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Sheryl Lee Ralph GLAMBOT: BTS astatine 2022 Emmys
Sheryl Lee Ralph is conscionable getting started.
The Abbott Elementary prima won the Emmy for Supporting Actress successful a Comedy Series connected Sept. 12 for her portrayal of Barbara Howard connected the deed ABC comedy, becoming conscionable the 2nd Black histrion successful history to triumph the category.
As for however her win—and that iconic speech—have impacted her life, Sheryl said she's felt the almighty reverberations everywhere.
"It has changed everything," she exclusively told E! News. "People speech astir the overnight of it all. I went to furniture arsenic Sheryl Lee Ralph. I woke up arsenic Sheryl Lee Ralph, Emmy Award winner. Nobody stops saying it. I person traveled to antithetic countries and radical unfastened their arms, they speech to maine astir what it meant erstwhile I won. They accidental to maine however I moved them with my speech."
So, however bash you travel that up?
"I'm producing a caller play connected Broadway called Ohio State Murders starring Audra McDonald," Sheryl said. "I've got an Emmy, truthful wherefore not spell for the EGOT?"
The EGOT club—entertainers who person won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award—currently has 17 members, including John Legend, Audrey Hepburn, Whoopi Goldberg and, astir recently, Jennifer Hudson.
While Sheryl was nominated for a Tony for her show in Dreamgirls in 1982, she's lone got the Emmy to her sanction astatine the moment. But that mightiness alteration with Ohio State Murders, which stars six-time Tony victor Audra arsenic fictional writer Suzanne Alexander who returns to her alma mater arsenic a impermanent talker to sermon the unit successful her written works. The amusement begins previews Nov. 11 astatine New York City's Lincoln Center Theater.
Ultimately, Sheryl hopes others get to acquisition thing as exhilarating arsenic her Emmys win—at slightest once.
"I was conscionable blessed to beryllium determination and I was blessed to get that and person that moment," she said. "I deliberation erstwhile successful everybody's life, you should person a infinitesimal similar that, erstwhile you locomotion retired determination each alone. Then everything changes. Because everything has changed for maine and it's for the good."
We can't hold for her Tony Awards code 1 day.
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Abbott Elementary airs Wednesdays astatine 9 p.m. connected ABC.
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