Jodie Foster Wins First-Ever Emmy forTrue DetectiveRole: 'An Incredibly Emotional Moment for Me'

Mar. 15, 2025

Jodie Foster accepts her first Emmy at the 2024 ceremony.Photo:Leon Bennett/WireImage

Leon Bennett/WireImage

Outstanding doesn’t even begin to describe the winner of outstanding actress in a limited series or movie at the 76th annualEmmy Awards!

Jodie Fosterwon her first-ever Emmy Award on Sunday, Sept. 15, taking home the prize for her role inTrue Detective: Night Country.

It was an award that came after four previous nominations. “This is an incredibly emotional moment for me,” she said, calling the HBO series, “a magical experience” and thanking Issa López, who created the fourth season of the anthology series.

InTrue Detective: North Country, Foster played Liz Danvers — a police chief in Alaska tasked with solving the mystery of eight men who disappeared at a research station.

Jodie Foster at the 2024 Emmy Awards.Frazer Harrison/Getty

Frazer Harrison/Getty

Foster’s win puts herhalfway to EGOT. She already two Oscars, for her roles inThe AccusedandThe Silence of the Lambs.

Speaking her thanks, Foster sent love to the show’s “incredible, incredibly Icelandic crew” and to her cast, giving a special shout-out to her “partner in crime” Evangeline Navarro, who was also nominated Sunday night.

She went on to express gratitude to the Inupiaq and Inuit people of Northern Alaska. “They just told us their stories and they allowed us to listen, and that was just a blessing. It was love, love, love and when you feel that, something amazing happens. It’s deep and wonderful and it’s older than this place in this time,” Foster said. “That’s just the message, which is love and work equals art.”

Jodie Foster in ‘True Detective: Night Country’.Michele K. Short/HBO

Michele K. Short/HBO

Night Countrymarks the most-watchedTrue Detectiveseason. In February, HBO picked upTrue Detectivefor a fifth season.

Foster, 61, previously described Liz as “kind of awful” and “damaged” in an interview onToday. “She’s grieving and doesn’t want to face demons that will involve suffering,” the actress said. “Like all of us, I think we don’t want to suffer. In her case, I guess that’s what the tough veneer is hiding; she just doesn’t want to fall apart.”

In her Emmys acceptance speech, Foster also gave her thanks to her sons, Charlie and Kit and thanked the “love of my life,” her wife, Alexandra Hedison.

Each had an outstanding year themselves.

“It was so nice for me to be able to do something that’s loving and sweet, and not always talking about the darkest things that are happening in the world,” Larson toldThe Hollywood ReporterofLessons in Chemistry, which also earned a nomination for outstanding limited or anthology series. “I think it’s a very sweet depiction of how to work with someone you love and the fact that their minds and their uniqueness and specificity and their love of science is what brings them together, I think, is very sweet.”

Juno Temple in ‘Fargo’ season 5.Michelle Faye/FX

Michelle Faye/FX

Temple, 35, traveled to the Midwest in season 5 of FX’sFargo, in which she plays fierce housewife Dorothy “Dot” Lyon, formerly known as Nadine Bump.

“I’m not sure characters like Dot Lyon come along very often,” Temple toldVogue. “She’s such an extraordinary little creature.”

Naomi Watts in ‘Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans’.Pari Dukovic/FX

Pari Dukovic/FX

Watts, 55, portrays New York City socialite Babe Paley inRyan Murphy’sFeud: Capote Vs. The Swans, which tells the story ofTruman Capote’s falling out with Babe and her friends — who he called “swans” — after he published a chapter of his bookAnswered Prayersthat aired out the women’s secrets. The story, titled “La Côte Basque, 1965,” most notably alleged that Babe’s husband Bill, the co-founder of CBS, cheated on her.

“It became such an undoing for Babe,” Watts, who also executive producedthe FX series, told PEOPLE. “She confided in him and felt that there was a trust [with Capote]. She felt seen and more connected to this human being than she’d ever connected to anyone, so it was something she couldn’t recover from.”

Babe and Truman had once been the best of friends, but their relationship never bounced back after what she perceived as a betrayal. “It’s easy for us to sit outside of it now and say, ‘Well, yes, if she’d just found a way to forgive, they could have carried on and had a much nicer time,’” Watts said. “I just don’t know what it would be truly like to live in that space. I feel like I would’ve wanted the friendship and miss the friendship too much that I would’ve been able to recover.”

Sofía Vergara in ‘Griselda’.Courtesy of Netflix

Courtesy of Netflix

Like Watts, Vergara, 52, took on playing a real person in Netflix’sGriselda.Vergara channeled Godmother of CocaineGriselda Blancoin the limited series that follows how Blanco built and ran a drug cartel in Miami in the 1970s and 1980s before being killed in her native Colombia in 2012.

Vergara told PEOPLE she spentthree hours a day in hair and makeupto transform into Blanco — and the commitment paid off.

“The people that have watched it now have been so responsive and they’ve been telling me how much they love it,” she said. “It’s really exciting to see how the people are reacting to it. I’m very proud of it.”

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