Emmy Win For Lincoln-Sudbury High School Grad

Sudbury MA

21 September, 2020

8:23 AM

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SUDBURY, MA — For perhaps the first time in the school's history, a Lincoln-Sudbury graduate has won an Emmy Award for acting. Jeremy Strong took home the award for best lead actor in a drama series for playing Kendall Roy in the HBO series "Succession," which details the pratfalls of a family in charge of a billion-dollar media company. Strong, 41, was born and partially raised in Jamaica Plain, but his parents moved to Sudbury when he was still in school. In a GQ article, Strong said he was a "ham" of an actor while at Lincoln-Sudbury. He graduated in 1997. "I think I had a death scene in some play that I elongated to be, like, eight minutes long" he said. After studying acting at Yale, Strong began a career in theater. He later went on to roles in movies like "Zero Dark Thirty," the Whitey Bulger movie "Black Mass" and "The Big Short." Lincoln-Sudbury's other famous grad, Chris Evans, has won a number of awards, but so far no Emmys.