“Paradise”'s Julianne Nicholson Has This 1 Regret from Her First Emmy Win: How She Plans to Fix It This Year (Exclusive)

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Julianne Nicholson astatine nan Emmys successful 2021 (left) and astatine nan Creative Arts Emmys successful 2025. Credit :

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NEED TO KNOW

  • Julianne Nicholson reveals to PEOPLE her 1 regret from her first Emmy triumph successful 2021 for Mare of Easttown
  • The character is already an Emmy victor this twelvemonth for her domiciled successful Hacks and is up for different for her domiciled successful Paradise
  • Should she win, it would make her 3 for 3 successful position of her Emmy nominations

Julianne Nicholson has a scheme for her Emmys acceptance if she wins connected Sunday night.

Speaking exclusively pinch PEOPLE astatine nan inaugural Televerse Festival successful Los Angeles connected Aug. 16, nan actress, 54, revealed nan 1 regret she has from her first Emmy win: not giving her husband, Jonathan Cake, a due shout-out.

Nicholson vowed to "talk much about" hubby Jonathan Cake, whom she joined successful 2004 and pinch whom she shares 2 children, should she triumph for her domiciled arsenic Samantha "Sinatra" Redmond successful Paradise.

From left: Jonathan Cake, Kate Nicholson, James O. Nicholson Jr and Julianne Nicholson.

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"I consciousness for illustration nan first time, I was truthful nervous," she told PEOPLE of her past triumph for her domiciled arsenic Lori Ross connected Mare of Easttown successful 2021. "There's a batch of group to mention and I consciousness for illustration my hubby sewage short shrift."

"Honestly, I can't do it without him," she added of Cake, whom she has been joined to since 2004 and shares 2 children with. "And I felt bad astir that."

This year, Nicholson is nominated successful nan Outstanding Supporting Actress successful a Drama Series class alongside The Pitt's Katherine LaNasa, Severance's Patricia Arquette, and The White Lotus' Carrie Coon, Parker Posey, Natasha Rothwell and Aimee Lou Wood.

Julianne Nicholson successful 'Paradise'.

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Should she win, it would make her 3 for 3 successful position of her Emmy nominations.

In summation to her past triumph for Mare of Easttown, Nicholson picked up an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress successful a Comedy Series past play astatine nan Creative Arts Emmys for her domiciled arsenic Mary Alice — a.k.a. Dance Mom — connected Hacks.

Nicholson, who will beryllium bringing Cake arsenic her day to nan Emmys this weekend, besides told PEOPLE that getting fresh for nan prestigious awards show is "fun."

"Yeah, I emotion nan full thing. My hairsbreadth and constitution squad I've been moving pinch for 10 years and they make maine laughter truthful much," she said. "So it ever feels beautiful relaxed, actually."

"Honestly, it conscionable feels for illustration a celebration. I consciousness for illustration I wish nan awards ne'er moreover had to happen. We could each conscionable unrecorded pinch a nomination," she added. "No, I consciousness really fortunate and it's nosy to spell backmost and conscionable beryllium reunited pinch group you mightiness not person seen for a while."

Julianne Nicholson astatine nan TV Academy's Inaugural Televerse Festival connected Aug. 16, 2025.

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Paradise has been renewed for a 2nd season. Nicholson plays Sinatra, nan world's richest self-made female and nan personification making each nan calls successful a sprawling underground bunker successful Colorado a fewer years aft a last day event.

Sinatra is 1 of nan group Secret Service supplier Xavier Brown (Sterling K. Brown) suspects of sidesplitting nan president, James Marsden's Cal Bradford. This investigation is nan cardinal enigma astatine nan bosom of nan show.

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Paradise tin beryllium streamed connected Hulu, and nan 77th yearly Primetime Emmy Awards aerial unrecorded from nan Peacock Theater successful Los Angeles connected Sunday, Sept. 14 astatine 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT connected CBS and Paramount+.