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Owen Cooper, 15, made history at the Emmys. He joins a very select
group of young winners
By Lisa Respers France, CNN
Updated:
10:07 AM EDT, Mon September 15, 2025
Source: CNN
Owen Cooper is living a teenage dream.
On Sunday, the 15-year-old became the youngest performer to for
outstanding supporting actor in a limited series or TV movie, thanks to
his critically acclaimed performance as a troubled teen in
“Adolescence.”
He joined the ranks of these other young performers who have also made
history:
Roxana Zal
Zal won the Emmy for outstanding supporting actress in a limited series
or special in 1984 for her performance in “Something About Amelia.”
She was 14 at the time and remains the youngest Emmy winner ever.
Zal played teen Amelia Bennett in the TV movie, which revolved around
the trauma of a young woman who is molested by her father.
Ted Danson and Glenn Close starred as her parents.
Scott Jacoby
Jacoby was 16 in 1973 when he won for outstanding supporting actor in a
drama for his portrayal as Nick Salter in the television movie, “That
Certain Summer.”
It starred Hal Holbrook as a father who reveals to his son that he is
gay. The made for television film was groundbreaking at the time and is
widely viewed as one of the first nuanced portrayals of a gay parent on
TV.
Anthony Murphy
That same year, 17-year-old British actor Anthony Murphy won the Emmy
for outstanding single performance by an actor in a leading role for
“Tom Brown’s Schooldays,” which was a Masterpiece Theater
production.
The miniseries is an adaptation of the 1857 Thomas Hughes novel of the
same name. Murphy portrayed the title character who is bullied at
school
Kristy McNichol
“Family” was a popular ABC series in the 1970s which centered on
the lives of an upper middle class family living in Pasadena,
California.
One of its youngest stars, McNichol, was 15 when she won an Emmy for
outstanding performance by a supporting actress in 1977.
She played daughter, Letitia “Buddy” Lawrence, on the series.
Jharrel Jerome
The emotionally charged Netflix miniseries “When They See Us”
dramatized the case of the “Central Park 5,” who were five Black
and Latino teenagers that were wrongfully convicted after a white
female jogger was brutally attacked in Central Park in 1989.
Jerome wowed viewers and critics alike for his portrayal as one of the
teens, Korey Wise. The actor was 21 when he became the youngest actor,
and first Afro-Latino, to win the outstanding lead actor in a limited
series or movie Emmy in 2019.
Zendaya
In 2020, Zendaya became the youngest performer to ever win for
outstanding lead actress in a drama series for her role as troubled
teen Ruby “Rue” Bennett in HBO’s “Euphoria.”
She was 24 at the time and repeated the win in the same category for
the same role two years later.
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