Sarah Snook winning at the Golden Globes 2024.Photo:CBS
CBS
Sarah Snookis a two-timeGolden Globeswinner!
TheSuccessionstar took home the award for best actress in a drama series award at theGolden Globes2024 on Sunday. She was up againstHelen Mirren(1923),Bella Ramsey(The Last of Us),Keri Russell(The Diplomat),Imelda Staunton(The Crown) andEmma Stone(The Curse).
After taking the stage, Snook, 36, joked of the honor: “Oh, wow. I was kind of hoping I didn’t have to get up.Kieran [Culkin]’s usually better at these speeches, right? Don’t you want to get up instead? Yeah, you take it instead.”
Continuing her speech, Snook thanked the Golden Globes,Successioncreator Jesse Armstrong and casting director Francine Maisler.
“Thank you Jesse for casting me in this and Francine for putting me in front of Jesse,” she said. “This show, it’s changed my life. And everybody in it was amazing. The cast, the crew are fantastic. This was a team effort. It was always a team and that was what made the show amazing, I think, to be a part of.”
Sarah Snook at the Golden Globes 2024.Monica Schipper/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty
Monica Schipper/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty
Snook also made sure to thank her family for their support. “Thank you to my husband for holding my hand. And thank you to George and my daughter for also changing my life in different ways,” she said.
Finally, Snook closed out her speech with a flustered sentiment: “This room is so intimidating!” she joked. “I gotta get out of here.”
Snook starred as Waystar Royco heir Siobhan “Shiv” Roy in the hit HBO series that wrapped itsfourth and final seasonin May.
Sarah Snook in ‘Succession’.Peter Kramer/HBO
Peter Kramer/HBO
“It’s hard to express what this show has meant to me,” she wrote in May. “The places I got to go, the immense talent I got to work with…it breaks my heart that it is all over. But my heart had to be this full of all the memories, good times, challenges and triumphs, to be able to break at all…so that makes me grateful.”
She called being a part of theSuccessioncast “a career highlight, which will no doubt be hard to top.”
Snook’s costarsBrian Cox,Kieran CulkinandJeremy Strongreceived nominations in the best actor in a drama series category, with Culkinultimately winning on Sunday, andJ. Smith-Cameron,Matthew Macfadyen,Alan RuckandAlexander Skarsgårdall earned nods for their supporting turns. Additionally, the series picked up a nom for best drama series.
The cast of ‘Succession’.HBO
From running a company to ruling England, the rest of the categories' contenders delivered the drama on screen all year long.
Mirren, 78, plays Dutton family matriarch Cara Dutton in theYellowstonespinoff oppositeHarrison Ford.
Helen Mirren as Cara Dutton in ‘1923’.Emerson Miller/Paramount+
Emerson Miller/Paramount+
“I had tobe in the bed with him, you know. I’m dressed up to here,” Mirren said at The Wrap’s2023 Awards Season Screening Series, gesturing to her neck. “But I’m lying there and I’m thinking, ‘I’m in bed with Harrison Ford.’ I was so excited, I can’t tell you. I had to pretend to be cool.”
Mirren first worked with Ford, 81, onThe Mosquito Coastin 1986. “The relationship was obviously very, very different then because Harrison was already an enormous movie star and I was a theatre actress out of London andnobody had heard of me,” Mirren told the U.K.‘sThe Timesin December 2022.This marks Mirren’s 17th Golden Globe nomination; she’s won three times previously.1923also picked up a nod in the best television drama category.
Bella Ramsey on ‘The Last of Us’.Liane Hentscher/HBO
Liane Hentscher/HBO
Based on the video game of the same name,The Last of Ustakes place in post-apocalyptic Americaand sees antihero survivor Joel Miller (Pedro Pascal) caring for a 14-year-old girl (Ramsey) who may be the only shot at saving civilization.
During an interview withVariety, Pascal, 48, spoke about working with the “cool” 20-year-old, who identifies as non-binary but doesn’t mind playing feminine characters.
“I couldn’t have asked for a more anchoring, generous, thoughtful teenager. And I don’t mean to say that in a patronizing way,” he shared. “I relied on Bella for so much of the experience. We were both scared and shy about that, but Bella just inspired me to be mature about it.”
“I really don’t think I’ve met anybody like Bella,”The Mandalorianstar continued. “They brought the best out of me as a person.”The Last of Usalso picked up a nod for best television drama. The show’s second season will premiere on Max in 2025, with production slated to start next month.
Keri Russell on ‘The Diplomat’.netflix
netflix
Russell, 47, plays a new U.S. ambassador to the U.K. in the Netflix political thriller. The mother of three toldDeadline Hollywoodshe signed ontoThe Diplomatfollowing a six-season run onThe Americansbecause she thought “it was fun.”
“It’s just such a messy mix of smart political jargon and then that whole world that is really interesting of the State Department and the Foreign Service, but mixed in with Debora’s really specific brand of humor involving the minutiae of everyday life,” Russell said ofThe Diplomatcreator Debora Cahn. “This character that she created, it’s just fun and good. It’s as simple as that.”
Russellmet Jane D. Hartley, the real-life U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom, at Winfield House in London in May. “I feel unbelievably lucky to have the absurdly talented Keri Russell playing me,” Hartley, 73, said at the time.
Russell described her character Kate Wyler as “smart and tough and direct, and bold,” toThe Wrap. “She’s bossy. She’s fun to play. And full of all these other contradictions.”
Imelda Staunton on ‘The Crown’.Justin Downing/ Netflix / Courtesy Everett Collection
Justin Downing/ Netflix / Courtesy Everett Collection
Staunton, 67, has playedQueen Elizabeth IIin seasons 5 and 6 of the Netflix historical drama, taking over from Olivia Colman, whowon the Golden Globe for her portrayalin 2020. Claire Foy originated the role and picked up a Golden Globe for it in 2017.
“I think the challenge that I felt for myself — the extra challenge, if there wasn’t enough on my plate — was to be the queen that people recognize much more now, the older queen,” Staunton toldTudum. “Claire Foy’s [version] was almost a costume drama because it seemed so long ago, and then Olivia Colman’s was, again, like a period piece. [This season] just feels so much more present. I thought, ‘I can’t fool anyone now.’”
This marks Staunton’s third Golden Globe nomination. Her costarDominic West, who played Prince Charles, earned a nod in the best actor category, andThe Crownpicked up a nom for best television drama.
Emma Stone and Nathan Fielder on ‘The Curse’.a24/paramount+; showtime
a24/paramount+; showtime
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