Entertainment Regina King Wins Emmy For Watchmen While Wearing Shirt Honouring Breonna Taylor

Nobody is doing it like Regina King.

The actor won her fourth Emmy award in six years on Sunday, picking up the trophy in the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie category for her performance in HBO’s one-season-wonder Watchmen.

King took home the same award in 2018 for her work in the short-lived Netflix series Seven Seconds before going on to win her first Oscar the following year for If Beale Street Could Talk.

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Regina King picked up a much-deserved Emmy Award for her work in Watchmen on Sept. 20 and took the time to highlight the Black Lives Matter movement and Breonna Taylor while accepting her award. Underneath the blazer was a shirt with Breonna 's face and the words "SAY HER NAME " . @ ReginaKing wins the # Emmy for lead actress in a limited series or movie for her role in

' Watchmen ' star Regina King won the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie at Sunday's virtual ceremony. King accepted the Emmy from her home, wearing a pink blazer over a T- shirt bearing the face of Breonna Taylor with the words “Say Her Name .”

King previously picked up back-to-back Emmys in 2015 and 2016 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for her standout turns in American Crime.

Her competition this year, however, was perhaps as fierce as it’s ever been: Cate Blanchett, Kerry Washington, Octavia Spencer and Shira Haas.

But King came out on top once again, delivering her acceptance while wearing a “Say Her Name” T-shirt with a portrait of Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old emergency room technician who was fatally shot by police in March.

The Latest: Regina King wins an Emmy Award for 'Watchmen'

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest from the Emmy Awards (all times PDT): 6:15 p.m. Regina King is an Emmy superhero, and queen of the limited series. King won best actress in a limited series or TV movie Sunday night for her role as Angela Abar, aka the masked hero Sister Night, on HBO’s “Watchmen.” King was handed the trophy as she sat in a living room in the pandemic-altered Emmys. It’s the fourth Emmy in six years for King, all of them for limited series. She won the same award in 2018 for “Seven Seconds,” and took best supporting actress in a limited series or TV movie for two different roles on “American Crime” in 2015 and 2016.

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Regina King , who won earlier for " Watchmen ," also wore a shirt honoring Taylor who was killed after police entered her apartment and opened fire. Regina King picked up an award for outstanding lead actress in a limited series or movie for " Watchmen ." And the people behind the Room Rater

“This is so freaking weird,” King said, before thanking her fellow nominees. “I really love being a thespian.”

She went on to thank show creator Damon Lindelof for allowing the cast and crew to “bring art to truth to power.”

“You gotta vote. I would be remiss not to mention that, being part of a show as prescient as Watchmen,” she continued. “Make a plan. Be a good human. Rest in power, RBG.”

Watchmen led all shows heading into the awards ceremony with 26 nominations.

King’s co-stars Jeremy Irons, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jovan Adepo, Louis Gossett Jr. and Jean Smart were also nominated for their work on the show, which is in the running for Outstanding Limited Series.

The Lindelof-created drama was inspired by the iconic graphic novel of the same name. King starred as Angela Abar, a detective for the Tulsa police force in Oklahoma by day who assumes the role of the vigilante Sister Night when the sun goes down. The series was hailed as the most timely television event of the year as it confronted issues such as white supremacy, police brutality and America’s racist past and present.

Emmy winners highlight push for social justice

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Regina King and Uzo Aduba used the come-as-you-are fashion edict for Sunday's virtual Emmy Awards to highlight the national struggle for social justice. Both Black actresses wore T-shirts featuring Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old EMT from Louisville, Kentucky, who was shot and killed by police in March. King’s T-shirt featured Taylor’s face. “The cops still haven’t been held accountable,” King said in a Zoom session with media. “She represents just decades, hundreds of years of violence against Black bodies.

Regina King just won the Emmy for Best Actress in a Limited Series or TV Movie for her role in Watchmen . Regina paid tribute to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Breonna Taylor during her speech. She was nominated alongside Cate Blanchett, Shira Haas, Octavia Spencer

Oscar winner and Emmy nominee Regina King wore a shirt with Breonna Taylor ’s image under Zooming in from Santa Fe, an incredibly relaxed King never directly called attention to her shirt , but Simply reading “ Breonna Taylor ” in gold, Aduba honored the 26-year-old aspiring nurse who was

King said she drew on “all my experiences ... of being a Black woman” for the part.

“When I’m doing a role, I usually have a person as the blueprint to give myself a backstory,” she told The Wrap.

“With Angela, I didn’t have that person or experience that I was specifically drawing from. But just recently I made the discovery that what I was pulling from was probably all the experiences, including my own, of being a Black woman. And as we got deeper into the process, I started to personalise her more.”

Watchmen likely won’t return for a second instalment, but King isn’t slowing down anytime soon. The actor’s awards streak could continue come Oscar season with her feature-film directorial debut, One Night in Miami, already bringing the buzz after its premiere at the Venice Film Festival this month.