Joy Sunday was on the phone with producers when her name came up in the Emmy nominations.
The actress earned her first Emmy nomination in the supporting actress category for her performance as Agent Jodie Plumb in DTF St. Louis, the limited series that also received 13 total nominations, including for best limited or anthology series. The 2026 Emmy nominations were announced July 8.
As The Hollywood Reporter noted, Sunday learned the news alongside the rest of the cast.
"It was all happening very quickly," Sunday said. "Gosh, I was actually on the phone with [series creator] Steve [Conrad]'s assistant/co-producers when it all happened, and then my phone just kind of rang up, and the entire cast is all in the group chat with the producers, so pretty much everyone [found out] at the same time. It really speaks to the kind of family feel we had on set. We were all just celebrating together."
Sunday has appeared on Netflix's Emmy-winning comedy Wednesday and Blank Slate Pictures' Yas Kween. But DTF St. Louis is where she earned her first Emmy recognition.
"I really have so much faith in this show. It's an honor and a gift to be recognized for my work on it, but amongst everything, it's the fact that everybody's gotten recognition that's just so beautiful; I'm really happy for everyone," she said. "Working on the set was my dream job. Of course, there's so much that makes that meaningful, but to be recognized by the [TV] Academy on top of it was just the cream of the crop."
Her co-stars Linda Cardellini, Richard Jenkins, David Harbour and Jason Bateman all received acting nominations as well. Working with Bateman was something Sunday had thought about long before she was cast.
"Almost a year to the date of when I auditioned, I had texted my manager, 'I want to shadow Jason Bateman,' and, in a sense, I ended up doing that," she said.
Her first day working with him came after a red-eye flight from the set of Wednesday, with no sleep. "I had flown in on a red-eye from Wednesday, had no sleep, and was about to spend a straight week interrogating Jason Bateman," she said with a laugh. "And it was seamless. It speaks to how easygoing and warm the energy on set was. Working opposite Jason and Richard Jenkins just all came together. I'm so grateful to both of them for being such fantastic scene partners."
Sunday also left the set with a collection of keepsakes. "That was very much a Christmas came early kind of set. There are sweaters, T-shirts, keychains. I think I made Richard some golf balls that say 'Indiana Jones Jack Off Classics.' There are so many different mementos from that. I've got a hat here. There are so many things that I've kept," she said.
DTF St. Louis is an HBO limited series. The Emmy ceremony date was not included in the available information.
