Julia Louis-Dreyfus has made Emmy history.
« This is and continues to be the role of a lifetime and an adventure of utter joy, » she said in her acceptance speech.
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Other nominees included: Pamela Adlon (« Better Things »), Jane Fonda (« Grace and Frankie »), Allison Janney (« Mom »), Ellie Kemper (« Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt »), Tracee Ellis Ross (« black-ish »), and Lily Tomlin (« Grace and Frankie »)
This is Louis-Dreyfus’s seventh win in the category and her eighth Primetime Emmy overall. She previously won for « The New Adventures of Old Christine » and in the supporting actress in a comedy category for « Seinfeld. »
HBO announced earlier this month that Season 7 of « Veep, » set to air in 2018, will be the show’s last.
Louis-Dreyfus joked that they had planned a storyline about an impeachment « but we abandoned that because we were worried someone else might get to it first. »
