Jean Smart completes her 'Hacks' Sweep with 5th straight Emmy win
- On Monday, actress Jean Smart won the Emmy for best lead actress in a comedy series for her fifth season playing Deborah Vance on HBO Max's "Hacks."
- Smart's victory marks a historic achievement: she became the first woman to win an acting Emmy for every season of a single show, sweeping all five seasons of the HBO comedy.
- The final season of "Hacks" set a record with 24 nominations, the most for any comedy in a single year. Smart defeated nominees including actress Lisa Kudrow and actress Elle Fanning.
- With this win, Smart now holds eight career Emmys, tying actress Cloris Leachman and actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus for the most acting wins by any performer in television history.
- Previously, the only actor to sweep every season of their show was Bill Cosby, who won for all three seasons of "I Spy" between 1966 and 1968.
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cedarnews.netAmerican actress Jean Smart made history at the Emmy Awards presented last night. The 75-year-old actress is the first woman to win an Emmy for her role in the same television series for five consecutive years. Smart plays the role of older comedian Deborah Vance in the comedy series Hacks, who is forced by her agent to work with a young writer. The HBO comedy series ran for five seasons. It came to an end in late May. It is Smart's eighth Emmy…
Jean Smart Ties Emmy Acting
Jean Smart won the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy for Hacks' final season, completing a sweep that secures her eight Emmys and ties the all-time record. The achievement crowns a long-running, acclaimed run for Smart, with the season-long performance now recognized as part of a historic career milestone. · 38 sources across the spectrum on IJR News.
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