In 2021 – three years after bagging a Best Drama Actor Emmy for the final season of “The Americans” – Matthew Rhys returned to compete for the same award as the star of “Perry Mason.” This made him only the ninth man to ever earn recognition for multiple series in that single category. Scroll through our photo gallery to find out who else belongs to this exclusive group.
Counting Rhys, two-thirds of the men listed here won for at least one of their respective shows. This includes James Spader, who was honored for playing Alan Shore on both “The Practice” (2004) and “Boston Legal” (2005; 2007) and James Garner, whose victory for “The Rockford Files” (1977) occurring between his bids for “Maverick” and “Bret Maverick” made him the second and most recent three-series nominee in either drama lead category, after Richard Boone (“Medic”; “Have Gun – Will Travel”; “The Richard Boone Show”).
Despite the fact that male drama series stars were not permanently afforded an exclusive category until 1966, those (like Boone) who competed for earlier generic awards such as “Best Male Star of a Regular Series” are counted here.
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