Maya Rudolph gets career Emmy No. 6, Angela Basset wins her 1st at Creative Arts Emmys
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Maya Rudolph won her sixth career Emmy on Saturday night, taking the trophy for best character voice-over for her work on 'Big Mouth' at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards, while Angela Bassett won her first for her narration of the National Geographic show 'Queens.'
Maya Rudolph won her sixth career Emmy on Saturday night, taking the trophy for best character voice-over for her work on “Big Mouth" at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards, while Angela Bassett won her first for her narration of the National Geographic show “Queens.”
The former and future “Saturday Night Live" star Rudolph is up for three more Emmys. Her voice-over work as the Hormone Monstress on the Netflix animated show “Big Mouth” has earned her four of her Emmys.
“I’m really proud to be a part of this show,” she said. “It humanizes being human.”
She got emotional when as she talked about the privilege that she gets to do what she loves in her life.
“It’s making me cry because I’m very menopausal,” Rudolph said.
She won on the first of the two-night Creative Arts Emmys, which honor behind-the-scenes artistic and technical achievement in television and are a precursor to the main Emmys ceremony, hosted by Dan and Eugene Levy, that will air at 8 p.m. EST Sept. 15 on ABC.
Bassett appeared to collect her trophy for best narrator, a category that is usually star studded but where the winner, like Barack Obama last year, rarely shows
