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When the Emmy nominations were announced Tuesday, Black performers dominated the category for lead actor in a drama series for the first time.
Once defined by white actors playing compelling but deeply flawed antiheroes think Bryan Cranston as Walter White in “Breaking Bad,” Jon Hamm as Don Draper in “Mad Men” or James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano in “The Sopranos” the field this year included four Black actors playing an array of roles that defy easy generalization.
This year’s field includes two previous winners: Billy Porter, who stars as an HIV-positive ballroom emcee in the FX series “Pose,” and Sterling K. Brown, who plays a Black man adopted by a white family in the NBC tearjerker “This Is Us.” They were joined by Regé-Jean Page, who starred as a dashing aristocrat in Netflix’s dishy romance “Bridgerton” and became its breakout star, and Jonathan Majors, who played a sci-fi-loving Korean War veteran in HBO’s horror series “Lovecraft
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