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Emmys 2015 recap: Jeffrey Tambor wins for “Transparent,” Uzo Aduba for “OITNB”

So thrilled to see Jeffrey Tambor win the first Emmy of his long career on Sunday for his performance as a transgender woman in the Amazon series Transparent.

Tambor won in the category of Lead Actor in a Comedy series and dedicated his award to those who are transgender in real life.

‘I’d like to dedicate my performance and this award to the transgender community,’ he said. ‘Thank you for your courage, thank you for your patience, thank you for your story, thank you for your inspiration, thank you for letting us be part of this change.’

On the show, Tambor plays Maura Pfefferman who comes out as transgender at the age of 70 to her family which includes three grown children with complicated lives of their own.

Tambor finally took home Emmy gold on his seventh nomination. He had previously received four nominations for The Larry Sanders Show and two nods for Arrested Development.

In the award presented immediately before Tambor’s, Transparent creator Jill Soloway won an Emmy for outstanding direction of a comedy series.

She used the moment to call for transgender equality.

The series, about a college professor who comes out to her three adult children as a transgender female, stems from Soloway’s personal experience as the child of a transgender parent.

She spoke of her father, a transgender woman, and said: ‘Thank you moppa for coming out and coming to LA and coming her tonight. Something interesting about my moppa, Carrie. She could tomorrow go and try to find an apartment, and in 32 states it would be legal for the landlord to look her in the eye and say, “We don’t rent to trans people.”‘

Soloway added: ‘We don’t have a trans tipping point yet, we have a trans civil rights problem.’

She then urged viewers to visit the website TransEquality.org and sign up to support the proposed Trans Equality Bill.

After her speech, the website crashed.

Also Sunday, Uzo Aduba won her second Emmy in two years for her portrayal of lesbian prisoner Suzanne ‘Crazy Eyes’ Warren on Orange is the New Black.

Aduba gave one of the night’s most emotional speeches and said to show creator Jenji Kohan: ‘I appreciate you for putting belief back in my heart. I love you mostly because you let me be me.’

The win gave the actress a unique place in the Emmy record books as Aduba became the first performer since Ed Asner to win in both the comedy and drama categories for playing the same role.

While Asner accomplished the feat by portraying the same gruff newsman on the sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show then on the spinoff drama Lou Grant, OITNB competed this year as a drama after being considered a comedy its first year.

Here is a full list of Emmy winners:

Outstanding Drama Series: Game Of Thrones

Outstanding Comedy Series: Veep

Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series: Jon Hamm (Mad Men)

Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series: Viola Davis (How to Get Away With Murder)

Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Drama Series: Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones)

Outstanding Directing For A Drama Series: Game Of Thrones

Outstanding Writing For A Drama Series:
Game Of Thrones

Outstanding Directing For A Variety Series:
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart

Outstanding Writing For A Variety Series:
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart

Outstanding Limited Series:
Olive Kitteridge

Outstanding Lead Actor In A Limited Series Or A Movie:
Richard Jenkins (Olive Kitteridge)

Outstanding Lead Actress In A Limited Series Or A Movie: Frances McDormand (Olive Kitteridge)

Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Limited Series Or A Movie:
Bill Murray (Olive Kitteridge)

Outstanding Directing For A Limited Series, Movie Or A Dramatic Special: Lisa Cholodenko
(Olive Kitteridge)

Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Limited Series Or A Movie:
Regina King (American Crime)

Outstanding Reality-Competition Program: The Voice

Outstanding Lead Actress In A Comedy Series: Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Veep)

Outstanding Lead Actor In A Comedy Series: Jeffrey Tambor (Transparent)

Outstanding Directing For A Comedy Series: Jill Soloway (Transparent)

Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series:
Tony Hale (Veep)

Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series: Allison Janney (Mom)

Outstanding Writing For A Comedy Series: Veep

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