Youngest Emmy winners ever span from a fourteen-year-old limited-series breakthrough to a fifteen-year-old streaming drama star. This six-slide guide ranks every major Primetime age record the Television Academy still recognizes today.

Roxana Zal was fourteen when Something About Amelia won her the Supporting Actress limited-series Emmy in 1984. She remains the youngest Primetime Emmy acting winner in Television Academy history — a record Owen Cooper did not break in 2025.

Keshia Knight Pulliam was six when The Cosby Show earned her a Supporting Comedy Actress nomination in 1986. She is the youngest Primetime Emmy nominee ever — a milestone distinct from winning a competitive trophy on ceremony night.

Owen Cooper won Supporting Actor in a Limited Series for Adolescence at age fifteen in 2025. He became the youngest male acting Emmy winner ever — breaking Scott Jacoby's age-sixteen record from the 1973 ceremony.

Scott Jacoby won at sixteen in 1973. Zendaya became the youngest Lead Drama Actress winner at twenty-four in 2020. Michael J. Fox took Lead Comedy Actor at twenty-five in 1986 — category records on the youngest Emmy winners ever board.