Jodie Comer wins greatest actress Tony Award for Prima Facie
Jodie Comer has scooped the Tony Award for greatest main actress for her efficiency within the one-woman play Prima Facie.
The function was her Broadway debut, coming sizzling on the heels of her West End debut in the identical function.
The stay cinema model of the present – a part of National Theatre Live collection – broke information because the highest-grossing occasion cinema launch within the UK and Ireland.
Comer referred to as her Tony win “surreal” after a run that had been “just been about putting one foot in front of the other”.
She was forced to halt a performance last week after experiencing respiration difficulties because of polluted air brought on by wildfires in Canada.
The play explores how sexual assault legal guidelines fail survivors, placing a defence lawyer within the witness field.
Jodie Comer in Prima Facie. Pic: Helen Murray/The Press Room by way of AP
Speaking about her character Tessa, Comer mentioned: “This woman in this play has been my greatest teacher and I have to thank Suzie Miller for that, who wrote this magnificent piece.
“Without her writing that, [I] wouldn’t be right here so this feels simply as a lot Suzie’s as it’s mine.”
The actress went on to thank members of the production team and apologised to her friends and family for being “absent” previously 12 months.
“To every person who feels represented by Tessa, this has been my greatest honour,” she mentioned, shortly including “and it continues to be – there’s three weeks left!”
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The award was introduced at a present that was unscripted as a result of ongoing Hollywood writers’ strike.
Opening the present, host Ariana DeBose informed audiences to “buckle up” after warning them the present can be fully unscripted.
The strike, involving greater than 11,000 members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA), had beforehand threatened to derail the present.
The WGA beforehand agreed to a waiver for the present, in order that its members wouldn’t picket the occasion and permit the printed on US community CBS to go forward.
Alex Newell and J. Harrison Ghee made historical past as the primary non-binary actors to be recognised on the awards.
Other winners included Sean Hayes for his function in Good Night, Oscar, and Victoria Clark for her efficiency within the musical Kimberly Akimbo.
Kimberly Akimbo was named greatest musical, whereas Leopoldstadt received greatest play.