Holland Taylor (‘The Morning Show’): How Emmy history could repeat itself for former ‘The Practice’ champ
“Overnight!” That’s what Holland Taylor infamously shouted 25 years ago when she won her first career Emmy Award in Best Drama Supporting Actress for her guest-starring role as judge Roberta Kittleson on “The Practice.” (Watch the Emmy flashback video below.)
Can the esteemed actress now claim an Emmy bookend for playing UBA board chair Cybil Reynolds on Apple TV+’s “The Morning Show”? She’s competing yet again in the Best Drama Supporting Actress race and, just like in 1999, she’s billed as a guest star as opposed to a series regular, so Emmy history could repeat itself.
Taylor has submitted the episode “White Noise” to Emmy judges for this 2024 contest, in which Cybil’s career hangs in the balance when one of her old racist emails resurfaces. Cybil agrees to a damage control interview on the A.M. news program with Black journalist Chris Hunter (Nicole Beharie), but it goes so poorly that Cybil’s fate is sealed and she leaves the company in disgrace.
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Incidentally, Taylor appeared in five out of 10 episodes for Season 3 of “The Morning Show,” which makes her ineligible to compete as a guest star due to the TV academy’s “50% rule.” Her six co-nominees in the Best Drama Supporting Actress race are Beharie, Christine Baranski (“The Gilded Age”), Elizabeth Debicki (“The Crown”), Greta Lee (“The Morning Show”), Lesley Manville (“The Crown”) and Karen Pittman (“The Morning Show”).
In 1999, Taylor appeared in six episodes of “The Practice’s” 23-episode third season, so it was a bit of a shocker at the time that she competed as a supporting actress at the Emmys as opposed to a guest star. But the gamble paid off, and Taylor was able to take down two of her full-time co-stars from the ABC legal series, Lara Flynn Boyle and Camryn Manheim, plus Kim Delaney from “NYPD Blue” and Nancy Marchand from “The Sopranos.”
Taylor earned a repeat bid one year later for “The Practice” as well as a guest nom for “The Lot.” She then received four non-consecutive Emmy mentions for her comedic turn in “Two and a Half Men” (2005, ’07, ’08, ’10) as the mother of Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer‘s characters. More recently, she contended for Ryan Murphy‘s limited series “Hollywood” (2020) on Netflix, which makes her current citation for “The Morning Show” her ninth overall. (Fun fact: Taylor’s girlfriend Sarah Paulson is also celebrating her ninth career Emmy nomination this year.)
Here’s the flashback video from 1999 in which Holland Taylor claims her Emmy Award:
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