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We’re taking a look at this year’s Emmy nominees and digging into their past work and credits that may have influenced their Emmy-nominated work this year.
Who’s going to win Best Limited Series/TV Movie Supporting Actor? This race has a clear frontrunner the wunderkind of the 2025 Emmy season Owen Cooper for Adolescence a win would make him one of the youngest Emmy winners is history at just 15. But this category loves a good plot twist—few predicted Lamorne Morris’s win for Fargo last year.
Javier Bardem
Nominated for: Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story
Past Emmy History: N/A
Previous Awards: Academy Award Bestr Supporting Actor for No Country for Old Men (2007)
Hidden Gems: Eat, Pray, Love
Bardem is the respected movie star in this category previously working with Ryan Murphy in Eat, Pray, Love (2010). Bardem, has mastered playing the charismatic villain that has a way of drawing viewers in winning an Oscar for No Country for Old Men (2007) and again in Skyfall (2012).
In Monsters, Bardem plays Jose Menendez—murder victim and child abuser. Bardem has already received a Golden Globe and SAG Award Nomination for his work on television. And should he walk away empty handed he will be in great company as his wife, Penelope Cruz also lost Best Limited Series Supporting Actress for her perfomance as Donatella Versace in American Crime Story: Versace (2018) which just so happens to be another Ryan Murphy Production.
Bill Camp
Nominated for: Presumed Innocent
Past Emmy History: Nominated for Best Limited Series/TV Movie Supporting Actor for The Night Of (2017)
Previous Awards: N/A
Hidden Gems: The Queen’s Gambit (2020)
Camp has over 85 credits to his name appearing in films; 12 Years a Slave (2013), Birdman (2014) and Vice (2018). But its Camp’s television credits where he’s really had the opportunity to shine appearing in The Night Of (2017), The Queen’s Gambit (2020), American Rust (2021) and in Zero Day, Sirens and Gilded Age this year.
Camp plays ousted prosecutor turned Gyllenhaal’s defense attorney in Presumed Innocent. Camp can next be seen in Huntington opposite Margot Robbie and Glen Powell.
Owen Cooper
Nominated for: Adolescence
Past Emmy History: N/A
Previous Awards: N/A
Hidden Gems: N/A
At just 15, this is Cooper’s first job playing the troubled suspected murderer in Adolescence. Cooper, is the series breakout star receiving a TCA Award Nomination and the praise of his fellow actors including former child star Leonardo DiCaprio. This performance may be remembered as his first splash of greatness. Cooper will next appear on the big screen as Young Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights.
Nominated for: Dying for Sex
Past Emmy History: Nominated for Best Comedy Writing for Catastrophe (2015)
Previous Awards: N/A
Hidden Gems: Catastrophe
Delaney first gained audiences recognition for the critical favorite Catastrophe where after a one night stand a couple gets pregnant and decides to stay together. He’ll be reunited at the Emmys with his onscreen wife a nominee for Best Drama Actress Sharon Horgan (Bad Sisters). Delaney, has appeared in multiple projects including Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) and Bad Monkey (2025). Next, he will appear in Sian Heder’s, Being Heumann with Mark Ruffalo.
Peter Sarsgaard
Nominated for: Presumed Innocent
Past Emmy History: Nominated for Best Limited Series/TV Movie Supporting Actor for Dopesick (2022)
Previous Awards: N/A
Hidden Gems: September 5
Sarsgaard, has over 72 credits to his name appearing in a multitude of films from An Education (2009), Blue Jasmine (2013), Black Mass (2015), Jackie (2016) to his wife Maggie Gyllenhaal’s first film: The Lost Daughter (2021) and September 5 (2024). His television limited series work includes The Looming Tower (2018) with Camp and Dopesick.
In Presumed Innocent, Sarsgaard plays adversary to his real-life brother-in-law Jake Gyllenhaal as he works to convict him of murder. Sarsgaard can next be seen opposite Gyllenhaal and Christian Bale in his wife’s second directorial film, The Bride.
Ashley Waters
Nominated for: Adolescence
Past Emmy History: N/A
Previous Awards: N/A
Hidden Gems: Bullet Boy
This is Waters, big breakout role in the U.S. as a police detective investigating the central murder in Adolescence. Waters, can next be seen opposite Jake Gyllenhaal in
M. Night Shyamalan’s Remain.
Fun Emmy Pairing: Since both Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan are nominated why not have the duo present a Writing Award.
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