transgender, Latina lesbian lives in Los Angeles with her fiancée.