Heyworth native Britt Lower won her first Emmy Award on Sunday for her role on the mind-bending Apple series Severance.
Lower plays Helly/Helena on Severance, which recently concluded its second season. Severance is about a small group of office colleagues who willingly "sever" their work lives from their personal lives, in service of a company with mysterious and important aims. The show was nominated for 27 Emmys this year, including Lower's.
Lower grew up in Heyworth and then attended Northwestern after graduating high school. Lower’s mother, Mickey, is the popular face-painter known as The Zoo Lady.
In her acceptance speech Sunday, Lower thanked several people — including one of her teachers, Connie. That appears to be a reference to Connie Link, who taught and directed at Heyworth High School and was the creative force behind the Normal Parks and Recreation Summer Theater Program for 32 years. Link died in 2008. Normal's Connie Link Amphitheatre is named for her.
Lower said she shared the Emmy, for Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series, with the entire “heroic cast and crew” on Severance.
“Thank you to my Mom and my Dad, my brother, my husband, our kids, our co-parents, our chosen family, I love you so much. Thank you for this. And thank you for Helly R, for choosing me,” she said.
