WATCH: Celebrating the great Jean Smart on the seven-time Emmy winner’s 75th birthday

Jean Smart turns 75 today and I hope she gets a belated birthday present on Monday in the form of an eighth Emmy Award.

She is nominated for lead actress in a comedy for the fifth and final season of Hacks and, I think, she will again win. It will be very much deserved for the greatest role in a career filled with great roles.

I’ve loved her since her days as Charlene on Designing Women and have been astounded by her series of acting triumphs since then on such shows as Frasier, 24, Samantha Who?, Fargo, Mare of Eastown and Watchmen, among others.

Film credits include The Brady Bunch Movie, Sweet Home Alabama, Garden State, A Simple Favor and she received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Guinevere in 1999.

Here are some of my favorite Jean Smart scenes: