Jodie Comer Wins Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Play for ‘Prima Facie’
This year’s leading actress in the theater category was a showdown between the extremes. Jodie Comer gives a physically and emotionally exhausting performance in Susie Miller’s one-woman legal thriller Prima Facie, and Jessica Chastain barely falters from her performance. I sat in a chair all through “A Doll’s House”.
Ultimately, it was Kammer who emerged victorious in a spectacular solo role as a lawyer defending a man accused of sexual assault. The New York Times’ chief theater critic, Jesse Greene, called it “a performance of prodigious skill and incredible stamina.”
The award was notable for the 30-year-old British actress, best known for playing assassin Villanelle on the television show Killing Eve. Not only did she win her first Tony Award for her first attempt. She won the award for her first performance on the professional stage.
“It felt kind of unattainable,” she told The Times in April of the prospect of doing a play.
Comer may be new to the stage, having previously won an Olivier Award (London’s equivalent of the Tony Awards) for a West End role, but he’s no stranger to acting. In addition to her ‘Killing Eve’, she is also known for her recent roles in the action comedy ‘Free Guy’, the action drama ‘The Last Duel’ and BBC’s Crusader film. “help“
