Last night, September 21st 2008 the 60th Annual Emmy Awards were presented at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles. Theater stars Jeremy Piven, Dianne Wiest, Cynthia Nixon, Dame Eileen Atkins, Laura Linney, Alec Baldwin, Glenn Close and Zeljko Ivanek were among the winners.
Jeremy Piven, who is currently in rehersals for the upcoming revival of
David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow, won Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy for his work on Entourage. Diane Wiest, who just began previews opposite
Katie Holmes,
John Lithgow and
Patrick Wilson in the revival of
Arthur Miller's
All My Sons, won Best Supporting Actress in a Drama for her work on In Treatment.
Zeljko Ivanek, who won for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama, is perhaps best known to theater audience for his work in The Pillowman. He also won a 1981 Drama Desk Award for his work in
Caryl Churchill's Cloud 9.
Laura Linney, who recently starred in the Broadway revival of Les Liaisons Dangereuses has won the Emmy for best Lead Actress in a Miniseries for her work on the HBO drama
John Adams.
Cynthia Nixon, who recently appeared in Rabbit Hole, won for Best Guest Actress in a Drama Series for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie went to Dame
Eileen Atkins for her performance in "Cranford." She is currently treading the boards in the West End in The Female of the Species.
Best Actor in a Comedy went to
Alec Baldwin for 30 Rock, who was last seen on Broadway in Twentieth Century as Oscar Jaffe. Best Acress in a Drama went to
Glenn Close for Damages, who last appeared on stage in Sunset Boulevard as Norma Desmond.
For a complete list of the winners please click HERE.
To view BroadwayWord.com's photo coverage of the Press Room please click HERE.
Photos by Sara De Boer/ Retna Ltd
Adrian Grenier
Susan Sarandon
John Cryer and wife
Tina Fey
Melora Hardin
Kevin Spacey
Debra Messing
Jenna Fischer
Laura Dern and Ben Harper
Patrick Dempsey and wife
Dana Delaney
Marcia Cross
Lauren Conrad
Mariska Hargitay
Jean Smart
Kate Walsh
Brooke Shields
Nicolette Sheridan
Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon
Joey Fatone and Lisa Rinna
Sean Combs with his mother, Janice Combs
Sandra Oh
Cynthia Nixon
Julia Louis Dreyfus
Eva Longoria and husband Tony Parker
Heidi Klum
Holly Hunter
Sarah Paulson and Felicity Huffman
Felicity Huffman
Felicity Huffman
Teri Hatcher
Audra McDonald
Audra McDonald
Talia Balsam and John Slattery
Jeremy Piven
Jeremy Piven
Neil Patrick Harris
Neil Patrick Harris
Cynthia Nixon
Cynthia Nixon
Kristin Chenoweth
Kristin Chenoweth
America Ferrera
Vanessa Williams
America Ferrera
Glenn Close
Glenn Close
Christina Applegate
Christina Applegate
Christina Applegate
Vanessa Williams
Alan Cumming
Alan Cumming
Mary Tyler Moore
Kathy Lee Gifford
Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser and Maggie Siff
Laura Dern
Rachel Griffiths
