Thanks to her performance in Wednesday, Jenna was nominated for best lead actress in a comedy series, a category that has been lacking in Latina nominees since 2008, when America Ferrera earned her second nod for Ugly Betty.
Jenna also becomes the second youngest nominee in history for best lead actress in a comedy. At 20, Jenna is only older than Patty Duke, who was 17 at the time of her Emmy nomination in 1964 for her series, The Patty Duke Show. While The Patty Duke Show was a sitcom, Duke was nominated before the Emmys split the actress race between comedy and drama. At the time, it was an award for “Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Series.”
Ironically this year, Pedro Pascal, who is Chilean-American, is the first Latino to earn a best lead actor in a drama series nomination since Jimmy Smits in 1999 for NYPD Blue. Pascal’s performance in The Last of Us as a man trying to survive a zombie apocalypse with a surrogate daughter (Bella Ramsey).
Below: The official trailer for Season 1 of Wednesday.
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