WARRINGTON youngster Owen Cooper, star of British TV drama Adolescence, has made history after becoming the youngest male to win an outstanding supporting actor Emmy.
Cooper, aged 15, played Jamie Miller in the highly acclaimed series, which cleaned up in its categories, including awards for his co-stars Stephen Graham and Erin Doherty, and director Philip Barantini.
Adolescence, which dominated Netflix’s most-watched list earlier this year, centres on the story of a 13-year-old boy arrested for the murder of a classmate. It was widely praised not just for its subject matter but also its technical brilliance, with each episode shot in one continuous take.
Cooper, who was just 14 at the time of filming and had never acted before, saw off competition from Javier Bardem (Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story), Peter Sarsgaard (Presumed Innocent) and his own
He said in his acceptance speech that he was “nothing three years ago”.
“It’s just so surreal. Honestly, when I started these drama classes a couple of years back, I didn’t expect to be even in the United States, never mind here,” he told the audience in LA.
“So I think tonight proves that if you listen and you focus and you step out of your comfort zone, you can achieve anything in life.”
Based in America, Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the television industry.
