“Baby Reindeer”'s Richard Gadd Thanks His Parents — and Fans Out Over Jon Hamm — at Emmys 2024

Gadd beat Hamm, as well as Matt Bomer, Tom Hollander and Andrew Scott, to win outstanding actor in a limited series or movie category at the 76th annual Emmys

The men in the outstanding actor in a limited series or movie category took the lead in a major way, and it paid off at the 76th annual Emmy Awards!

Baby Reindeer star Richard Gadd won the prize at the Emmys on Sunday, Sept. 15, marking his second award of the night. Gadd, 35, also took home the Emmy for outstanding writing for a limited or anthology series or movie.

Gadd's fellow outstanding actor nominee Matt Bomer went back in time in Fellow Travelers and Jon Hamm headed to North Dakota for Fargo. Meanwhile, Tom Hollander and Andrew Scott put their own twists on pop culture mainstays in Feud: Capote vs. The Swans and Ripley, respectively.

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Gadd couldn't believe he beat out Hamm, 53, in particular for the award.

"Ah, you're all crazy, honestly," Gadd said when he took the stage on Sept. 15. "Thank you. Thank you so much, honestly. I wasn't expecting this one at all and I didn’t prepare. I mean, this is not Jon Hamm. I’m your biggest fan! And I told you for ages last night over and over again. But, but like this is nothing in the world."

The Scottish actor also gave some love to his parents in his acceptance speech.

"I'd like to thank my mom and dad — a glaring omission form the previous one as well — and you know, they're the best," Gadd continued. "We've got some trying times as a family and they’ve been through, there for me, a constant source of love and support. The thing I'm most grateful for is they never ever told me what I need to do and they never ever told me who I needed to be. And I think that’s the greatest gift a parent can give a child. They always said, 'Follow your heart and the rest will fall into place.' And I think it’s good advice: follow your heart and the rest will fall into place. Thank you!"

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With Baby Reindeer, Gadd put a story based on his own experience with a stalker on the TV screen — and it became one of Netflix’s 10th most watched English-language shows as of June. Baby Reindeer follows the story of an aspiring comedian named Donny Dunn who recounts his experience of being stalked by a middle-aged woman he calls Martha.

Though Gadd tried to protect the identity of his stalker, a Scottish lawyer named Fiona Harvey came forward after the series became an international hit and claimed to be the woman who inspired Martha. Harvey ended up suing Netflix for $170 million, alleging that the show made it easy for viewers to identify her and ruin her livelihood.

Gadd told The Hollywood Reporter that he cast himself to tell his own story because “it was the right artistic choice.”

“I would never cast myself just because I wanted to do it as an actor,” he clarified. “I would always ask myself if I thought I could bring something to it that was interesting, that elevated the piece. And I thought, because I’ve been through so much of the things in Baby Reindeer, and because it came from a place of truth, that there was something interesting about casting myself as Donny and putting myself in the show. And I think it was.”

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In Fellow Travelers, Bomer, 46, plays a State Department official hiding his sexuality who enters a decades-long relationship with another man (Jonathan Bailey) beginning in the 1950s. The eight-episode Showtime series, based on Thomas Mallon’s 2008 novel, served as a passion project for Bomer and he told PEOPLE he wondered for years “whether or not it would actually come to fruition.”

“When I was nominated, I was so grateful and happy, obviously, but I was also mostly just grateful that a show like Fellow Travelers could exist in the world today, because we've all been around at a time when it couldn't, and we could be on the precipice of a time when it couldn't again,” Bomer said. “So I'm just really thankful that we were able to get the show made.”

Bailey, 36, also received an Emmy nomination for his Fellow Travelers role.

Hamm joined the cast of Fargo season 5 as Roy Tillman, a devious sheriff and rancher preacher in rural North Dakota. The St. Louis native, who also picked up a supporting actor in a drama nomination for his role in The Morning Show season 3, enjoyed getting back to his Midwestern roots in the FX series.

“We’re all so interconnected now with social media that regional differences are blending in a lot of ways,” Hamm told The New York Times. “So that’s part of the fun of Fargo — those people have not been touched by too much social media, which makes for a fun environment.”

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Hollander, 57, channeled Truman Capote in FX’s Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, which tells the story of Capote’s falling out with Manhattan’s top socialites after he published "La Côte Basque, 1965,” a chapter from his book Answered Prayers that aired out the secrets of the woman he referred to as "swans."

Ryan Murphy’s Capote vs. The Swans, also starring Calista Flockhart, Demi Moore, Molly Ringwald, Chloë Sevigny and Naomi Watts, pulled from Laurence Leamer’s book Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era, which Hollander read to prep for the role.

“For me as a British person coming in to do this, every day I was learning things about America that I didn't know, even down to the children's programs that people listened to learn how to spell. It was such an intense thing,” Hollander told PEOPLE. “Even learning about the individual actors that I was working with, because all of them are legendary, all these amazing women and their own places in the recent history of America and their own experience of it. It was a very rich experience for me.”

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Similar to Hollander playing someone who has been previously portrayed on screen, Scott, 47, brought Tom Ripley from Patricia Highsmith's 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley to life in Ripley 25 years after Matt Damon did so on the big screen.

The Netflix limited series follows Tom’s travels through Italy after a wealthy industrialist hires him to head to Europe to convince the man’s dilettante son, Dickie Greenleaf (Johnny Flynn), to come back home to the U.S. The job introduces Tom to a life of deceit, fraud and murder.

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Despite being a seemingly unlikable character, “I found an enormous amount to like,” Scott told Variety of Tom. “There’s something about that character that, I think, a lot of people see themselves in. And I think it’s to do with being an outsider.”

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