First time was a charm tonight for Cristin Milioti who won her first Emmy for Best Actress Limited Series for HBO and DC Studio’s The Penguin .

“Thank you so much. I’m so profoundly grateful,” Miloti said up top. “Sorry, I wrote this [speech] on the back of notes that I took in therapy the other day, so don’t look at the back.”

Milioti then spoke about how much she loved making the show and inhabiting the character of Sofia Falcone. “It’s very hard to make sense of being alive right now in this world, and so I’m deeply grateful for the bright spots,” she said, “and making this show with our incredible cast and incredible crew, and getting to inhabit this woman, was a bright spot for me. Despite it being very grizzly, playing her felt like flying.”

Miloti went on to thank her “inc

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