Owen Cooper, the breakout star of Netflix’s hit restricted collection “Adolescence,” has gained the Emmy for 2025 Excellent Supporting Actor in a Restricted or Anthology Collection or Film, making him the youngest male Emmy winner ever at age 15.
Cooper was 14 when he filmed “Adolescence,” and he was additionally the youngest actor to ever be nominated in his class. Roxana Zal, who gained an Emmy in 1984 for the particular “One thing About Amelia,” stays the youngest winner ever in any class at age 14.
However particularly notable for Cooper is that his Emmy win got here for his first on-screen efficiency of his profession. He’s already parlayed the acclaim he’s acquired for his work into taking part in a younger Heathcliffe (who grows into Jacob Elordi) in Emerald Fennell’s upcoming “Wuthering Heights” adaptation.
Cooper gained over a discipline that additionally included his “Adolescence” co-star Ashley Waters, in addition to a bunch of seasoned actors a few years his senior, together with Javier Bardem for “Monster: The Lyle and Eric Menendez Story,” Rob Delaney for “Dying for Intercourse,” and Peter Sarsgaard and Invoice Camp each for “Presumed Harmless.”
Cooper stated on stage that when he began taking performing lessons three years in the past, he by no means imagined that he can be in the USA, not to mention standing on the Emmys stage.
“In the event you pay attention and also you focus and also you step out of your consolation zone, you possibly can obtain something. I used to be nothing three years in the past. Who cares when you get embarrassed,” Cooper stated.
Netflix’s “Adolescence” was nominated for 13 Emmys and gained two from the Artistic Arts Emmys, these being Excellent Casting for Shaheen Baig (presumably for locating Cooper) and Excellent Cinematography for Matthew Lewis. Lewis gained for the present’s second episode, which doesn’t characteristic Cooper, however every episode of the present is filmed in a single full, unbroken take and has wowed audiences with its craft. Philip Barantini additionally gained for steering for “Adolescence.”
Regardless of simply 4 episodes totaling fewer than 4 hours, “Adolescence” rapidly grew to become one in all Netflix’s hottest collection ever, sitting at No. 2 on its international High 10 listing for English-language reveals behind solely “Wednesday” Season 1 and forward of “Stranger Issues 4.” The present follows the sudden, shock arrest of a 13-year-old boy, performed by Cooper, whom we later study is accused of homicide. The collection isn’t a whodunnit however an exploration of the felony system and the way poisonous masculinity can fester underneath the radar of well-meaning dad and mom. Cooper’s breathtaking work will be seen in Episode 3, during which he and a psychologist are head to head in a prolonged and ultimately intense session.
The work is so sturdy, IndieWire additionally acknowledged Cooper on the IndieWire Honors occasion in June, during which he informed the gang that what began off as little greater than a passion, “performing has actually taken me out of my consolation zone and impressed me to study and absorb data from different skilled actors.”