Congratulations to the winner of the 76th Creative Arts Emmy Awards’ Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance category!
Julie Andrews won for her part in Bridgerton at the 2025 ceremony on Saturday, September 6, in Los Angeles. Presenter Craig Robinson accepted the award on Andrews’ behalf, as he was not present.
The other candidates were Hank Azaria (The Simpsons), Maya Rudolph (Big Mouth), Alan Tudyk (Andor), Jeffrey Wright (What If…?), and Steven Yeun (Invincible).
During an interview on the Today program in 2022 to promote her part in the blockbuster Netflix drama, the actress stated that she has yet to meet any of her co-stars and instead watches them on television, much like the rest of the show’s viewers.
“You know, I’ve never met the company in person,” Andrews, 89, explained to co-host Hoda Kotb. “Of course, I see them on the show occasionally. But I do all of my recording far away from them.
Bridgerton aired on Netflix in 2020. The Regency-era love drama explores the lives of prominent families in British high society and their amorous ambitions through the eyes of Lady Whistledown, a mysterious gossip writer.
The program, created by Chris Van Dusen, produced by Shonda Rhimes, and based on novelist Julia Quinn’s book series, is famous for both its plot and its gorgeous surroundings.
“I think it’s gorgeous looking, and they’re all wonderful in it, and they’re lovely people to work with,” Andrews told Today when asked about the series. “Shonda Rhimes and the entire cast are fantastic. And I’m overjoyed that they asked me.
Andrews has previously received Emmy nominations for her portrayal as Lady Whistledown in Bridgerton in 2021 and 2022 and Queen Charlotte in 2023.
In a 2017 interview with ABC News’ “Popcorn With Peter Travers,” Azaria, 61, discussed his talent at impersonating other people’s voices.
“I didn’t realize until I was a young adult that … I was meant to do that professionally and it was a marketable skill—that kind of mimicry,” he told us.
“And even when I realized I wanted to be an actor—which wasn’t until, like, I was in college—I still didn’t connect that that mimicry could be a good part of that,” according to him.
He has been nominated for six Emmys in the same category and has won four of them.
Rudolph, 53, previously detailed how she invented the role of Connie the Hormone Monstress in an interview with Backstage.
“She’s got a very melodic voice, for sure,” she said in 2019. “With the characteristics of her being a monster and hormonal, I was attempting to create a game of highs and lows as well as large.” She’s a large, hairy lady!”
“That really speaks a lot to the joy of doing voiceover and animation: you can really be anything,” she told me.
Rudolph has received two Emmy nominations and three wins for the role.
Tudyk was nominated for his role as K-2SO in the Andor episode “Who Else Knows?”
During a chat with StarWars.com, the actor said that he has witnessed firsthand how much people like his character.
“The neat stories that I always just love to hear are the ones between fathers and daughters and mothers and sons,” remarked his father. “K-2 and Rogue One are things that families connect over.”
“But for children, I’m like, ‘God, wow, kids are growing up fast because everyone dies.’ It would have been traumatic for me, but I was a 70s child,” he remarked.
Tudyk, 54, previously received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series for his role on Con Man in 2017.
Wright has been cast as The Watcher in the Disney+ series What If…?’s episode “What If… 1872?”
Wright, 59, tells Marvel.com that the character is “an interesting one.”
“He has odd powers that we’ve never seen before.” He has access to these worlds, and he has a unique vision,” he stated. “There was a lot to be enthusiastic about, experiment with, and attempt to figure out. The Watcher debuted on the cover of 1963’s FANTASTIC FOUR as the most spectacular entity in the entire cosmos.”
“If you’re an actor and you’re asked to portray anything like that, you become interested!” It’s all about the drama,” he explained. “He was interestingly born into the Marvel Universe, appearing on the moon with the Fantastic Four.” I wanted to know who he was so I could figure out how he would sound for the first time when I heard him.
He is also nominated for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series at the Emmys this year for his performance as Isaac in The Last of Us.
Yeun received a nomination for his voiceover work in Invincible’s episode “What Have I Done?”
The animated series explores father-son interactions, causing Yeun, the primary actor, to reflect on his own parental experience.
“I think these are hitting universal truths of what it means to mentor someone and be mentored by somebody,” Yeun, 41, told PEOPLE in February during the show’s debut. “What it means to genuinely love someone, to make tough decisions in which they may misinterpret your intentions. “There are several levels.”
The Beef actor and his wife, Joana Pak, have two children: daughter Ruth, 6, and son Jude, 8.
He previously received nominations for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for Beef in 2023.
The 2025 Creative Arts Emmys will be given in Los Angeles on Saturday, September 6, and Sunday, September 7. The whole program will air on FXX on Saturday, September 13, at 8 p.m. ET.