In her opening performance, Ariana DeBose humourously flipped through empty pages labeled “script” to emphasise the lack thereof.
Jodie Comer bags Best Leading Actress at Tony Awards 2023. Jodie Comer, renowned for her role in Killing Eve, won the prestigious Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Play at the 2023 Tony Awards. Her remarkable performance in the one-woman Broadway show Prima Facie earned her the accolade.
Expressing her overwhelming gratitude, Comer acknowledged playwright Suzie Miller for her exceptional writing, which brought the character to life.
Ariana DeBose, an Oscar-winning actress, hosted the Tony Awards in New York. However, due to the ongoing writers’ strike in Hollywood, DeBose opted for an unscripted approach.
In her opening performance, she humourously flipped through empty pages labeled “script” to emphasise the lack thereof.
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Several award winners, including Victoria Clark, Best Leading Actress in a Musical, expressed their support for the Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike, highlighting the crucial role of writers in the industry.
Jodie Marie Comer is an English actress. Born and raised in Liverpool, Comer began her career in an episode of The Royal Today in 2008. She gained recognition for appearing in the series My Mad Fat Diary (2013–2015) and Doctor Foster (2015–2017), and earned acclaim for starring in the drama miniseries Thirteen (2016).
From 2018 to 2022, Comer starred as Villanelle in the BBC America spy thriller series Killing Eve, winning a British Academy Television Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.
For starring as a healthcare assistant in the television film Help (2021), she won another British Academy Television Award. Comer expanded to films with starring roles in the action film Free Guy and period drama The Last Duel (both 2021).
Comer made her West End theatre debut in Suzie Miller’s one-woman play Prima Facie in 2022, which earned her an Evening Standard Theatre Award and a Laurence Olivier Award. Following its transfer to Broadway theatre in 2023, she won a Tony Award.
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