Sarah Pidgeon Scores Emmy Nod for FX's Love Story
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- Sarah Pidgeon scored a Lead Actress Emmy nomination for her portrayal of Carolyn Bessette in the FX limited series Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, telling Deadline from Paris she's 'trying to metabolize the really happy, wonderful news.'
- Love Story itself was nominated for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series, with Constance Zimmer earning a Supporting Actress nod for playing Carolyn and Lauren Bessette's mother Ann Messina Freeman.
- Paul Anthony Kelly co-stars as JFK Jr. opposite Pidgeon, with Naomi Watts as Jackie Kennedy, Grace Gummer as Caroline Kennedy, and Alessandro Nivola as Calvin Klein; the series was created by Connor Hines and produced by Ryan Murphy.
- The show chronicles JFK Jr. and Bessette's romance from their 1990s Manhattan meeting through the plane crash that killed them and Bessette's sister Lauren, with Pidgeon calling the ensemble 'a symphony, it's an orchestra. None of this is like a solo.'
- Pidgeon has wrapped her Australian shoot on Honeymoon With Harry alongside Kevin Costner and Jake Gyllenhaal, describing Costner as having 'amazing, amazing stories' she absorbed on set.
- Pidgeon publicly expressed interest in working with Lena Dunham, calling Girls 'one of my comfort shows' and saying she 'would jump at the chance' to collaborate with the filmmaker.
- The 78th Primetime Emmy Awards airs Monday, September 14, with the Creative Arts Emmys split across September 5 and 6.
Why it matters: Pidgeon's Lead Actress nod — alongside Zimmer's Supporting Actress pick and the show's Outstanding Limited Series nomination — makes Love Story a multi-category Emmy player, validating Ryan Murphy's bet on the Kennedy-Bessette true-life romance and elevating Pidgeon from her prior Tony nomination for Stereophonic into the upper tier of prestige-TV talent.
