Last night’s Tony awards were a big success for British theatre, with Helen Mirren winning her first ever Tony award for her role as Queen Elizabeth II in The Audience.
Her Tony will join her Emmy and Oscar on her ever-growing shelf of awards, and now Helen has her eyes on the Grammys. ‘This is an unbelievable honour. I am so thrilled,' said Helen as she accepted the award for best leading actress. ‘[Now] I have to do an audio book!’ she joked.
Helen’s co-star in the play, Richard McCabe, was also named best featured actor.
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The 69th annual awards ceremony commended Simon Stephens’ adaptation of Mark Haddon’s best-selling book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. The British play was awarded best director (Marianne Elliott), best scenic design and best leading actor, which went to newcomer Alex Sharp. Fresh out of drama school, Alex beat some of theatre's big names including Bill Nighy and Bradley Cooper.
Best musical went to Fun Home, a story about a young girl coming out as a lesbian, and Wolf Hall Parts One & Two, Skylight and The King and I also received awards.
Let us also take a moment to appreciate Helen's beautiful Badgley Mischka gown...
And the moment she locked lips with film director husband of almost 20 years, Taylor Hackford...
What a woman!
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