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Did your favorite Days of our Lives star get a nomination for the 52nd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards?

By Michael Maloney
Published Jul 10, 2025 13:17 ET
Paul Telfer (Xander) escorted Suzanne Rogers (Maggie) to the Daytime Emmys last year. This year, he and Days of our Lives co-stars Linsey Godfrey (Sarah) and Eric Martsolf (Brady) are going as nominees | Image: JPI
Paul Telfer (Xander) escorted Suzanne Rogers (Maggie) to the Daytime Emmys last year. This year, he and Days of our Lives co-stars Linsey Godfrey (Sarah) and Eric Martsolf (Brady) are going as nominees | Image: JPI

Days of our Lives stars have received nominations for the 52nd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards. Soap Central has the details on which of your favorites in Salem have received nods, as well as in what other categories the Peacock soap opera has been nominated.

Days of our Lives, The Daytime Emmy goes to

Days of our Lives will be well-represented at the Daytime Emmys in October | Image: NATAS, Peacock
Days of our Lives will be well-represented at the Daytime Emmys in October | Image: NATAS, Peacock

In the Outstanding Lead Performance in a Daytime Drama Series: Actor, DAYS actors Eric Martsolf (Brady), Paul Telfer (Xander), and Greg Rikaart (Leo) have all been nominated. Their competition includes Dominic Zamprogna (Dante, General Hospital) and Peter Bergman (Jack, The Young and the Restless), a three-time Daytime Emmy-winner in this category.

DAYS was acknowledged with two nominations in the category of Outstanding Supporting Performance in a Daytime Drama Series: Actress. Linsey Godfrey (Sarah) and Emily O'Brien (ex-Theresa) are in the category along with GH's Kate Mansi (Kristina), and Y&R actresses Susan Walters (Diane) and Courtney Hope (Sally), who won in this category in 2024.

Blake Berris's character Everett Lynch may have gone to that great soap in the sky, but his portrayer was honored with a nomination in the category of Outstanding Supporting Performance in a Drama Series: Actor. His fellow nominees include GH's Tahj Bellow (T.J., GH), Gregory Harrison (ex-Gregory), and Jonathan Jackson (ex-Lucky), and Y&R's Michael Graziadei (Daniel).

Days of our Lives, bringing home the gold

Greg Vaughan (Eric), then-NBCUniversal exec Bruce Evans, Ken Corday, executive producer, and James Reynolds (Abe) celebrate Days of our Lives Daytime Emmy wins in 2018 | Image: JPI
Greg Vaughan (Eric), then-NBCUniversal exec Bruce Evans, Ken Corday, executive producer, and James Reynolds (Abe) celebrate Days of our Lives Daytime Emmy wins in 2018 | Image: JPI

DAYS is also nominated for Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Directing Team for a Drama Series, and Outstanding Writing Team for a Drama Series. The show swept in these categories in 2018. James Reynolds (Abe) and Greg Vaughan (Eric) also took home gold that year in the categories of, respectively, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.

DAYS has won the award for Outstanding Drama Series four times since the awards began in 1974. The late Macdonald Carey (ex-Tom) won two awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. Suzanne Rogers (Maggie) is the inaugural champion in the category of Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 1978.

In 2018, Susan Seaforth Hayes (Julie) and Bill Hayes (Doug) were honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Daytime Emmys. In 2022, John Aniston was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Daytime Emmys.

Days of our Lives is also nominated in the categories of Outstanding Lighting Direction and Outstanding Casting.

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