If TV.com Ran the Emmys: Our Dream Nominees for Supporting Actress in a Drama
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The 2015 Emmy nominations ballots were revealed last week, which means it's now time to decide whose names we'd like to hear called on Thursday, July 16, when the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences announces the shows and actors who are officially in the running to become the winners of the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards.
I asked a few of my fellow TV.com colleagues to join me in choosing our dream nominees, and after much deliberation, we've all chosen who we'd like to see nominated. And as you'll see at the bottom of the page, we're even prepared to defend our choices, too!
Each day for the next couple weeks, we'll be bringing you our highly sought-after, well-respected, and 100 percent non-negotiable opinions on which shows and actors we believe should make the cut. We've already shared our picks for the comedy categories, including Supporting Actress in a Comedy, Supporting Actor in a Comedy, Lead Actress in a Comedy, Lead Actor in a Comedy, and Outstanding Comedy Series. Today we begin our drama selections. Kicking things off are our picks for Supporting Actress in a Drama.
CORY BARKER
DREAM NOMINEES (left to right): Carrie Coon, The Leftovers; January Jones, Mad Men; Kerry Bishé, Halt and Catch Fire; Mackenzie Davis, Halt and Catch Fire; Caitlin Fitzgerald, Masters of Sex; and Rhea Seehorn, Better Call Saul
NOEL KIRKPATRICK
DREAM NOMINEES: Joelle Carter, Justified; Kerry Bishé, Halt and Catch Fire; Katja Herbers, Manhattan; Kate Mulgrew, Orange Is the New Black; Lorraine Toussaint, Orange Is the New Black; and Sarah Steele, The Good Wife
TIM SURETTE
DREAM NOMINEES: Amy Acker, Person of Interest; Kerry Bishé, Halt and Catch Fire; Lorraine Toussaint, Orange Is the New Black; Carrie Coon, The Leftovers; Lena Headey, Game of Thrones; and Katja Herbers, Manhattan
KAITLIN THOMAS
DREAM NOMINEES: Joelle Carter, Justified; Mae Whitman, Parenthood; Lena Headey, Game of Thrones; Katja Herbers, Manhattan; January Jones, Mad Men; and Maura Tierney, The Affair
PLEAD YOUR CASE
WHY AMY ACKER: Playing crazy isn't necessarily a difficult thing to do. You bug your eyes, stutter, and wave your hands like mosquitos are constantly buzzing 'round your head. But playing crazy with some heart takes talent, and no one on television has embraced that combination like Acker as Root on Person of Interest. Acker moves from reciting techno-jargon like a typewriter to reaching into the pits of her soul for Root's emotional scenes, and she was the force behind broadcast television's greatest girl-on-girl romance because she made you believe that she found love—or whatever Root's version of love is—with Shaw. This is a stacked category this year and Acker will go unnoticed by Emmy voters again, but it won't be because she doesn't deserve it. — Tim
WHY JOELLE CARTER: Justified will be remembered for the central relationship between Raylan and Boyd, which anchored the series' final season, but the true star was Joelle Carter's Ava. Not since Margo Martindale's Mags Bennett has a woman been able to so deftly steal the spotlight in Harlan, but Carter made it look easy as Ava was pulled between the man she'd once loved and the man dangling her freedom over her head in exchange for betraying that man. The entire final season rested on what Ava would do and Carter made the character's fear palpable and her anxiety accessible, a direct conflict to the cool attitude and smooth talking ways of her male counterparts. Sympathetic through it all, Ava was our entry point into the series and her sense of self-preservation felt both realistic and kept us on our toes until the very end. — Kaitlin
Who would YOU nominate for Supporting Actress in a Drama?
