Emmy award winning actor eats small fruit (6)
I believe the answer is:
damson
'fruit' is the definition.
(damson is a kind of fruit)
'emmy award winning actor eats small' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'award' could be 'ms' (MS is an example) and 'ms' is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for damson that I've seen before include "Small tart plum" , "Small dark-purple plum" , "might one be in a jam?" , "Sort of plum" , "Acid purple plum" .)