Tambor thanked his Transparent boss Jill Soloway, who also took home an Emmy for directing the Amazon series, and said, "You changed my life, you changed my career and you changed everything."

"I'm not going to say this beautifully. To you people out there… please give transgender talent a chance. Give them auditions. Give them their story. Do that," Tambor said. "I would not be unhappy were I the last cisgender male to play a female transgender on television," he said. "We have work to do."

Tambor also won the award at the 2015 Emmys and a Golden Globe for the role in 2015. The actor has been nominated for an Emmy six other times for his work on Arrested Development and The Larry Sanders Show.