And the Emmy goes to... Prince George.
One of the world's most prestigious show business trophies has been bestowed on a local resident.
Jenna Servatius can hardly believe it herself, and it was her hands into which the orb and angel statuette was thrust.
The Daytime Emmy Award for best makeup in the world of daytime television is sitting on her coffee table in Toronto as she ponders where it might go on a permanent basis.
Servatius could hardly be more removed in her upbringing from the red carpets of Los Angeles.
She was raised at Ness Lake, went to Nukko Lake elementary school, then graduated from Kelly Road secondary in 2004 with her intentions set on the hospitality industry.
She took courses at CNC in that field and went to work for a year at Disneyworld.
Even then, there was no epiphany that would conceivably get her to VIP seats at the Pasadena Convention Centre in amongst superstar nominees like Laurence Fishburne, Usain Bolt, Guillermo del Toro, Emeril Lagasse, Trisha Yearwood, David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Craig Ferguson and other nominees who, in many cases, are household names in the entertainment world.
Before she got to the glitz, she had to go through some smaller flashes. After Disneyworld, Servatius veered to a new career path, going with her gut instead of a version of practicality she thought was more stable.
It was a move that actually pleased her mom and dad, Lori-Anne and Rocky, back in Prince George, because it meant she was striving to be happy.
She won the Rotary Citizenship Bursary the year she graduated, so they were confident in her abilities, no matter which way she applied herself.
"She has always been very artistic," said her mother. "She started to really come into her own when she moved to Vancouver to go to Blanche Macdonald (one of Canada's leading schools for the fashion, makeup and aesthetics industry), but her first prize for art was for a pencil drawing she entered in the Reid Lake Fall Fair."
After she graduated from Blanche Macdonald, Servatius began working entry-level jobs in the Vancouver film and television world, but Toronto came calling with full-time work when she got hired into the makeup department of Sinking Ship Entertainment, the production company behind such favourite family shows as Dino Dan & Dana, Annedroids, Bookaboo, Chirp and the one that occupies most of Servatious's time, Odd Squad.
It was her work on Oddsquad that took the famous trophy over other nominees Live With Kelly, The Talk, Harry and The View.
"The hair lady (Liz Roelands) from my show won, and the costume designer (Christine Toye) won," Servatius recalled. "It was so amazing for the three of us to be standing there together. There are no words. We all work so hard and so closely together, so it was incredible. A win for one would have felt like a win for all of us, but for all three of us, that was just an indescribable night."
The show also won for writing and acting, so the adrenaline was flowing like the champagne at the after-party held nearby at the Pasadena Children's Museum.
Servatius said that she was taken completely off guard by the win. At 31, she is young to be recognized so auspiciously in an industry where age improves art and hones the talent. She was also up against some heavy shows. It was only on the urging of her Sinking Ship colleagues that she prepared at all for a victory speech.
She certainly had no trouble thanking the producers and other creative professionals who make the show, each episode. She genuinely likes her co-workers and enjoys the Odd Squad show.
"Every script I look forward to reading. They are so funny, and they hit the stuff the kids like, but they also include the stuff that parents respond to," she said.
"And I get to create every day. I'm excited to go to work every day, even when its four in the morning. And it's often four in the morning. That's not even morning, that's just the continuation of the night. And I love it."
She needs a rest, though.
The upcoming season of Odd Squad wrapped during the first week of April, then came the Emmy event, so she wants to recuperate before the next project gets underway.
Servatius's success became a discussion point at the recent Creative Corner panel at Northern FanCon.
The moderator started the professional development discussion by getting her a round of applause from the live audience, and pointing to her success as the all-local example of why the panel was happening in the first place.
The prop makers, costume designers, sound technicians and film editors at the table were there to shed light on the many fruitful professions within the screen arts industry. It was a discussion Servatius said she wish she could have heard at about 17 years of age.
"I was basically told that my interest in the arts would lead, at best, to being an art professor," Servatius said. "I would love to go to high schools and talk about the potential of film jobs. I had no idea, in school, that this world of different professions was out there. There is so much potential for people to work in film."
The early stages of a film industry are showing signs within Prince George and, closely-related to that, is the live theatre side of the industry. Servatius said Theatre Northwest played an enormous role in her own career, even though it wasn't consciously or directly at the time.
"Do you know how many actors sit in my chair, and as we chat about where we come from, and they find out I'm from Prince George they say 'oh yeah, I know P.G., I was in a Theatre Northwest play' or someone they know worked for Theatre Northwest. I can't even count anymore the number of times that conversation's happened. TNW really has put Prince George on the map in a way I never would have thought of. And I love TNW. When I was a teenager I was a soccer coach for a kids' team and the sponsor of the team would give me and my co-coach a dinner out and tickets to see a TNW play."
Servatius never had the urge to be out on the stage or in front of the camera herself but she has found love of work in that industry.
She has also found a Daytime Emmy. Now she just has to find a place in her home to put it.
