Adolescence‘s Owen Cooper Is the Youngest Male Actor to Win an Emmy

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Fifteen-year-old Owen Cooper made history Sunday night by becoming the youngest male actor to win an Emmy Award. He received the award for Outstanding Supporting Actor for his role in the Netflix crime drama *Adolescence*, marking his first acting debut.

Cooper shared in his acceptance speech that he only began taking drama classes a few years ago, and he inspired viewers to try new things and challenge themselves.

Four decades after Roxana Zal, at just 14 years old, won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Special for *Something About Amelia* in 1984, this record is being revisited, according to the official Emmy Awards website.

The show *Adolescence* follows 13-year-old Jamie Miller (Cooper), who is arrested after being accused of stabbing a classmate. It received 13 Emmy nominations this year.

The show quickly became a global discussion point, raising awareness about the challenges boys face with their mental health and the concerning phenomenon of ‘incel’ culture. This came about as the character Miller reacted to being bullied online and labeled an ‘incel,’ short for ‘involuntarily celibate.’

U.K. Prime Minister Keith Starmer watched the series *Adolescence* with his family and then joined a discussion with charities and the show’s creators, Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham, to talk about potential policy changes. Netflix made the show available for free to schools in the U.K.

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2025-09-15 06:06