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The dream of the 90's is alive... in your pants! Yesterday the 2016 Emmy Award nominations were announced, and it turns out two of our very favorites, Keri Russell and Claire Danes, are up for the honor of Lead Actress in a Drama Series. This is Russell's first nomination forThe Americans, and Danes 1000th nomination forHomeland.In addition to each having a smash hit series,both actresses are icons of the 90's who received their biggest career comeback in these Emmy nominated roles. Beautiful faces, ageless bodies, and two of the best asses on the small screen... what's not to like?

Before The Americans, Keri was known for the hairy situation she got herself into on WB series Felicity when she chopped off her curly mane. The show, which started in 1998, was CUT short in 2002 because viewers actually peaced the F out when she lost the locks. I like to think we've become less superficial as viewers now. J.K! Russell, 40 (40!), had a couple of things going on in the 2000's such as Mission Impossible: III (2006) and popular indie flick turned Broadway play Waitress (2007), but we have the geniuses at FX to thank for casting her in cold war drama The Americans.

Like last week'sBattle babe Parker Posey and the likes of Wynona Ryder and Christina Ricci, Claire Danes, 37, was a definitive"it" girl of the 90's, a status that was cementedwhen she gave up her life for a prepubescent looking Leonardo DiCaprio in Romeo + Juliet(1996). Also, if you went to public school like me, you watched Brokedown Palace (1999)in class for some reason. Like Russell, her 2000's experience was a succession of swings and misses, but 2011 brought the HBO series Homeland which everyone completely creamed themselves over, and the rest is titstory.

IN TERMS OF NUDITY, our girls de jour have gone through a bit of a role reversal. Claire followed brief boob and butt in Romeo + Juliet and a nip slip in Polish Wedding(1998) with a clearboob viewin Stage Beauty (2004) and an uh-mazing shot of her perfect ass in Steve Martin's Shopgirl (2005). The NEW Claire keeps it classy but not assy on Homeland, and to date hasn't gone nude on the series. Keri Russell, all over my other hand,only had ONE nude appearance before The Americans - in 1997 comedy Eight Days a Week (which I previously covered in a TBT post) - and it still remains her only boob shot. Boo...b. Thankfully she got serious with the nudity (if you look like that at 40, you flaunt it) on The Americans, and continues to deliver amazing ass shot after amazing shot! Check out their nude pics and decidewhich of these Emmy nominees is hotter!

LAST WEEK'S WINNER (SARAH SILVERMAN VS. PARKER POSEY): SARAH SILVERMAN

Keri Russell

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Claire Danes

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