
Owen Cooper Is Officially The Youngest Male Emmy Winner Ever
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The 15-year-old blew audiences away this year with his first starring role in Netflix's "Adolescence."
Owen Cooper just unlocked a new level of Emmys history.
On Sunday night, the 15-year-old “Adolescence” breakout star won the award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited/Anthology Series or TV Movie, making him the youngest male winner of any acting Emmy ever.
The British actor beat out the record previously held by Scott Jacoby, who was 16 when he won Best Supporting Actor in a Drama for 1972’s “That Certain Summer.”
Cooper went up against his co-star Ashley Walters in his category, as well as Javier Bardem (“Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story”), Rob Delaney (“Dying for Sex”), Peter Sarsgaard and Bill Camp (“Presumed Innocent”).
“Adolescence” marks Cooper’s first on-screen role. He played a 13-year-old student named Jamie Miller who was arrested for murdering his classmate. In the four-episode series, the allegations turn his family’s world upside down and force them to confront every parent’s worst nightmare.













