“Pose” star Mj Rodriguez has earned her first Emmy Award nomination, making history as the first transgender actor to earn a nomination for a leading role. On Tuesday, the 30-year-old earned a nomination for Best Leading Actress in a Drama Series ahead of the 2021 Emmy Awards broadcast later this year. Rodriguez has been widely lauded for her role as Blanca Evangelista on the hit FX series. Later in 2020, Rodriguez penned an op-ed for Emmys.com about being a trans, Afro-Latina woman “held in a box for so long” and not seeing herself properly represented within the film and television communities. I do feel like there’s a lot of exposure around our identities as people of color, but there’s still much that needs to be done.”

Source: Huffington Post July 13, 2021 15:45 UTC