Michelle Stafford (‘Young and Restless’) on 2024 Daytime Emmy reel: It’s ‘the culmination of Phyllis spinning out’
“Maybe we’ll do a little something and celebrate our greatness like Christian LeBlanc and I always used to do when we would be nominated the same year … I think that you need that in life. You need to really, really celebrate the brightness, the great things that happen,” Michelle Stafford told Soap Opera Digest about her latest Daytime Emmy nomination for playing Phyllis on “The Young and the Restless.” Read the entire interview here.
Stafford has now been nominated 12 times for playing Phyllis, a role she originated in 1994 and has played off and on for 30 years. She has won two Emmys to date: Best Supporting Actress in 1997 and Best Actress in 2004. So it has now been 20 years since she last took home the gold. When she stepped away from “Y&R” in the mid-2010s, the role of Phyllis was taken over by another soap vet, Gina Tognoni, who also won an Emmy for the role, Best Actress in 2017.
To secure this nomination — and possibly the win — Stafford submitted a performance reel she described as “the culmination of Phyllis spinning out and then pleading to not be put in jail.” But she’s not the only actor from “Y&R” celebrating a nomination this year. Stafford is “so excited” for her on-screen daughter Allison Lanier‘s career-first bid for Best Supporting Actress. “She’s worked really, really hard. She was almost in every show, and this is her first nomination. I’m just really excited for her. She did so well.” She also sings the praises of “wonderful” “Y&R” supporting nominees Bryton James and Courtney Hope, and guest acting contender Linden Ashby as well.
Will Stafford finally get back up on the Daytime Emmy stage as a winner, though? Make your predictions here in our predictions center and find out when awards are handed out live on June 7 on CBS.
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