
Succession star Sarah Snook pays tribute to her homeland in emotional speech as she scores top prize at Tony Awards: 'This means so much for a little Australian girl'
Australian Succession star Sarah Snook has taken home one of the top gongs in show business for her Broadway drama The Picture of Dorian Gray.
The South Australian-born star, 37, was awarded the Tony Award on Sunday US time for the Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role.
For the play, based on the classic novel by Oscar Wilde, Sarah took on the mammoth task of acting as 26 different characters in the one woman show.
Sarah won the coveted Broadway prize over high profile nominees including Hollywood veteran Mia Farrow and young Stranger Things actress Sarah Sink.
She was on hand at Radio City Music Hall to collect the award which was presented by Keanu Reeves, alongside fellow Bill and Ted's Big Adventure co-star Alex Winter.
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'This means so much for a little Australian girl to be here on Broadway,' she said after accepting the prize.
'[The Picture of Dorian Gray] is billed as a one-person show, and I don't feel alone any night that I do this show. There are so many people on stage making it work and behind the stage making it work.'
She also thanked her husband Dave Lawson: 'And an exceptional thank you, the biggest thank you I can ever give to my husband, my soulmate, you are so brilliant holding family together and looking after the phones.'
The Succession star made her Broadway debut in the ambitious stage play was directed and written by fellow Aussie Kipp Williams, who was also nominated.
However, he lost the best director gong to Sam Pinkleton for Oh, Mary!
The Picture of Dorian Gray, meanwhile, also picked up a Tony for costume designer for Marg Horwell.
Other nominees included in Sarah's category included Laura Donnelly and LaTanya Richardson Jackson.
The Picture of Dorian Gray is an Australian production first performed at the Sydney Theatre Company in 2020.
It has been performed in London's West End in 2024 starring Sarah Snook and later premiered on Broadway in March.
Based on Wilde's 1890 novel, the play follows the drama surrounding a young man who wishes never to grow old. Meanwhile, he finds that his portrait begins to age grotesquely every time he commits a 'sin' - while he remains eternally youthful.
It comes after Sarah recently revealed she decided to take a page out of Taylor Swift's book while preparing for Tony award winning role - and it really paid off.
Taking on all 26 roles has been no easy feat, which means Sarah had to prepare both mentally and physically beforehand.
When she was asked about her fitness routine during a recent interview with The New Yorker, Sarah admitted pop star Taylor, 35, was behind some of her regimen.
'No alcohol, no caffeine. Sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep. And I do my lines at pace on a treadmill, you know,' she told the outlet.
The interviewer chimed in to point out the treadmill technique was something Taylor did to prepare for The Eras Tour.
'I heard that and thought, "That's a genius idea. I'm gonna do that,"' the Emmy-winning actress shared.
It seems Sarah isn't the only Succession cast member to have now turned to theatre.
Jeremy Strong starred in An Enemy of The People, Brian Cox in A Long Day's Journey Into Night, and Kieran Culkin in Glengarry Glen Ross, just to name a few.
'It's quite an amazing coincidence,' Sarah told the outlet about her castmates who have now also turned to the stage.
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