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Emmys 2011: 'The Closer's' Kyra Sedgwick on 'validation' and her episode submission
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Kyra Sedgwick has a perfect award-nomination record for her time on "The Closer." The series premiered on TNT in 2005, and she's been nominated for an Emmy, a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award every year since.So after a while, it must become routine to be nominated yet again, right?
"No. It really doesn't," Sedgwick tells Zap2it. She's currently working on the final season of "The Closer," which premieres July 11, and is a pretty good bet to be an Emmy nominee for the sixth time three days later. (She won the award for outstanding actress in a drama last year.)
"I almost feel like, Oh, I think I'm going to be really crushed if I don't get nominated," Sedgwick says with a laugh. "... For me, it's validation of continued good work, and that's always been my goal as an actor, is just to do consistently good work. So it's lovely, and I never take it for granted. There's so much good work out there, and so many great actresses doing awesome stuff."
Sedgwick chose the Season 6 episode "War Zone" as her nomination submission this year. It's a key episode in the life of the series -- and will figure heavily in the forthcoming season -- and also one that she says is "really cool."
"It's one where [her character, Brenda Leigh Johnson] basically sets up a gang member to be killed by his fellow members," she says. "I don't cry in the episode [laughs], which I did in the one I won for. ... I just thought it was a super-strong episode for everybody and for me, and really well-written."
Sedgwick will find out if her submission pays off when the Emmy nominations are announced on July 14.
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come on, she doesn't even do that good of a job, and the show is chock full of product placement. JULIANNA MARGUILES does MUCH better work on "The Good Wife" but doesn't win because the show isn't on cable!!
There should be a rule as to the number of years you can be nominated for the same role!! Basically she's just filler, and not that great of an actress, sorry!! Put a better actress and make the nominations more harder to get.
Yeah.... she is just a filler nominee, that's why she won last year. Just a filler. hum hum
just a filler? what are you talking about? the show is great and she's the best part!
Are you kidding me, The Closer is the best show on TV, it's clever, it's funny, it's a tear jerker, at times it is jaw dropping, in other words it's awesome.
Kyra Sedgwick should be nominated, and the emmy winner, she's more than awesome!!