This year’s Daytime Emmy Awards are a week away, and we’ve got our takes on the frontrunners in the Daytime Drama categories. This past week the Television Academy released the storyline clips submitted for this year’s Daytime Emmy’s. Before the winners are announced, we’ve got our take on who should take home the trophies. The Bold and the Beautiful’s Anna Maria Horsford, Days of Our Lives‘s Kate Mansi, General Hospital‘s Finola Hughes, and The Young and the Restless‘s Stacy Haiduk and Kelly Sullivan are nominated in the Supporting Actress Category. We have our pick for the frontrunner, as well as who comes up a very close second should the Academy not share our opinion.
Best Supporting Actress also seems to, in my opinion, have a clear winner for the 2016 year. I knew Kate Mansi had skills, but she was a force to be reckoned with in her final months of playing Abigail Deveraux Dimera. Mansi played the full gamut of insanity as her character disintegrated before our very eyes. Pushed over the edge by her ex-fiancee stalking and threatening her family, Abigail’s mind could not take anymore. From the minute she decided she was going to kill Ben to her broken moments in the psychiatric ward, Mansi’s performance was infused with one pure emotion-terror. First it was fear of Ben, then it was fear of the unknown, and finally it was fear of herself. Could she trust her own mind, and more importantly, could she trust herself not to do anything that would harm her own child? Mansi had us wanting to reach beyond the screen to comfort Abigail in her darkest time.
If Mansi has to lose to anyone, let it be Finola Hughes. The GH veteran worked like crazy to pay tribute to the weight of her character’s history. In the span of one year Anna Devane lost the love of her life, said goodbye to her daughter Robin as she embarked on her own journey, and came to terms with Duke’s killer, as well as her own dark actions in the wake of all her loss. Put all of this together and you have one common theme for Anna-acceptance. Anna had to not only accept her losses, but force herself to look beyond them to the third act of her life. She had to pick herself up and tell herself that things were going to get better, that she was strong enough to find peace, love, and justice in her life. That she was able to do so and relate to Sonny Corinthos is truly remarkable.
Who do you think should win Best Supporting Actress?
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