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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- "Widow's Bay" stormed the Emmy Awards on Monday night, taking best actor for star Matthew Rhys and tying a record for Emmys for a comedy in a season with 13.
Jean Smart won her fifth best actress award for the fifth and final season of "Hacks" and Noah Wyle made it two for two as best actor in a drama for "The Pitt."
The Apple TV horror comedy "Widow's Bay" rode into the night on a wave of buzz. It had already won eight Emmys at an earlier ceremony and added four more, including supporting actress for breakout star Kate O'Flynn and supporting actor for Stephen Root.
Rhys also won best actor in a limited series for "The Beast in Me," becoming the first man to win two leading actor categories in the same year.
"The celebrations will be long, varied, and I hope at times wild," Rhys said backstage while holding both Emmys.
It also won for directing for Hiro Murai and for writing for its creator Dippold, a first-time Emmy winner and first-time nominee who was previously best known for an old viral tweet showing her dressed as "The Babadook."
If it wins best comedy series, "Widow's Bay" would break the record for Emmys in a comedy that "The Studio" set last year with 13.
Smart's fifth win was an unprecedented sweep. No actor had won an Emmy every year for a series that lasted more than three seasons until she did it Monday.
"What a ride this has been," an emotional Smart said after getting a standing ovation.
The 75-year-old Smart has won eight Emmys overall in a career that was already more than respectable when she landed her defining role of Deborah Vance, a brash stand-up comic pushing back against age, obscurity and sexism in the HBO Max series.
Wyle won the Emmy for the second season of "The Pitt," HBO Max's real-time emergency room drama, for playing Dr. Michael "Robby" Robinavitch, a role that brought him a major career revival after starring in "ER" in the 1990s.
"I grew up in LA, I'm a Hollywood kid. I was raised on a television, and movie theaters were my place of worship," Wyle said in his acceptance. "This is all I've ever wanted to do, and this is the only club I've ever wanted to join."