The nomination makes Rodriguez the first transgender member of the 'Pose' cast to receive official recognition from awards season heavyweights, despite being the heart and soul of the acclaimed show.
, which just wrapped its third and final season, stars Rodriguez as Blanca Evangelista, the House Mother to a ragtag crew of teens in New York City’s ballroom culture scene who’s pursuing her dream of becoming a nurse. In the three years that it aired on FX, the series repeatedly made history—starting even before it aired, by assembling the largest cast of transgender actors to star as series regulars in a scripted series ever.
While she initially cried upon receiving the news, at that point, she was grinning so hard that her cheeks hurt. “This goes [to] my Black community, my Latina community, my Latino community, my trans community, and my women who have been fighting since day one—this is for us,” she continued. “I’ve been wanting to express, and feel, and spread love all my life, and I’ve always wanted to spread it through my art, and I finally feel like I can do it. And I finally feel like people are seeing it.
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