Jamie Lee Curtis Wins Best Guest Actress Emmy for “The Bear”

Jamie Lee Curtis has won an Emmy for her work on “The Bear.”

The actress who has a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe award and an Academy Award, can add the Emmy to her accolades after taking home the award Sunday for best guest actress in a comedy for her work on the hit FX show.

Curtis was previously nominated for “Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie” in 1998 for “Nicholas’ Gift.”

On “The Bear,” she played Donna Berzatto, the alcoholic mother of Carmy, Sugar and Mikey, in two episodes from Season 2. She is originally introduced in “Fishes,” a flashback episode chronicling the events of a family Christmas dinner five years prior to the show’s original timeline.

Ebon Moss-Bachrach, who plays Richie on the show, raved about Curtis’ performance in an interview with Variety. “Jamie Lee (Curtis) was so prepared, and she had such an active job to do that week,” Moss-Bachrach said. “It’s so hard to show up as a guest on somebody else’s set and own it like Jamie Lee did. It’s really remarkable. I can’t overstate how impressed I was with the work and preparation she did.”

Curtis beat Olivia Colman (“The Bear”), Kaitlin Olson (“Hacks”), Da’Vine Joy Randolph (“Only Murders in the Building”), Maya Rudolph (“Saturday Night Live”) and Kristen Wiig (“Saturday Night Live”) who were also nominated in the category.

“The Bear” premiered on June 23, 2022. Season 3 premiered on June 26.