What does Steve Carell have to do for Emmy voters to take notice?
In recent years, he’s died in car accidents twice (Apple TV’s “The Morning Show” and Netflix’s “Four Seasons”), been a billionaire with incurable cancer (HBO’s “Mountainhead”) and a therapist held hostage by his homicidal patient (FX’s “The Patient”). Geez, hasn’t this guy been through enough?
I guess it’s a spoiler alert, but Carell’s character on the HBO Max comedy “Rooster,” author-turned-college-instructor Greg Russo, is still alive at the end of Season 1 of the college-centric comedy. But given the recent morbid outcomes of Carell’s TV characters, it’s understandable if you held your breath and wondered if Greg would survive the season.
Carell earned an Emmy nomination this year in lead actor in a comedy series for “Rooster,” which reps the star’s 12th overall nod. In the win column, however, he has a big zero. Among all of this year’s Emmy-nominated performers, Carell has the most career nominations without a win.
That puts him in illustrious company: The only star who ever earned more Emmy nominations without a single win was “Murder She Wrote” star Angela Lansbury, who landed 18 career nominations but never won the prize before her death in 2022. (She was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1996, but that’s not an Emmy.)
