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‘Shogun’ Star Anna Sawai Becomes First Asian Performer to Win Emmy for Lead Drama Actress
Anna Sawai won the Emmy for best actress in a drama series for the FX show "Shogun," becoming the first actor of Asian descent to win the category.
With her victory, Sawai beat out fellow nominees Jennifer Aniston (Apple TV+’s “The Morning Show”), Carrie Coon (HBO’s “The Gilded Age”), Maya Erskine (Amazon’s “Mr. Sawai starred as Toda Mariko, a highborn woman with an important role to play in a brewing civil war among Japan’s ruling council of regents. Not long after, FX announced it was partnering with the Clavell estate and “Shogun” creators Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo to develop two more seasons of the show.
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