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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 273501" data-attributes="member: 27">&quot;Younger Actor&quot; used to have male and female categories, but the organizers wisely combined the categories as the number of soaps shrunk to four and the shows ignored the original intent of the categories.&nbsp; Those awards were typically where the &quot;future stars&quot; first made their mark.&nbsp; Many went on to greater stardom, and many stayed in daytime and moved up into the Supporting and Lead categories as their skills and fame grew.&nbsp; However in recent years, in the shows&#039; eagerness to have another Emmy winner on staff to brag about, they would nominate any young actor who fit the category stipulations, likely regardless of whether they felt the performance was comparable&nbsp; (think: five year-olds with limited dialogue versus twenty year-old breakout heart-throbs in romantic stories).&nbsp; When they turned Younger Actor into a unisex category (like Guest Performer had been for most of its existence), it forced the shows to think a bit more deeply about who should get nominated.&nbsp; There have still been a good number of nominees who probably would not get recognized if they submitted in other categories, but this group is pretty solid.&nbsp; Sydney Mikayla of GH has really impressed me in her performances, reminding me a bit of the &quot;rising star&quot; origins of this category, and Alyvia Allyn Lind already has a foot out the door headed to Hollywood, so it would be most fitting if either of those two took the award.&nbsp; But Katelyn MacMullen (as GH&#039;s Willow) had some great material that might push her into the running if the judges don&#039;t mind her character being out of the &quot;young&quot; realm (her character should be over 25 by now, even if the actress might not be).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 273501, member: 27"] "Younger Actor" used to have male and female categories, but the organizers wisely combined the categories as the number of soaps shrunk to four and the shows ignored the original intent of the categories. Those awards were typically where the "future stars" first made their mark. Many went on to greater stardom, and many stayed in daytime and moved up into the Supporting and Lead categories as their skills and fame grew. However in recent years, in the shows' eagerness to have another Emmy winner on staff to brag about, they would nominate[I] any [/I]young actor who fit the category stipulations, likely regardless of whether they felt the performance was comparable (think: five year-olds with limited dialogue versus twenty year-old breakout heart-throbs in romantic stories). When they turned Younger Actor into a unisex category (like Guest Performer had been for most of its existence), it forced the shows to think a bit more deeply about who should get nominated. There have still been a good number of nominees who probably would not get recognized if they submitted in other categories, but this group is pretty solid. Sydney Mikayla of GH has really impressed me in her performances, reminding me a bit of the "rising star" origins of this category, and Alyvia Allyn Lind already has a foot out the door headed to Hollywood, so it would be most fitting if either of those two took the award. But Katelyn MacMullen (as GH's Willow) had some great material that might push her into the running if the judges don't mind her character being out of the "young" realm (her character should be over 25 by now, even if the actress might not be). [/QUOTE]

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