The talented actors totally transform for their roles. How many do you recognize?

Greatest Character Actors of All Time

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September 2025 TV and Streaming Premiere Dates

&quot;<a class="ipc-md-link" href="/title/tt5875444?ref_=ttch_eds_right-5_lk">Slow Horses</a>&quot; and &quot;<a class="ipc-md-link" href="/title/tt22091076?ref_=ttch_eds_right-5_lk">High Potential</a>&quot; return with new seasons this month. Check out our <a class="ipc-md-link" href="/list/ls4103534970/?ref_=ttch_eds_right-5_lk">September calendar</a> for more!

Check out our gallery of the 33 first-time performer nominees this year, as the characters they so brilliantly played and in real life.

2025 Emmys First-Time Acting Nominees

Bruno Ganz, Alexander Held, Ulrich Matthes, and Götz Otto in Downfall (2004)

Bruno Ganz and Götz Otto in Downfall (2004)

Bruno Ganz, Rolf Kanies, Götz Otto, and Christian Redl in Downfall (2004)

Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.

Götz Otto: Otto Günsche

Downfall

Götz Otto credited as playing...

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