Jodie Foster has won her first Emmy.
Foster, who won two Oscars for Best Actress for The Accused and The Silence of the Lambs, has finally triumphed at the primetime TV awards on the fifth time of asking in the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Anthology Series or Movie category.
Foster, who won the award for her role as Chief Liz Danvers in HBO’s True Detective: Night Country, said, “This is an incredibly emotional moment for me, because True Detective: Night Country was just a magical experience, and it all comes from the top, the beautiful, wonderful, talented Issa Lopez.”
She also thanked the show’s Icelandic crew as well as her “partner in crime” Kali Reis.
“Mostly the Indigenous people and Inuit people of Northern Alaska, they just told us their stories, and they allowed us to listen. That was just a blessing. It was love, love, love. When you feel that something amazing happens, it’s deep and wonderful, and it’s older than this place,” she added.
The actor has previously been Emmy nominated for producing Showtime television movie The Baby Dance in 1999 and directing Netflix’s Orange Is The New Black in 2014 as well as a Daytime Emmy nomination for AMC: Film Preservation Classics.
She beat out some pretty heavyweight competition in Lessons In Chemistry’s Brie Larson, Fargo’s Juno Temple, Griselda’s Sofia Vergara and Feud: Capote vs. The Swans’ Naomi Watts.
It’s not a huge surprise given Foster’s career, as well as the fact that TV Academy voters tend to prefer A-list movie stars and Oscar winners in this category including recent wins for the likes of Amanda Seyfried for The Dropout, Regina King for Watchmen and Seven Seconds, Kate Winslet for Mare of Easttown, Michelle Williams for Fosse/Verdon and Nicole Kidman in Big Little Lies.
Last year, Ali Wong won for her role in Netflix’s Beef.
Foster starred alongside Kali Reis in the fourth season of HBO’s anthology series, which has been renewed for a fifth season from showrunner Issa López. The pair play detectives who have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves, and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice in order to solve the disappearance of the eight men who operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station in Ennis, Alaska.