Baby Reindeer's Richard Gadd Thanks His Parents — and Fans Out Over Jon Hamm — at Emmys 2024

Mar. 15, 2025

Richard Gadd at 2024 Emmys.Photo:ABC

ABC

The men in the outstanding actor in a limited series or movie category took the lead in a major way, and it paid off at the 76th annualEmmy Awards!

Gadd’s fellow outstanding actor nomineeMatt Bomerwent back in time inFellow TravelersandJon Hammheaded to North Dakota forFargo. Meanwhile,Tom HollanderandAndrew Scottput their own twists on pop culture mainstays inFeud: Capote vs. The SwansandRipley,respectively.

Gadd couldn’t believe he beat out Hamm, 53, in particular for the award.

“Ah, you’re all crazy, honestly,” Gadd said when he took the stage on Sept. 15. “Thank you. Thank you so much, honestly. I wasn’t expecting this one at all and I didn’t prepare. I mean, this is not Jon Hamm. I’m your biggest fan! And I told you for ages last night over and over again. But, but like this is nothing in the world.”

The Scottish actor also gave some love to his parents in his acceptance speech.

Ed Miller/Netflix

Though Gadd tried to protect the identity of his stalker,a Scottish lawyer named Fiona Harveycame forward after the series became an international hit and claimed to be the woman who inspired Martha. Harvey ended up suingNetflix for $170 million, alleging that the show made it easy for viewers to identify her and ruin her livelihood.

Gadd toldThe Hollywood Reporterthat he cast himself to tell his own story because “it wasthe right artistic choice.”

Matt Bomer in ‘Fellow Travelers’.Ben Mark Holzberg/SHOWTIME

Ben Mark Holzberg/SHOWTIME

InFellow Travelers, Bomer, 46, plays a State Department official hiding his sexuality who enters a decades-long relationship with another man (Jonathan Bailey)beginning in the 1950s. The eight-episode Showtime series, based on Thomas Mallon’s 2008 novel,served as a passion projectfor Bomer and he told PEOPLE he wondered for years “whether or not it would actually come to fruition.”

“When I was nominated, I was so grateful and happy, obviously, but I was also mostly just grateful that a show likeFellow Travelerscould exist in the world today, because we’ve all been around at a time when it couldn’t, and we could be on the precipice of a time when it couldn’t again,” Bomer said. “So I’m just really thankful that we were able to get the show made.”

Bailey, 36, also received an Emmy nomination for hisFellow Travelersrole.

Jon Hamm in ‘Fargo’ season 5.Michelle Faye/FX

Michelle Faye/FX

Hamm joined the cast ofFargoseason 5 as Roy Tillman, a devious sheriff and rancher preacher in rural North Dakota. The St. Louis native, who also picked up a supporting actor in a drama nomination for his role inThe Morning Showseason 3, enjoyed getting back to his Midwestern roots in the FX series.

Tom Hollander in ‘Feud: Capote vs. The Swans’.Pari Dukovic/FX

Pari Dukovic/FX

Hollander, 57, channeledTruman Capotein FX’sFeud: Capote vs. The Swans, which tells the story of Capote’s falling out with Manhattan’s top socialites after he published “La Côte Basque, 1965,” a chapter from his bookAnswered Prayersthat aired out the secrets of the woman he referred to as “swans.”

Ryan Murphy’sCapote vs. The Swans, also starringCalista Flockhart,Demi Moore,Molly Ringwald,Chloë SevignyandNaomi Watts, pulled from Laurence Leamer’s bookCapote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era, which Hollander read to prep for the role.

“For me as a British person coming in to do this, every day I was learning things about America that I didn’t know, even down to the children’s programs that people listened to learn how to spell. It was such an intense thing,” Hollander told PEOPLE. “Even learning about the individual actors that I was working with, because all of them are legendary, all these amazing women and their own places in the recent history of America and their own experience of it. It was a very rich experience for me.”

Andrew Scott in ‘Ripley’.Netflix

Netflix

Similar to Hollander playing someone who has been previously portrayed on screen, Scott, 47, brought Tom Ripley fromPatricia Highsmith’s 1955 novelThe Talented Mr. Ripleyto life inRipley25 years afterMatt Damondid so on the big screen.

The Netflix limited series follows Tom’s travels through Italy after a wealthy industrialist hires him to head to Europe to convince the man’s dilettante son, Dickie Greenleaf (Johnny Flynn), to come back home to the U.S. The job introduces Tom to a life of deceit, fraud and murder.

Despite being a seemingly unlikable character, “I found an enormous amount to like,” Scott toldVarietyof Tom. “There’s something about that character that, I think, a lot of people see themselves in. And I think it’s to do with being an outsider.”

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