Cristin Milioti has a whole lotta of EGOT action going on. She has already been a Lead Actress Tony Award nominee for her Broadway lead role in Once which she played over 500 times from 2011 to 2013 a Grammy winner for that show’s cast album, and now recipient of her first Emmy nomination as Lead Actress in a Limited Series, Anthology or Television Movie for her acclaimed villain Sofia Falcone in The Penguin . And also this season she returned to her role as Nanette Cole in the iconic USS Callister episodes of Black Mirror. which she first played back in 2017, and now again 8 years later. In fact between The Penguin’s 24 Emmy Nominations and Black Mirror’s 10 nominations she is in no less that two of the five nominees for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series adding up to 34 nominations between them.
Milioti continues to show she knows how to pick ’em as also evidenced by her past career choices including that Broadway run in Once; her first series in 2006 as Catherine Sacrimoni in another Emmy juggernaut, The Sopranos; guest shots in The Good Wife, 30 Rock, Nurse Jackie, The Mindy Project, Fargo, ; the key part of Tracy McConnell, the “mother” in the final season of How I Met Your Mother; plus movie roles in Martin Scorsese’s Oscar nominated The Wolf Of Wall Street playing the first wife of Leo DiCaprio’s character; and opposite Andy Samberg in the critically acclaimed Sundance sensation Palm Springs.
It is an enormously impressive career so far and Milioti is red hot, especially opposite Colin Farrell’s Penguin in a role that has taken her to the next level and now to the Emmys. We talk about all of this and more in a wide ranging conversation as Milioti joins me for this week’s episode of my Deadline video series, The Actor’s Side.
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