Almost everyone was still a potential winner Saturday, as nominees
stepped out to celebrate in advance of Monday's Emmy Awards ceremony.Festivities began early afternoon, with the annual BAFTA L.A. TV Tea event, sponsored by the Los Angeles branch of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, which brought out, among dozens of others, nominees from the hit Brit drama "Downton Abbey."
"It's great fun because you get to see everyone before the big day," said actress Michelle Dockery, who portrays the Abbey's Lady Mary Crawley. "It's also ("Downton" actress and nominee) Joanne Froggatt's birthday," Dockery continued, sliding into a joke: "So, it's great! They're putting on all these parties for her."
Noted Froggatt, nominated this year for playing Lady's Maid Anna Bates, "I think there's four possible parties tonight. I don't think I'll make all four. I'll see how my stamina holds out. But, then, tomorrow is quite quiet, just the evening-before party and then the big day."
Among Saturday's other major Emmy-related bashes: the Television Academy's performers-nominee reception as well as the "Variety" and Women in Film pre-Emmy celebration.
Like Dockery and Froggatt, actress Mayim Bialik is an Emmy veteran. She has three nominations, but no wins, for her portrayal of neurobiologist Amy Farrah Fowler on the sitcom "The Big Bang Theory."...