Sarah Snook wins Tony for Best Actress in a play for ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray' — two years after ‘Succession'
It's another success(ion) for Sarah Snook.
The actress, 37, took home the award for Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Play at 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.
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7 Sarah Snook during the opening night curtain call for the play 'The Picture of Dorian Gray.'
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Snook originally won the Olivier Award for best actress in 2024 for her performance in the one-woman production in the West End.
During her acceptance speech in April of the year, the 'Succession' star got candid about her mindset surrounding the play.
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Snook recalled that a month before 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.'
7 Sarah Snook took on all 26 roles in 'The Picture of Dorian Gray.'
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7 Sarah Snook wows in technical marvel Broadway play.
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7 She learned her lines shortly after giving birth to her daughter.
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While onstage, the Broadway star, who welcomed her daughter in May 2023 with husband Dave Lawson, even teased that her child's first words would be from the script.
Snook, meanwhile, is no stranger to accolades as she took home an Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Drama in January 2024 for her role as Shiv Roy in 'Succession.'
The hit HBO show ran for four seasons, from 2018 to 2023, with the Australian actress opening up about how she found out the series was ending in August 2023.
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7 The 'Succession' star got glowing reviews.
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7 Sarah Snook attends 'The Picture Of Dorian Gray' opening night.
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'I was quickly devouring it in the car on the way there,' Snook told Variety at the time. 'And then by the time I finished, I arrived and was like, 'That's it. It's done.''
Just because 'Succession' is over, that doesn't mean Snook hasn't stayed tight with her former cast members.
Kieran Culkin, 42, who is also starring in the Broadway show 'Glengarry Glen Ross,' did a drive-by in March on the way to his show.
The actor was seen hanging of his car window and blowing a kiss to Snook and their 'Succession' co-stars, who were outside taking photos ahead of her opening night. He couldn't be there due to his Broadway commitment.
7 The Post's theater critic said Sarah Snook was 'hilarious and haunting as, well, everybody.'
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The Post's theater critic Johnny Oleksinski said the show was 'discombobulating. It's fantastical. And, in the end, it's crushing.'
Of Snook, he said the actress 'brings that same infectious grin' from 'Succession' to Broadway, calling her 'hilarious and haunting as, well, everybody.'
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