Emmys 2025: Noah Wyle wins 1st Emmy for lead actor in a drama series
Noah Wyle is an Emmy winner.
The actor won his first Emmy on Sunday night for lead actor in a drama series for "The Pitt."
In his acceptance speech, he called the win "a dream" and dedicated it to health care workers.
"If anybody is going on shift tonight, or are coming off shift tonight, thank you for being in that job," he said. "This is for you."
Wyle also thanked the cast and crew of "The Pitt" saying, "You bring your A-game every day, which inspires me to bring mine."
He also gave a shout-out to his children, parents, step-parents and his wife, Sarah, who he said, "owns half of this, not just because it's California law, but because she earned it."
Also nominated in the category were Sterling K. Brown for "Paradise," Gary Oldman for "Slow Horses," Pedro Pascal for "The Last of Us" and Adam Scott for "Severance."
Prior to his role on the "The Pitt," which aims to show the challenges faced by health care workers at a hospital in Pittsburgh, Wyle had been nominated five times for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series for his role on the long-running series, "ER."
He starred in that series from 1994 to 2009.
Like in "ER," Wyle portrays a doctor in the HBO Max drama series: Dr. Michael "Robby" Robinavitch, an emergency room physician.
In an interview with Variety in April, Wyle said that the "The Pitt" aims to honor medical professionals.
"These people sacrifice so much in the service of others that I find it absolutely infuriating that their expertise is being called into question," he told Variety. "I find it infuriating that we still can't come to a consensus that masks cut down on transmission of disease. I find it infuriating that we still won't acknowledge that vaccines are an important way of eradicating disease. I find it all infuriating that we are where we are right now. So I wanted to make a show that brings back into sharp focus what an objective medical fact is."
"The Pitt" also took home the Emmy on Sunday night for outstanding drama series.
R. Scott Gemmill, the show's creator and showrunner, took the stage on behalf of the show when it won the award and dedicated the Emmy to health care workers and frontline first responders.
"Respect them, protect them, trust them. Thank you!" he added.
Katherine LaNasa also won the Emmy for outstanding supporting actress in a drama series for her role in the show as Dana Evans.
