When Kathy Bates took on the position of CBS’s new Matlock, she did so with a promise that it could be her last position, each time the present may finish. Or, as she informed The New York Occasions in September 2024, “That is my final dance.” Sadly for her retirement plans, it doesn’t appear like the dance will finish anytime quickly — the 77-year-old has simply obtained an Emmy nomination for Lead Actress in a Drama Collection, in celebration of her work on the published procedural.
Bates’ nomination was the one one Matlock obtained on Tuesday morning, as broadcast sequence have discovered themselves struggling to get recognition towards cable and streaming sequence in recent times. She did make some historical past with it, as she’s the oldest particular person to ever be nominated within the Lead Actress in a Drama class.
This isn’t Bates’ first Emmy nomination — in reality, she’s been nominated a complete of 15 instances through the years, starting along with her searing efficiency as Jay Leno’s aggressive agent Helen Kushnick within the 1996 HBO film The Late Shift. Presently, she has two wins: The primary as Visitor Actress in a Comedy Collection for a 2012 look on Two and a Half Males, and for her 2014 supporting position in 2014’s American Horror Story: Coven.
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We’ll discover out if she will add a 3rd win to her tally on September 14th, when Nate Bargatze hosts the 2025 Emmy Awards. Try the complete checklist of this 12 months’s nominees right here. Matlock is at the moment in manufacturing on Season 2, which is able to premiere October twenty second on CBS.