LOS ANGELES — “Mama, you were there for me when no one else was, and no one else would show up,” actor Tramell Tillman said as he accepted his first Emmy award. “This is for you."

In 2014, Tillman was the first Black man to graduate from the University of Tennessee with a Master of Fine Arts. Now, he has become the first Black actor to win an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.

This was also the only category that had yet to honor a Black performer in the Emmys’ 77-year history.

"I am full. I am humbled," Tillman said. "I am honored, and as my mother would say, ‘Woo! Look at God.’"

Tillman won for his role as Seth Milchick in the hit Apple TV+ show "Severance," which he's been in since the series premiered in 2022.

Tillman was up against his fellow co-stars Zach C

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