NOMINEES & WINNER BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR

2021 BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR NOMINEES

ROY NIK IN NORMALI / NORMAL

ISRAEL - Dori Media / HOT

Noam is a young and promising columnist who writes 800 words every week about what goes on in his life for the weekend edition of Our Country newspaper. His dream is to be perceived as someone who has more to offer to this world than just being the son of Udi Ashkenazi, an acclaimed national poet who is considered a living legend.

NAWAZUDDIN SIDDIQUI IN SERIOUS MEN

INDIA - Bombay Fables / Cineraas Entertainment / Netflix

Nawazuddin Siddiqui plays the character of Ayyan Mani, a middle class married man who has a son. Faced by many hardships in his life and coming from an underprivileged background, he is extremely ambitious and does not want his child to face the problems he did. With the same thought in mind, he devises a master plan that uses his son’s ‘potential’ in a way that benefits the whole family. CHRISTIAN TAPPÁN IN EL ROBO DEL SIGLO / THE GREAT HEIST

COLOMBIA - Dynamo Producciones / Netflix

Jaime Molina, alias “El abogado”, an attorney with failing health, plays confidant and right-hand man to Chayo, helping with the logistics of the bank heist.

DAVID TENNANT IN DES

UNITED KINGDOM - New Pictures / ITV

An outwardly meek Scottish civil servant, Dennis Nilsen is unexpectedly cooperative when he is arrested, freely admitting to killing ‘15 or 16’ victims. He revels in the attention from both the police and the press, but both sides soon learn that trying to decipher a serial killer is a dangerous game.

WINNER

Best Performance by an Actor

DAVID TENNANT

in Des New Pictures / ITV United Kingdom

An outwardly meek Scottish civil servant, Dennis Nilsen is unexpectedly cooperative when he is arrested, freely admitting to killing ‘15 or 16’ victims. He revels in the attention from both the police and the press, but both sides soon learn that trying to decipher a serial killer is a dangerous game.

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With David Tennant

QWhere are you going to keep your Emmy®? Out of reach of the children. That thing is heavy... with spikes!

Q Tell us about the importance of winning an Emmy®?

Telling the story of someone like Dennis Nilsen is a balancing act. As it’s a true story, with real world victims, you have a responsibility to be appropriate and sensitive and not to sensationalize the horrors. We worked on it for a long long time before going into production so to be recognized for it at the end of this journey means an enormous amount.

Q What upcoming projects are you or would you like to be working on next?

Currently filming Good Omens 2 and recently completed a 4 part drama about the murdered Russian dissident Alexander Litvenenko.