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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The Tribe Goes to the
2019 Emmys

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Eugene Levy

Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin
Sarah Goldberg and Henry Winkler

Joey King

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