Anthony Anderson’s Journey From ‘Black-ish’ to Hosting the 2024 Emmys

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Valerie Wu Intern “Black-ish” star Anthony Anderson is hosting the 75th annual Primetime Emmys on Jan. 15. The Compton native, who has received 11 Emmy nominations himself for his work on “Black-ish,” is no stranger to the primetime awards show.

Anderson starred as father and advertising executive Andre “Dre” Johnson on the ABC sitcom “Black-ish,” which ran from 2014 to 2022 and followed the Johnsons, a Black family navigating life in a wealthy, white neighborhood.

Anderson received seven consecutive lead actor Emmy nominations for his role on the show. In addition to serving as executive producer on “Black-ish,” Anderson also executive produced its spinoff series, “Grown-ish,” which follows the Johnsons’ children. “Anthony is such a professional.

Anthony knows everybody’s name. Anthony makes work a fun and wonderful place to be that feels like home. And it’s who he is,” Anderson’s “Black-ish” co-star Tracee Ellis Ross said of him in an interview with Variety celebrating the end of “Black-ish.” Ross played Anderson’s onscreen wife, Rainbow, for all eight seasons of the show. “What’s crazy with our show and just having that fan base, is it’s one of the few shows that’s on broadcast television right now, probably television period, that an entire family can sit down and watch and enjoy,”Anderson said about “Black-ish” in a 2017 Variety Actors on Actors conversation with Kaley Cuoco. “And it’s interesting because of the success of our show, [the rest of the cast and I] kind of were at the forefront of having other minorities tell their stories, with ‘Cristela,’ with ‘Fresh Off the Boat,’ with ‘Uncle Buck,’ and other shows that have come along since then.