Although to many of us he will always be Don Draper, Jon Hamm is a versatile actor who just received two Emmy nominations: for his sadistic sheriff in “Fargo” and his loquacious tech titan in “The Morning Show.”
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Hamm's acting Emmy nominations to date.
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Hamm has won once: as lead actor in the final season of “Mad Men” drama, in his…
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…nomination for his performance as the brilliant and complicated advertising executive Don Draper.
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Bryan Cranston, fellow AMC alum and fellow antihero actor for the ages, outperformed Hamm in four of those years for his performance as Walter White in “Breaking Bad.” But now…
2024
… Hamm is the Emmy veteran to beat in the race for best lead actor in a short-form/television movie, for his ferocious performance in “Fargo.”
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Receiving a second nomination, for best supporting actor in a drama for “The Morning Show,” meant that for Hamm it was just another Wednesday, as…
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…He has been nominated for two Emmys in a single year four times before: in 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2015, when he was nominated for “Mad Men” and as a guest star on the Tina Fey comedies “30 Rock” and “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.”
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For “30 Rock,” Hamm was nominated in 2009 and 2010 for playing the handsome but dimwitted Dr. Drew and in 2012 for playing two characters in a live episode: journalist David Brinkley and old-school sitcom character Abner, a role in blackface…
2020
…which was meant to critique Hollywood's racist past. Eight years later, the producers of “30 Rock” pulled the episode from broadcast and syndication over its use of blackface. But not from Emmy history.
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Hamm was nominated for his role as a cult leader and kidnapper in “Schmidt” (another entry in the annals of “there’s no way this would be made today”). The character shares many traits with Hamm’s “Fargo” sheriff, which means…
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…Either Fey was clairvoyant or someone from “Fargo” watches Netflix.
