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Sept. 22, 2013 / 8:31 PM / Updated Sept. 23, 2013 at 8:43 AM

'Nurse Jackie' star Merritt Wever wins Best Supporting Actress Emmy

Actress Merritt Wever holds the award she won for "Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series -- Nurse Jackie" at the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards at Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles on September 22, 2013. UPI/Danny Moloshok

1 of 2 | Actress Merritt Wever holds the award she won for "Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series -- Nurse Jackie" at the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards at Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles on September 22, 2013. UPI/Danny Moloshok | License Photo

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- "Nurse Jackie" co-star Merritt Wever won the Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in Los Angeles Sunday night.

"Thank you so much. I gotta go. Bye," the stunned actress said as she collected the first prize presented during the show.

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"Merritt Wever, best speech ever," Neil Patrick Harris, the show's host, quipped when the ceremony returned from a commercial break right after Wever's ultra-brief acceptance speech.

Wever beat out fellow nominees -- Mayim Bialik for "The Big Bang Theory," Jane Lynch for "Glee," Sofia Vergara and Julie Bowen for "Modern Family," Jane Krakowski for "30 Rock" and Anna Chlumsky for "Veep" -- for the honor.

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