OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES

Janelle James as Ava Coleman for (“Career Day”) in “ABBOTT ELEMENTARY”

Sheryl Lee Ralph as Barbara Howard for (“Librarian”) in “ABBOTT ELEMENTARY”

Michaela Jaé Rodriguez as Sofia for (“Clueless”) in “LOOT”

Meryl Streep as Loretta Durkin for (“The Show Must…”) in “ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING”

Lisa Ann Walter as Melissa Schemmenti for (“Librarian”) in “ABBOTT ELEMENTARY”

Kara Young as Jones for (“A Metaphor for What”) in “I’M A VIRGO”

AND THE WINNER IS:

JANELLE JAMES AS AVA COLEMAN FOR ("CAREER DAY") IN "ABBOTT ELEMENTARY"

This is the fourth win and fifth nomination for Janelle James. She previously won individually for season 1 of Abbott Elementary, also being nominated for season 2. She also won for both seasons as part of the ensemble of Abbott Elementary. She wins for her performance as Ava Coleman on Abbott Elementary.

I will admit to slightly questioning some writing decisions when it came to Ava Coleman in the shows second season only because I had loved Ava entirely in the first season. However from the immediate start of the third season and throughout the rest of it's fourteen episode run the Ava I loved was back and I found it such a pleasure to experience James individual performance every week. The first episode gave James one of her most iconic moments of the series so far with her "Back that Ass up" exorcism dance where the old Ava comes back through the power off dance.

It truly is a miracle of a performance that James performs and I will never get tired of her wild role and I hope to many more seasons of brilliantly delivered dialogue, great physical bits and a compelling character comedically that Ava Coleman has become.