Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen have been honored with the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award on the 2025 Emmys.
The Cheers alum, 77, and the Oscar winner, 72, turned the primary couple to obtain the accolade throughout the Sunday, September 14, awards present on the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. Danson's The Good Place costar Kristen Bell and the present's creator, Michael Schur, offered them with the honour, calling Steenburgen “each an excellent actress and devoted philanthropist” and Danson “tall and from San Diego, in response to a bio his publicist despatched over since neither of us is conversant in his appearing work.”
The duo put jokes apart to name Danson and Steenburgen “an unstoppable drive each on display screen and off” earlier than taking part in a spotlight reel of their charity work through the years.
“[This award] is known as after a person who's very identify was Hope, and that's what Bob Hope delivered to folks for 50 years as he traveled the world entertaining our troops,” Danson started their acceptance speech. “We ship our like to his household and our thanks. … There isn't a honor that may imply extra to Mary and me than this one, and the truth that it's been given to each of us means the world.”
Steenburgen continued by sharing that the couple receiving the award would have “meant the world” to their mother and father as a result of it's about “residing the lives they taught us to stay.” She informed a narrative about her father, a prepare conductor, who “performed by all the principles at work moreover one. When he got here throughout a person down on his luck and hiding in a boxed automotive, he didn't put them off the prepare. He let him journey. And though I used to be a toddler, I understood the wonder in that act of kindness.”
Danson, for his half, shared that his father was an archeologist who “spent most of his life digging up and discovering the remnants of previous cultures.” He defined that his dad's job taught him that “this life is not only about us. Lots of people have come earlier than us and lots of people will come after us. It's about our stewardship of what we've been given.”
Steenburgen continued, “If it's true that life is made up of two feelings, love and worry, the world's somewhat out of stability proper now. We don't need to stay in worry. So we work for organizations that transfer the dimensions away from worry and put us smack dab in the midst of love.”
The couple concluded their speech by thanking their youngsters and grandchildren, whom they known as their “greatest lecturers” and their “beloved neighborhood.”
“Collectively we now have a sacred task to remind the world of its goals, its failures, its laughter, its braveness and most particularly its hope,” Steenburgen stated, to which Danson added, “The 2 of us really feel very blessed to spend our lives doing simply that with you. Thanks for this honor.”
The Bob Hope Humanitarian Award is offered by the Tv Academy's Board of Governors to people within the media trade “whose deeds and actions have a long-lasting influence on communities and whose philanthropic efforts exemplify Bob Hope's decades-long altruism and optimistic influence on society,” in response to a July press launch.
Danson is a longtime environmentalist and ocean conservation activist, whereas Steenburgen has collaborated with varied organizations equivalent to No Child Hungry, Oceana and the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Basis. The couple — who've been married since October 1995 — are additionally the cofounders of Angels at Danger, a nonprofit that gives sources for kids, youngsters and households who're in danger for drug and alcohol abuse in addition to outspoken LGBTQ+ allies.
“Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen have lengthy used their voices — and their hearts — to champion causes that uplift the planet and its folks,” Cris Abrego, chair of the Tv Academy, stated in a July assertion. “From environmental advocacy to humanitarian reduction, they lead with grace, integrity and objective. The Tv Academy is proud to honor their extraordinary legacy of service with the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award.”
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This marks the sixth time the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award has been given out because it was established in 2002. Previous recipients embrace Danny Thomas in 2004, George Clooney in 2010 and Sean Penn in 2022, amongst others.
Outdoors of his philanthropic efforts, Danson is a two-time Emmy winner with trophies for Excellent Lead Actor in a Comedy Collection in 1990 and 1993 for his function as Sam Malone on Cheers. He has obtained 18 Emmy nominations all through his profession, together with for his performances on Damages and The Good Place.
As for Steenburgen, she has one earlier Emmy nod for Excellent Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Particular for The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank in 1988.
