South Korean actress Lee Yoo-mi has won \u2018Outstanding Guest Actress\u2019 at this year\u2019s Creative Arts Emmys for Squid Game.
On September 4, Lee Yoo-mi took home the Outstanding Guest Actress award at the 74th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards for her role as Ji-yeong in 2021\u2019s hit Netflix series Squid Game. This makes the 28-year-old the first Korean actor to win the award.
\u201cI\u2019m so grateful. Thank you so much for giving me such a great award. I\u2019m grateful to the Emmy Awards, and I love Netflix, who is always by my side,\u201d said Lee in her acceptance speech, as seen in a clip uploaded by her agency, VARO Entertainment on Instagram.
\u201cI\u2019m so happy, and I honestly can\u2019t believe it I can\u2019t wait to tell my close friends and brag to them. Thank you so much,\u201d Lee told the press after receiving the award.
In addition to Lee\u2019s win, Squid Game took home three other awards at this year\u2019s Creative Arts Emmy Awards, namely Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Single Episode, Outstanding Stunt Performance and Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Contemporary Program (One Hour or More).
The Creative Arts awards, which celebrates artistic and technical achievement, precedes the upcoming Primetime Emmy Awards, set to take place on September 12.
Squid Game has been nominated in six more categories at the upcoming awards ceremony including Outstanding Drama Series, notably making it the first non-English programme to be nominated in the category.
Following her appearance in Squid Game, Lee joined the cast of Netflix\u2019s 2022 zombie apocalypse series All Of Us Are Dead as wealthy high school student Lee Na-yeon, further propelling her international success.
She will soon be starring in her first-ever leading role in upcoming sports drama Mental Coach Jegal, which premieres later this month. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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