“The Crown” ends with a climax.

Elizabeth Debicki won the Emmy for best supporting actress in a drama series for her role as Princess Diana in Netflix’s “The Crown.” Debicki was nominated but did not win last year in season five (the statue went to Jennifer Coolidge for “The White Lotus”).

Debicki beat fellow nominees Christine Baranski (“The Gilded Age”), Nicole Beharie (“The Morning Show”), Greta Lee (“The Morning Show”), Lesley Manville (“The Crown”), Karen Pittman (Mia Jordan) and Holland Taylor (“The Morning Show”).

The statue joins The Crown’s extensive Emmy haul over the years: Before Sunday’s ceremony, the six-season drama had won 21 Emmys, including one for Emma Corrin, who played a younger Princess Diana in Season 4 of the series.

“One thing I kept hearing from people, and that I really wanted to get across for people who knew her, was that while she had an incredibly tragic life in many ways, her vitality and her humor, her joy, was so, so alive,” Debicki said at a previous Netflix event attended by IndieWire. “As soon as you start talking about her (with people who knew her), you hear, ‘Oh, I gave this speech and the whole time she was pinching my thumb! That was glorious! I loved that person.’ It was really important to me to pull that off as best as I could… there’s something so childlike in the best way that she still had that sense of playfulness. That’s remarkable considering how difficult everything was.”

The Crown has lost some of its luster since it first aired in 2016. IndieWire’s Ben Travers noted in his review of Season 6, “Peter Morgan’s Netflix series has long chosen dark, gritty paths as its path through royal history, but Season 6 is particularly macabre in the first four episodes that make up Part 1. The focus is entirely on Diana (Elizabeth Debicki). The opening scene jumps back in time to witness her tragic car crash, and the final episode sees her sons William (Ed McVay) and Harry (Luther Ford) walking behind her coffin. There’s no room for farewell episodes like “Aberfan,” where an event or component takes center stage to redefine the Queen’s evolving role, and there’s little room for the Queen herself… it’s unclear what Morgan’s shining example will be for the latter part of his final season. In part because there’s no pure light left at all.”

Debicki joins an illustrious line-up of actresses who have portrayed a character who was once arguably the most famous woman in the world. Alongside Corrin, Kristen Stewart played the People’s Princess in Pablo Larraín’s 2021 film Spencer, and Naomi Watts portrayed Diana in 2013’s Diana. There have also been several different television movies about Diana, both before and after her death.

The 76th Primetime Emmy Awards aired Sunday, September 15 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC. The full broadcast can be streamed on Hulu on Monday.