Niecy Nash accepted the award for finest supporting actor in a film or miniseries on the Critics’ Choice Awards with an emotional speech. The actor performed Jeffrey Dahmer’s neighbor Glenda Cleveland in Ryan Murphy’s “Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” and in her speech, she seemed again on her journey within the leisure trade, going again to the place all of it started.
“When I made a decision to develop into an actor — I noticed myself doing drama,” she stated on the Jan 15. occasion. “They stated, keep in your comedy lane. Some individuals need to depart you the place they meet you. I did what I knew to do: I cried, and I advised my mom,” she continued. “I stated, ‘Don’t you assume I’m dramatic actress?’ She stated, ‘Girl, I do not, however you might be. You discover one of the best class on this city, and I’ll work additional time to pay for it.’ Thank you, mama. All you want is one,” she stated. She went on to thank Evan Peters, Ryan Murphy, and Netflix. “You picked me up after I was gutted from this work,” she stated, occurring to thank Cleveland herself. “I share this award with Glenda Cleveland. On this evening, we’re each absolutely seen. And lastly, to everyone who doubted this Black lady and advised me what I could not do . . . in your face!”
Previously, Nash opened up concerning the difficulties of taking part in Cleveland in an October social media publish, writing, “Dahmer was my most difficult job to this point . . . Had to lean into my pleasure HARD through the filming course of.” She went on to thank her costar Peters, her 28-year-old daughter, Donielle, and her spouse, Jessica Betts. “My love JB [Betts] was my rock,” Nash wrote within the caption.