Orange is the New Black and
Transparent's Jeffrey Tambor were among the winners at
Saturday's Screen Actors Guild awards.
Tambor took home the 2016 SAG award for
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series for his
portrayal of Maura Pfefferman, a transgender woman, on Amazon's
Transparent. Maura's adult children are played by Gaby
Hoffmann, Jay Duplass and Amy Landecker, whose character is either
bisexual or gay. Judith Light and Carrie Brownstein also appear on
the comedy-drama.
Tambor dedicated his win to struggling
transgender people.
“I play Maura Pfefferman, she's very
entitled and she has a lot of money, and I would just like to
dedicate this award to the non-Maura Pfeffemans who don't have a lot
of cash for their operations, for their medicines, for their
freedom,” Tambor said.
The award for Outstanding Ensemble in a
Comedy Series went to the Netflix comedy-drama Orange is the New
Black.
Laverne Cox, a transgender actress who
plays a transgender inmate on the series, fought back tears as she
talked about her “struggle to survive.”
“I can't believe I'm here,” she
said. “I dreamed about this for a very long time and I know a
lot people like me are out there dreaming. … So many of us are just
struggling to survive and I've been there.”