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Angela Bassett Wins First Emmy Award After 9 Nominations: 'Feels Really Good To Hold This In My Hands'

Angela Bassett has secured her first Emmy , earning the recognition for Outstanding Narrator for the National Geographic docuseries, “Queens.” Bassett, who earned the award on Saturday, showed gratitude to the entire staff on her special night. “We don’t work for these, but we receive them for all the hard work that we do,” Bassett said in an interview at the awards show, per Variety . “Of course, it’s not work that you do alone, even though it’s for narration. There’s a whole team that pursued me and believed in me, fought for me, and worked with me to tell this amazing story of females in the wild kingdom, led by an all-female production team, a first in wildlife documentary filmmaking. So that was pretty inspiring to me in and of itself.”

The idea of an all-female crew in the wilderness telling this story and centering it on the matriarchs and the conservation they were doing — it touched my heart,” Bassett said. Bassett, who has earned nine career Emmy nominations, was in shock when she was finally recognized as a winner on Saturday. So much of my life is spent on camera telling stories, that when I have the opportunity to step back and allow these majestic, powerful creatures to be the center of our attention, I am honored to be their voice.”

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