“Baby Reindeer”'s Jessica Gunning Jokes She Almost Exposed 'My Golden Globes' While Accepting Award at 2025 Ceremony

Another winner has been named at the 2025 Golden Globes!

Jessica Gunning took home the award for best performance by a female actor in a supporting role on television on Sunday, Jan. 5 for her role in Baby Reindeer. She received the award from Anthony Ramos and Kathy Bates, whose performance in Misery inspired Gunning's character in the Netflix series.

After accepting the statue, Gunning joked she narrowly avoided a wardrobe malfunction while coming to the stage.

"I almost tripped up," Gunning said at the start of her acceptance speech. "You'd have saw my Golden Globes then."

Gunning also likened the feeling of winning to receiving a hamster as a Christmas gift as a kid.

"This is an absolutely honor," Gunning said. "I honestly … there's a video of me when I was little, over 8 years old, my mom and dad got me a hamster for Christmas and they brought it out in this bin bag — in a cage it wasn't, just in a bin bag. Happy Christmas! And I've got a very Yorkshire accent. I kept saying, 'I can't believe this is happening to me. I can't believe this is happening to me.' "

She continued, "And I realized his morning that that has been a kind of soundtrack for the last year since Baby Reindeer came out. I cannot believe any of this is happening to me. I just want to say 'thank you' to everyone who let me come on this journey."

Gunning proceeded to thank her agent and Baby Reindeer creator and costar Richard Gadd. "Baby Reindeer has changed my life in ways I can't even explain, so thank you for everything," she said. "I can't believe this is happening to me, and I know that 8-year-old me wouldn’t either."

This year's category was stacked with talent as Liza Colón-Zayas for The Bear, Hannah Einbinder for Hacks, Dakota Fanning for Ripley, Allison Janney for The Diplomat and Kali Reis for True Detective: Night Country rounded out the nominations.

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Gunning, 38, rose to fame playing Martha, the stalker of creator and star Richard Gadd’s Donny, in Baby Reindeer. This is her first Golden Globe nomination, and it comes after she won her first Emmy in September for the role.

"Thank you so much!" Gunning said while accepting the honor. "I honestly feel like I'm going to wake up any minute now, this whole thing has been a dream. Thank you very, very much indeed. I'm so incredibly proud to be part of Baby Reindeer. So I would just love to say a huge 'thank you' to everybody who let me, really."

Gunning shouted out many people, but gave her "biggest thanks” to Gadd, saying the show changed  her life.


"I've tried so many times to put into words what working on Baby Reindeer meant to me and I fail every time," she gushed. "So I'm going to sing… no. No, I'll keep it simple and just say thank you for trusting me to be your Martha. I will never, ever forget her or you or this. It really means a lot."

Baby Reindeer was also nominated for best television limited series, anthology series or motion picture made for television, and Gadd received a nomination for best performance by a male actor at this year’s Golden Globes.

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Colón-Zayas, 52, portrayed the role of Tina Marrero in the hit FX series, which is about a Chicago restaurant and its eclectic kitchen staff. This is her first-ever Golden Globe nomination, and it came after another major first when she took home her first Emmy win for the same role in September 2024.

"Thank you to my husband David Zayas, he told me to write a speech and I didn't, because I didn't think it would be possible,” she said when accepting the Emmy. “How could I have thought it would be possible to be in the presence of Meryl Streep and Carol Burnett and Janelle and Sheryl Lee Ralph. I love you all, I revere you to the bottom of my heart."

The Bear had the most Golden Globe nominations this year, landing in five different television categories, including best musical or comedy television series. Colón-Zayas’ costar Ayo Edebiri, Jeremy Allen White and Ebon Moss-Bachrach also received nominations for their roles in the show.

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Einbinder, 29, stars in the Max series Hacks, as Ava Daniels, an up-and-coming writer who is hired to revive the career of Deborah Vance (Jean Smart), an out-of-touch and past-her-prime comedian. The drama finished airing its third season in May 2024, and just one day after the finale, season 4 was announced.

This is the third Golden Globe nomination for Einbinder, who was previously nominated for the same role in 2022 and 2023. In October, her mother, actress Laraine Newman, told PEOPLE how amazed she was about her daughter's rise to fame in comedy.

"I am a genuine, proud mom," she said, recalling the moment her daughter revealed that she wanted to pursue acting. "It was very late. I mean, she had been an athlete and then she went to Chapman for broadcast journalism and then switched to TV writing. And kids were saying, you're funny, why don't you join the improv group? And so that was when she tearfully admitted to me at one point, like the dirty secret, 'I want to be an actor.'”

Hacks was also nominated for best musical or comedy television series at the 2025 Golden Globes, and Smart won nominated for best performance by a female actor in a musical or comedy television series.

This marks 30-year-old Fanning’s first Golden Globe nomination, which she received for her role in Ripley as Marge Sherwood. The Netflix thriller follows con man Tom Ripley (Andrew Scott) after he is hired by a wealthy benefactor to convince his vagabond son Dickie Greenleaf (Johnny Flynn) to return home from Italy. Fanning plays Dickie’s picture-perfect — and suspicious — girlfriend.

In March, she told PORTER about her dreams for her future and reflected on growing up as an actress. "Being an actor is a huge part of my identity. I don't really know who I am without it," she said at the time, adding, "But I also have a desire to set up my life and career so that I always have a choice."

She continued, "Having kids is probably more important to me than anything, even being an actor. If somebody said I had to choose, I would choose having kids. I'm one of those people who has always felt that pull.”

Fanning’s costar Scott was also named as a nominee for starring in Ripley, and the show was nominated for best television limited series, anthology series or motion picture made for television, as well.

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After joining The Diplomat in season 2, Janney, 65, quickly became a fan-favorite. She plays Vice President Grace Penn in the political thriller, which follows U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom Kate Wyler (Keri Russell) and her husband Hal Wyler (Rufus Sewell) as they try to prevent a global war.

In October, star and executive producer Russell (who is nominated for best performance by a female actress) told PEOPLE why she was initially “nervous” for Janney to take on the part.

"Just because she’s awesome and so good,” the Felicity star, 48, said. "I love her. There's a scene she does in Primary Colors — that movie is so good — where she does this physical comedy fall up the stairs. So I think I was a little nervous, but she's everything you want her to be. She's gracious and funny and smart and cool."

This is Janney’s seventh Golden Globe nomination. In 2018, she won best performance by an actress in a supporting role in any motion picture for playing LaVona Golden in I, Tonya. The Diplomat was also nominated this year for best television drama series.

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Reis, 38, starred as Evangeline Navarro alongside Jodie Foster in True Detective: Night Country, in which she was praised for representing the Indigenous community as a Native woman herself. In September, she made history being the first Native woman to be nominated for an acting Emmy for the same role.

In March, Reis opened up about the similarities between her and her character, whom creator Issa López made an Alaskan Native after learning that rural Alaska was largely populated with Iñupiaq people.

"Issa took her time and really composed and created this character with so much care and so much time, and she was pretty much her stubborn little Scorpio self," she said, joking: "I had to meet her where she was at, basically.”

True Detective was also nominated for best television limited series, anthology series or motion picture made for television at the 2025 Golden Globes, and Foster received a nomination for best performance by a female actor in the show.

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