Nicole Scherzinger is the best star of all.
The previous Pussycat Dolls singer took dwelling the award for Finest Efficiency by an Actress in a Main Function in a Musical on the 2025 Tony Awards on Sunday, June 8, beating record-breaking six-time winner Audra McDonald.
Scherzinger, 46, stars because the pale silent movie star Norma Desmond in Jamie Lloyd’s revival of “Sunset Boulevard.”
“I always felt like I didn’t belong,” she stated as she accepted the award. “But you all have made me feel like I belong and I have come home at last.”
Scherzinger beforehand gained the 2024 Laurence Olivier Award for Finest Actress in a Musical for her position within the musical.
In Could, shortly after the “Masked Singer” decide was nominated for her first Tony Award, Scherzinger mentioned her flourishing Broadway profession.
“I’m overjoyed with gratitude. My heart is completely full,” she advised TODAY on the time. “Don’t ever, ever, ever give up because you never know when your time is coming. I feel so grateful right now.”
“One of my best friends from high school was the first person to call me, and he said, ‘Babe. I can’t believe it. This is what we dreamed of,’” Scherzinger added. “I can’t wait to speak to my mom.”
Though the award-winning singer grew to become a celebrity as a member of The Pussycat Dolls from 2003 to 2010, she all the time dreamed of starring on Broadway.
In December, simply months earlier than she would win her first-ever Tony Award, Scherzinger shared a video on Instagram of herself standing in New York’s Theater District in 2008.
“Growing up, I thought I’d be doing that. I’d be on that side of the street, not this side of the street,” she stated within the 16-year-old clip. “But one day I’ll make it back home.”
After her nomination, Scherzinger mirrored on the complete circle second – and the way it paralleled her “Sunset Boulevard” character’s personal desires of returning to the stage.
“As Norma Desmond would say, ‘I’ll be back where I was born to be. With one look, I’ll be me,’” Scherzinger stated. “She also says, ‘I’ll come home at last.’”
“I guess a lot of people didn’t know that side of me because they’re so used to seeing the pop star side of me or me in the Pussycat Dolls,” she added. “But this is home for me. I couldn’t have asked for a better dream role.”
Elsewhere within the interview, Scherzinger thanked “Sunset Boulevard” and her position as Norma for permitting her to “share her whole heart with the world.”
“It’s interesting because playing Norma Desmond, it’s like, where does Norma Desmond end and Nicole begin? And vice versa?” the “Don’t Hold Your Breath” singer stated.
“I always dreamed of wanting to share all of my gifts and all of my talents and my whole heart with the world,” she added. “Now I’ve gotten to because of this.”
“I’m so proud of everyone in this production,” Scherzinger concluded, “because we’re all in it together.”
“Sunset Boulevard,” which obtained a complete of seven nominations, led the Tony nominees amongst musical revivals this 12 months.
The Put up’s theater critic, Johnny Oleksinski, celebrated Scherzinger’s efficiency in his four-star overview of the manufacturing when it first opened again in October.
“But the show belongs to the titanic Scherzinger, who makes an especially proud and feral Norma,” Oleksinski wrote. “Her confidence and burning desire to succeed makes her fall much greater than that of a dusty hermit.”
The opposite Finest Efficiency by an Actress in a Main Function in a Musical nominees included McDonald (“Gypsy”), Jennifer Simard (“Death Becomes Her”), Megan Hilty (“Death Becomes Her”), and Jasmine Amy Rogers (“BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical”).
