It’s one other success(ion) for Sarah Snook.
The actress, 37, took residence the award for Greatest Actress in a Main Position in a Play on the 2025 Tony Awards on Sunday, June 8.
Snook took on all 26 roles in “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” the 1890 philosophical fiction and Gothic horror by Oscar Wilde.
Snook initially gained the Olivier Award for greatest actress in 2024 for her efficiency within the one-woman manufacturing within the West Finish.
Throughout her acceptance speech in April of the yr, the “Succession” star acquired candid about her mindset surrounding the play.
Snook recalled {that a} month earlier than opening, she “felt distant from the play and hadn’t learned my lines. I just felt, ‘What am I doing? Why am I doing a 60,000 word monologue with an eight-month-old baby?’ I felt so stupid.”
“So I was doing a lot of night breastfeeding,” she continued. “And in the evening when I would wake up then rather than being on my phone and feeding her, I would run over the lines. I find that if you learn your lines at night and then sleep on them they do go in more effectively.”
Whereas onstage, the Broadway star, who welcomed her daughter in Might 2023 with husband Dave Lawson, even teased that her baby’s first phrases can be from the script.
Snook, in the meantime, isn’t any stranger to accolades as she took residence an Emmy Award for Greatest Actress in a Drama in January 2024 for her position as Shiv Roy in “Succession.”
The hit HBO present ran for 4 seasons, from 2018 to 2023, with the Australian actress opening up about how she discovered the collection was ending in August 2023.
“I was quickly devouring it in the car on the way there,” Snook instructed Selection on the time. “And then by the time I finished, I arrived and was like, ‘That’s it. It’s done.’”
Simply because “Succession” is over, that doesn’t imply Snook hasn’t stayed tight together with her former forged members.
Kieran Culkin, 42, who can also be starring within the Broadway present “Glengarry Glen Ross,” did a drive-by in March on the best way to his present.
The actor was seen hanging of his automotive window and blowing a kiss to Snook and their “Succession” co-stars, who have been exterior taking pictures forward of her opening evening. He couldn’t be there on account of his Broadway dedication.
The Submit’s theater critic Johnny Oleksinski stated the present was “discombobulating. It’s fantastical. And, in the end, it’s crushing.”
Of Snook, he stated the actress “brings that same infectious grin” from “Succession” to Broadway, calling her “hilarious and haunting as, well, everybody.”
