Baby Reindeer actress Jessica Gunning was among the stars who flew the flag for Britain at the Screen Actors Guild awards in Los Angeles, but Richard Gadd once again left empty handed.
Gunning, 38, who plays a stalker in Scot Richard Gadd’s Netflix mini-series, collected the trophy for Best Female Actor in a limited series or movie.
“I feel like such a lucky bunny to be in this room, let alone be nominated,” Gunning said.
She recalled working in an office when she was starting out as an actress, and creating a vision board using PowerPoint which featured inspirational people she wanted to work with.
“Cate Blanchett, Kathy Bates and Jodie Foster were on that vision board,” she noted, referring to her fellow nominees.
“And so to be listed alongside them today, really means more to me than I can ever express.”
She added: “Thank you to everybody involved in Baby Reindeer for changing my life, and thank you to Richard Gadd for making my dreams come true.”
Gadd, however, lost out on the equivalent award in the Best Male category.
Gunning’s win came despite Scots lawyer Fiona Harvey, 60, taking Netflix to court in the US for defamation.
She has claimed the show, which begins with the screen credit “this is a true story”, is based on her.
Harvey is suing the streaming giant for £130 million in damages. Netflix has vowed to defend Gadd’s right to tell his story
Conclave was the biggest winner at the awards bash held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Sunday.
The drama, based on the novel by Robert Harris about the selection of a new Pope, won the ceremony’s top prize, best ensemble cast.
British actor Ralph Fiennes accepted Conclave’s prize, thanking director Edward Berger for his “perception, insight and care”.
Other winners included Demi Moore for Substance and Timothée Chalamet for A Complete Unknown.
Earlier in the ceremony, Fiennes’ co-star Isabella Rossellini said the film’s cast “want to wish Pope Francis a quick recovery”.
The 88-year old head of the Catholic Church remains in a critical condition in hospital with kidney failure, the Vatican has announced.
The SAG winners are voted for by fellow actors.
Meanwhile, Shogun swept the TV drama categories, with individual prizes for its stars Hiroyuki Sanada and Anna Sawai.
“I’m very happy, but also kind of sad, because this is probably the last time I’m able to celebrate the work with you guys,” Sawai told her co-stars from the stage.
Accepting the TV drama ensemble award, Sanada said: “It was a great journey, and 70% Japanese with subtitles, it must have been a big gamble.
“But Shogun and this award is showing us that acting is a universal language.”
Best comedy series went to Only Murders In The Building, with its star Selena Gomez appearing shocked to have won as she accepted the award.
“We never win, this is so weird,” she said. “I am so grateful, the writers, everyone deserves this, I’m bringing this back to New York for season five.”
The ceremony was hosted by Nobody Wants This star Kristen Bell, who opened by welcoming the Los Angeles firefighters who were in the audience.
The Los Angeles Fire Department workers were invited to the event in recognition of their service during the city’s recent wildfires which left 29 people dead and thousands of homes destroyed.
Veteran actress Jane Fonda was this year’s recipient of the lifetime achievement prize, the acting union’s highest honour.
“I love acting, we get to open people’s minds to new ideas, take them beyond what they understand of the world, and help them laugh when things are rough,” she said.
“And for a woman like me, who grew up in the 40s and 50s when women weren’t supposed to have opinions and get angry, acting gave me a chance to play angry women with opinions, which as you know is a stretch for me,” she joked.
“I’m a big believer in unions, they have our backs, they bring us into community and they give us power. This is really important right now when workers’ power is being attacked and community is being weakened.”
In an impassioned speech which indirectly referenced political turmoil, Fonda concluded: “We mustn’t kid ourselves about what is happening.
“We must not isolate, we must stay in community, help the vulnerable, we must find a way to project an inspiring vision of the future.”