Arts & Entertainment

Emmy Win For Lincoln-Sudbury High School Grad

Take that Chris Evans. "Succession" star Jeremy Strong won a top award at the Emmys on Sunday.

Jeremy Strong and Gillie Strong attend the 25th Annual Critics' Choice Awards at Barker Hangar on Jan. 12.
Jeremy Strong and Gillie Strong attend the 25th Annual Critics' Choice Awards at Barker Hangar on Jan. 12. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images)

SUDBURY, MA — For perhaps the first time in the school's history, a Lincoln-Sudbury graduate has won an Emmy Award for acting.

Jeremy Strong took home the award for best lead actor in a drama series for playing Kendall Roy in the HBO series "Succession," which details the pratfalls of a family in charge of a billion-dollar media company.

Strong, 41, was born and partially raised in Jamaica Plain, but his parents moved to Sudbury when he was still in school. In a GQ article, Strong said he was a "ham" of an actor while at Lincoln-Sudbury. He graduated in 1997.

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"I think I had a death scene in some play that I elongated to be, like, eight minutes long" he said.

After studying acting at Yale, Strong began a career in theater. He later went on to roles in movies like "Zero Dark Thirty," the Whitey Bulger movie "Black Mass" and "The Big Short."

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Lincoln-Sudbury's other famous grad, Chris Evans, has won a number of awards, but so far no Emmys.


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