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LaNasa, who was born in New Orleans but raised in Baton Rouge,\u00a0plays a tough yet compassionate charge nurse, Dana, opposite Noah Wylie\u2019s Dr. Michael Robinavitch. She won an Emmy for outstanding supporting actress in 2025 for the role, more than 30 years after her Hollywood debut.<\/p>\n
Anderson, who previously starred as Sid in \u201cAtypical,\u201d appears in \u201cThe Pitt\u201d as the twin sister of Dr. Mel King, played by actress Taylor Dearden. It\u2019s the first Emmy nomination for Anderson, who has autism and has been outspoken about disability inclusion in TV and film.<\/p>\n
The 2026 Emmy Awards show will air on NBC on Sept. 14 and is set to be hosted by Mariska Hargitay.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nola.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two New Orleans-born actresses who star in the hit hospital drama \u201cThe Pitt\u201d were nominated Wednesday for Emmy awards honoring their performances. Katherine LaNasa, 59, and Tal Anderson, 28, were nominated for outstanding supporting actress in a drama series and outstanding guest actress in a drama series, respectively. Both star in the emergency-room show that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2493799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2493798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/New-Orleans-natives-\u2018The-Pitt-stars-get-Emmy-nominations.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2493798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2493800,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493798\/revisions\/2493800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2493799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2493798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2493798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2493798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}