35 years after Katie Bates buried Oscar conventions conquer the award for best actress for horror filmShe now defies the norms of Emmy. At Emmy's 77th Awards this year, Bates was nominated for her lead role in Matlock, a legal drama series that is loosely presented as a gender version of 1986 TV -Show of the same name. There are a lot The differences between the series, but the portrayal of Bates on Matthey scratched a similar itching with Andy Griffith's Ben Matlock.

Bates did not win its Emmy this year; The award for the remarkable lead actress in the Drama Series instead went to Brit Dolna for her role as Helly and Jelena in Season 2 of "Grade". However, Bates made history just to be nominated: how Diversity He noted last week, at the age of 77, she is now "the oldest nominated Emmy in the category of extraordinary drama actress".

Bates took the record from previous actresses like Angela Lansbury (who was nominated at the age of 71 for her role in "Murder, wrote" in 1996) and Sicili Tyson (who was nominated at the age of 71 for "sweet justice" in 1995).

Not only did Bates set a new record, but Matlock has already been renewed for the second season that will premiere in October. If the second season is well accepted as the first, there is a decent chance that Bates can break its record in 2026.

"I want it," Bates told "Diversity" when it was told about her Emmy's record statistics. "It's true, above all, and it's an honor badge. It's just the main power of all that."

Bates was especially happy about the nomination because her role "Matlock" came at a time when she thought her acting career was over. Good leading roles are harder to find for older people in Hollywood, but especially for women, which may be why Bates said she was "ready to hang" before Matlock's first season come together. Now she not only proves that she is still capable of securing a performance of writing at the same time with her previous roles, but that she really has a strong audience for TV shows in the center of older women.

Perhaps its biggest point of pride is in step with the Matlock production schedule. It is a network show with about 20 episodes every season posted on a consistent annual basis, which means that Bates' working life is probably more problematic than having to deal with many of what younger actors working on streaming (their seasons) should cope.

"Her endurance and her ability to stand in the center of the requested network show, it's incredible," Matlock creator Ennen Snyder Urmann told Bates. "We're going to deep depths."