Donald Glover, co-creator and star of “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” could substantially bolster her current career total of 11 Emmy nominations.
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Glover could compete in four dramatic categories: actor, director, writer and producer of the show about a couple of spies. Glover already…
2017
… He received nominations in all of those comedy categories in a single year for his acclaimed FX show “Atlanta.” She won two that year for…
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…directing and acting. The first black directing winner in the comedy category. Glover was also the second black actor to win as a comedy lead, after Robert Guillaume (“Benson”), and the second director to win for directing himself since…
1977
… Alan Alda, from “M*A*S*H”.
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Only Carroll O'Connor has won Emmy Awards as a lead actor for both comedy (“All in the Family”) and drama (“In the Heat of the Night”). Glover could be the second.
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Glover's biggest win came in 2019, when, as musical artist Childish Gambino, he won Grammy Awards for song and record of the year, rap/sung performance and music video for his politically charged song “This Is America.”
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Writers Guild of America awards Glover has won: two for “Atlanta” and three for “30 Rock.” He wrote for Tina Fey's show when she was 20, before…
2009
…beginning a four-plus season run as jock-turned-nerd Troy Barnes on the beloved NBC comedy “Community.”
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“Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” co-star Maya Erskine, also seems a near lock for a nomination. The two most notable women in previous projects created by Glover, Zazie Beetz (“Atlanta”) and Dominique Fishback (“Swarm”), received nominations.
