British actor Josh O’Conner won the Emmy award for ‘outstanding lead actor in a drama series for Netflix’s hit show “The Crown“.

The other nominees in the category were Sterling K. Brown for ‘This Is Us,’ Jonathan Majors for ‘Lovecraft Country’, Rege-Jean Page for ‘Bridgerton’, Billy Porter for ‘Pose’ and Matthew Rhys for ‘Perry Mason.’

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O’Conner plays the role of British Prince Charles in the Netflix drama series ‘The Crown’. Prince Charles was the husband of Princess Diana, apparently the protagonist of the show. 

For his work in ‘The Crown, O’Conner won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama and was nominated for a British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor.  

With his Primetime Emmys 2021 win, “The Crown” swept all four dramatic acting categories at Sunday night’s ceremony.

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O’Connor first appeared on television in 2012 as Charlie
Stephenson in Lewis and on film as a zombie in The Eschatrilogy: Book of the
Dead. Then in 2013, he appeared in Doctor Who as Piotr, in The Magnificent Eleven as
Andy, in Law & Order: UK as Rob Fellows, in The Wiper Times as Dodd, and in
London Irish as James.

O’Connor began essaying Charles, the Prince of Wales in
Season 3 of the award-winning Netflix programme The Crown. Soon after the show’s release, O’Connor was
nominated for a British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor for
his role while the cast won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding
Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2020.

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The actor’s role was continued in season 4 as well for which, he admitted that his character was horrible in that season. 

Recently, O’Connor revealed that he doesn’t know much about the Royal Family and serves as the worst spokesperson for the throne. 

“In terms of my experiences with the Royal Family, I’m the worst person to talk about the Royals. I have no idea about anything to do with the Royal Family,” he said.