Jean Smart wins fifth Emmy for final season of 'Hacks' and 'Widow's Bay' wins acting awards early

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jean Smart made it a sweep with her fifth best actress award in a comedy for the fifth and final season of “Hacks,” Rhea Seehorn won best actress in a drama for “Pluribus” and “Widow’s Bay” was making early waves at the 78th Emmy Awards on Monday night.No actor has ever won an Emmy every year for a series that lasted more than three seasons until Smart did it Monday.“What a ride this has been,” an emotional Smart said from the stage of the Peacock Theater after getting a standing ovation.The 75-year-old Smart has won eight Emmys overall in a career that was already more than respectable when she landed her defining role of Deborah Vance, a brash stand-up comic pushing back against age, obscurity and sexism in the HBO Max series.Seehorn plays the lone central character who takes on an alien hivemind on Apple TV’s “Pluribus,” and she rode the role to her first Emmy. The 54-year-old had been nominated twice without winning for her breakthrough role on “Better Call Saul,