Insecure star Yvonne Orji will host this 12 months’s Worldwide Emmy Awards, organizers introduced Friday.
The Nigerian-American actress and comic, a Primetime Emmy nominee herself for her efficiency as Molly within the hit HBO collection, will current the forty ninth Worldwide Emmy Awards in entrance of a crowd of worldwide and U.S. business company on the Nice Corridor of Casa Cipriani in New York on Monday, November 22.
Orji current 1-hour stand-up particular, Momma, I Made It, which she shot in Washington DC and Nigeria, premiered on HBO final 12 months. Previous to the taping, she toured the U.S. along with her act, taking part in to sold-out exhibits in New York and Los Angeles. She has opened for the likes of Chris Rock in such venues as Madison Sq. Backyard and the Barclays Heart. Orji revealed her first guide: Bamboozled by Jesus: How God Tricked Me into the Lifetime of My Goals, in early 2020. She’s at present in growth on the autobiographical comedy venture First Gen at Disney+, which Orji will govt produce.
Orji additionally hosted the second version of Amazon Prime Video’s Yearly Departed comedy particular, which this 12 months brings collectively a roster of all-female comics to roast. Yearly Departed premieres worldwide on Amazon in December.
Becoming a member of Orji on the Worldwide Emmy stage this 12 months shall be a solid of presenters together with Vanessa Williams, Aidan Quinn, Brian d’Arcy James, Technique Man, Piper Perabo, Emeraude Toubia, Wilson Cruz, Felipe Santana and Angélica.
NBA star Dirk Nowitzki will current this 12 months’s Worldwide Emmy Directorate Award to Thomas Bellut, director-general of German public broadcaster ZDF.
A file of 24 international locations are represented throughout the 44 nominees for this 12 months’s Worldwide Emmys, which honor excellence in tv programming worldwide. Outstanding contenders embrace AppleTV+’s Mid-East espionage collection Tehran, the French showbiz satire Name My Agent! and the ITV restricted collection Des that includes Scottish star David Tennant as real-life serial killer Dennis Nielsen.
The 2021 Worldwide Emmys shall be an in-person occasion following COVID-19 security protocols and shall be carried reside on the Worldwide Emmy Academy’s web site on www.iemmy.television from 7 pm Japanese Time on November 22.
