Massachusetts' Ayo Edebiri, Jennifer Coolidge take home awards at 75th Emmys

Ayo Edebiri continues to win big at this season's award shows.

Edebiri, originally from Dorchester, took home the Emmy Award for best supporting actress in a comedy series for her work in Hulu's “The Bear”.

In the acceptance speech, Edebiri thanked her parents, who attended the award show.

“Thank you so much for loving me and letting me feel beautiful and Black and proud of all that,” said Edebiri. “It’s probably not, like, a dream to immigrate to this country and have your child be like ‘I want to do improv!,’ but you’re real ones”

This was her first Emmy win, coming right on the heels of similar wins at the Critics Choice Awards and the Golden Globes last week.

“The Bear,” the FX dramedy about a contentious family and a struggling restaurant at the center of the life of a talented chef, won best comedy series for its first season. It also made a meal of the comedy acting categories, with Jeremy Allen White winning best actor and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, originally from Amherst, taking best supporting actor alongside Edebiri. All three were first-time nominees.

Instead of the usual producer speeches, Matty Matheson, a real-life elite chef who plays a kitchen newbie and repairman on “The Bear,” spoke for the show while surrounded by the cast.

“I just love restaurants so much, the good and the bad, we’re broken inside,” Matheson said before getting a long kiss on the mouth from Moss-Bachrach.

“The Bear” feasted as the night's top comedy, “Succession” secured its legacy with its third best drama series award, and the two shows about squabbling families dominated the acting awards at Monday night's Emmys.

“Succession" won six Emmys overall including best supporting actor in a drama for Matthew Macfadyen and best writing in a drama for show creator Jesse Armstrong.

The HBO saga of the dysfunctional generations of a maladjusted media empire, won the top prize for its fourth and final season. It also won best actress in a drama for Sarah Snook and best actor in a drama for Kieran Culkin.

“We all put our all into it, and the bar was set so high,” Snook said.

The only drama acting category it didn't win was supporting actress, taken for the second time by Norwell native Jennifer Coolidge of “The White Lotus.”

“I had a little dream in my little town and everyone said it was impractical and it was far-fetched,” said Coolidge, accepting her award. “But it did happen after all, so don't give up on your dream.”

Quinta Brunson of “Abbott Elementary" and Steven Yeun and Ali Wong of “Beef" also had historic wins at the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards, in a ceremony that was finally held four months late after a turbulent year of strikes in Hollywood.

Brunson won best actress in a comedy for the show she created, ABC's “Abbott Elementary," becoming the first Black woman to win the award in more than 40 years and the first from a network show to win it in more than a decade.

“I am so happy to be able to live my dream and act out comedy,” Brunson said during her acceptance, fighting back tears.

Brunson had won a writing Emmy for “Abbott Elementary,” her mockumentary about a predominantly Black and chronically underfunded grade school in Philadelphia, but this was her first for acting. Isabel Sanford of “The Jeffersons” was the only previous Black woman to win the category in 1981.

The show, held on the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday, saw three Black women win major awards: Brunson, Edebiri and Niecy Nash-Betts, who won best supporting actress in a limited series for “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story."

On the Netflix show, Nash-Betts played a neighbor of the serial killer whose complaints to authorities about his behavior go unheeded.

"I accept this award on behalf of every Black and brown woman who has gone unheard and over-policed," she said.

“Everybody having fun at the chocolate Emmys tonight?” host Anthony Anderson said during the show. “We are killing it tonight! ... This is like MLK Day and Juneteenth all rolled up in one!”

“Beef” from Netflix won best limited series, while Yeun and Wong became the first Asian Americans to win in their categories — Yeun for best actor in a limited series and Wong for best actress. Creator Lee Sung Jin won Emmys for writing and directing. It had eight Emmys overall after three wins at the Creative Arts Emmys.

With reporting from the WBUR Newsroom.