After winning an Emmy early this evening for his writing on Netflix’s smash hit drama Adolescence, which he co-created with Jack Thorne, Stephen Graham returned to the stage toward the end of the ceremony to claim his second statuette — this time, in the category of Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.
“This kind of thing doesn’t normally happen to a kid like me,” he said in his acceptance speech. “I’m just a mixed race kid from a block of flats in a place called Kirkby, so for me, to be here today in front of my peers and to be acknowledged by you is the utmost humbling thing I could ever imagine in my life. And it shows you that any dream is possible.”
Graham then thanked his friends and family, without whom “none of this is possible,” as well as his collaborators Thorne and Philip Barantini,…
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