Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Performer

The Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Performer in a Preschool, Children's or Young Teen Program is an award that honors performances in both television series and made-for-television/streaming films. The category was established at the 1st Children's and Family Emmy Awards in 2022 and is open to performers of all genders. The inaugural recipient of the award was Nonso Anozie for his role as Tommy Jepperd in the Netflix series Sweet Tooth. The current holder of the award is Amanda Lawrence, who won the 3rd Children's and Family Emmy Awards for her role as Matron Shipley in the BYU TV historical drama series Malory Towers.

Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Performer in a Preschool, Children's or Young Teen Program
Awarded for	Outstanding Supporting Performance in a Preschool, Children's or Young Teen Program
Country	United States
Presented by	Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
First award	2022
Currently held by	Amanda Lawrence, Malory Towers (2024)
Website	theemmys.tv/childrens/

Background

On November 17, 2021, the NATAS announced the creation of the Children's and Family Emmy Awards to recognize the best in children's and family television. The organization cited an "explosive growth in the quantity and quality of children’s and family programming" as justification for a dedicated ceremony. Many categories of the awards were previously presented at the Daytime Emmy Awards.^[1] Performers in programming aimed towards children and young people were previously honored with the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in Children's Programming, which was presented under various names however, following the announcement of the establishment of the Children's and Family Emmy Awards, these categories were discontinued.

The original name for the category was Outstanding Supporting Performance in a Preschool, Children's or Young Teen Program, and the award received its current name as of the 3rd Children's and Family Emmy Awards.^[2]

Winners and nominations

Inaugural recipient Nonso Anozie.

2020s

Year	Actor	Role	Program	Network	Refs
2022 (1st)	Nonso Anozie	Tommy Jepperd	Sweet Tooth	Netflix	[3][4][5][6]
	Adeel Akhtar	Aditya Singh	Sweet Tooth	Netflix
	Yasmin Finney	Elle Argent	Heartstopper
	William Gao	Tao Xu
	Lisa Kudrow	Aunt Heidi	Better Nate Than Ever	Disney+
2023 (2nd)	Adeel Akhtar	Dr. Aditya Singh	Sweet Tooth	Netflix	[7][8]
	Nonso Anozie	Tommy Jeppard	Sweet Tooth	Netflix
	Kal Penn	Simon Choksi/Santa	The Santa Clauses	Disney+
	Neil Sandilands	General Abbot	Sweet Tooth	Netflix
	Catherine Zeta-Jones	Billie Pearce	National Treasure: Edge of History	Disney+
2024 (3rd)	Amanda Lawrence	Matron Shipley	Malory Towers	BYU TV	[9][10]
	Adam Copeland	Ares	Percy Jackson and the Olympians	Disney+
	Elizabeth Mitchell	Carol/Mrs. Claus	The Santa Clauses
	Sarah Rafferty	Katherine Walter	My Life with the Walter Boys	Netflix
	Lance Reddick	Zeus	Percy Jackson and the Olympians	Disney+
	Eric Stonestreet	Magnus Antas/The Mad Santa	The Santa Clauses

Performers with multiple nominations

2 nominations

• Adeel Akhtar
• Nonso Anozie

Programs with multiple nominations

5 nominations

• Sweet Tooth

3 nominations

• The Santa Clauses

2 nominations

• Heartstopper
• Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Networks with multiple nominations

8 nominations

• Netflix

7 nominations

• Disney+

Superlatives

Superlative	Performer	Program	Year	Age
Oldest Nominee	Lance Reddick	Percy Jackson and the Olympians	2024	60
Youngest Nominee	Yasmin Finney	Heartstopper	2022	19