42 | SEPTEMBER 19 • 2019 THEJEWISHNEWS.COM
Arts&Life
T
he Primetime Emmys, for excellence
in TV, will be presented at 8 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 22, on Fox. There will
be no host. The number of categories (27) is
a record and many categories now have more
than the “traditional” five nominees. Here
are the confirmed Jewish nominees.
ACTING
Lead actor, comedy series: Michael
Douglas, 74,The Kominsky Method, and
Eugene Levy, 72, Schitt’
s
Creek; Lead actress, come-
dy series: Natasha Lyonne,
40, Russian Doll; Lead
actress, limited series or TV
movie: Patricia Arquette,
51, Escape at Dannemora,
and Joey King, 20, The Act;
Supporting actor, comedy series: Henry
Winkler, 73, Barry, and Alan Arkin, 85,
The Kominsky Method. Arkin and Winkler
compete with Tony Shalhoub, who isn’
t
Jewish, but is nominated for playing a
Jewish character in The Amazing Mrs.
Maisel; Supporting actress, comedy
series: Alex Borstein, 48, Mrs. Maisel and
Sarah Goldberg, 34, Barry. Borstein and
Goldberg compete with Marin Hinkle, who
isn’
t Jewish, but plays a Jewish character in
Mrs. Maisel; Supporting actress, drama
series: Julia Garner, 25, Ozark; Supporting
actress, limited series: Patricia Arquette
(whose late mother was Jewish), The Act.
ACTING NOTES
The Arquette-King competition for the lead
actress Emmy (above) is a bit weird. Arquette
is a supporting actress nominee for playing
Joey King’
s mother in The Act and a lead
actress nominee (limited series) for Escape at
Dannemora. King is a lead actress nominee
(limited series) for playing Arquette’
s daugh-
ter in The Act.
Almost all the major characters in Mrs.
Maisel are Jewish, but the only Maisel Jewish
thespian to get an Emmy nomination, Alex
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Eugene Levy
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Sarah Goldberg and Henry Winkler
Joey King
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