According to Deadline, last September, 16-year-old Owen Cooper (Film Club, Wuthering Heights) became the youngest actor to have won an Emmy for acting.  Tonight, Cooper broke another record and became the youngest winner in the Best Supporting Actor category for the Golden Globes. Cooper won for his supporting role in Netflix’s Adolescence. In 2010, Chris Colfer (Ridley Jones, the Potters) won for the show Glee when he was 20 years old.

In addition to being the youngest in his category, he also became the second youngest male Golden Globes winner of all time, writes Deadline. Ricky Schroder (Dolly Parton’s Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love, Our Wild Hearts) remains the youngest at nine years old. In 1990, he won the New Star Of The Year in the Motion Picture category for the film The Champ.

Deadline noted that the other nominees included Billy Crudup (Jay Kelly, Donnybrook) from The Morning Show, Walton Goggins (Fallout, The Unicorn) and Jason Issacs (Heavy Weight, Juliet & Romeo) from The White Lotus, Tramell Tillman (Ramble on, Barron’s Cove) from Severance and Cooper’s Adolescene costar, Ashley Walters (Reload, A Thousand Blows). 

As Cooper accepted his award, he said, “Standing here at the Golden Globes does not feel real, whatsoever. What an incredible journey me and my family have been put through,” via Deadline. He continued, “We are forever grateful…I thought, I might be ok, I might be awful, I never know. So, I took a risk and I went to drama classes. I was the only boy there. It was embarrassing, but I got through it. I’m still very much an apprentice. I’m still learning every day, I’m still learning from people that are sat in front of me, that inspired me. It’s mad what’s going on.”

According to Deadline, Cooper will next be seen in the upcoming adaptation of Wuthering Heights, starring Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein, Euphoria) and Margot Robbie (A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, Barbie).