James Norton cut a quirky figure in a brown tweed suit and aviator sunglasses as he attended the 2024 Olivier Awards on Sunday.
The Happy Valley actor, 38, had been nominated for Best Actor in A Little Life only to lose out on the trophy to Mark Gatiss for his role in The Motive and The Cue.
He looked handsome in a double breasted suit and wore bold patent boots for the occasion.
The TV star appeared in great spirits as he struck a pose on the grass for photographers before heading into the Royal Albert Hall.
Sunset Boulevard came out on top with an impressive seven wins at this year’s Awards, while Sarah Snook and Andrew Scott’s play also won big.
James Norton, 38, cut a quirky figure in a brown tweed suit and aviator sunglasses as he attended the 2024 Olivier Awards on Sunday
The Happy Valley actor was nominated for Best Actor in A Little Life only to lose out on the trophy to Mark Gatiss for his role in The Motive and The Cue
Nicole Scherzinger was handed the Best Actress in a Musical prize for her performance in Sunset Boulevard while her leading co-star Tom Francis took home the Best Actor in a Musical gong.
Jamie Lloyd won the Sir Peter Hall Award for Best Director and the show also won Best Musical Revival.
Elsewhere, Jack Knowles took home the White Light Award for Best Lighting Design; Alan Williams won for the Outstanding Musical Contribution award for his musical supervision & musical direction and Adam Fisher won the d&b audiotechnik Award for Best Sound Design.
Pop star Nicole joked that she first wanted to thank God for stopping her from tripping on the way to accept her Best Actress in a Musical gong.
The US actress and singer also said that she ‘was coming for blood’ on Broadway ahead of her taking Sunset Boulevard to New York.
She said ‘thank God for saving me from that trip right there’, before adding that she was ‘nothing without him’.
The Pussycat Dolls singer also said that ‘coming from really humble beginnings I always wanted to be a singer and do musicals’.
She added that she wanted to do ‘so many roles’ and joked that the failing Hollywood star, Norma Desmond, depicted in the musical was not ‘one of them’.
He looked handsome in a double breasted suit and wore bold patent boots for the occasion
Launched in 1976, the annual ceremony – widely regarded as the most prestigious of its kind – honours the best of London’s vibrant West End theatre schedule
The TV star appeared in great spirits as he struck a pose on the grass for photographers before heading into the Royal Albert Hall
James was seen arriving to the star-studded event
He couldn’t wipe the smile off his face as he walked into the event
She added that she wanted to do ‘so many roles’ and joked that the failing Hollywood star, Norma Desmond, depicted in the musical was not ‘one of them’.
After weeks of accolades it was almost inevitable that Sarah Snook might lead the winners as the 2024 Olivier Awards got underway on Sunday evening – and so it proved as the n star was named Best Actress, and rightly so.
Snook – best known for her starring role in HBO series Succession – scooped the award for her mesmerising one-woman performance in a new West End production of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture Of Dorian Gray.
The n actress takes all 26 roles in the production, among them Basil Hallward, Sibyl Vane and of course Gray himself.
Elsewhere there was triumph of sorts for Andrew Scott, who surprisingly lost out on the award for Best Actor but found himself among the winners after VANYA, director Stephen Simon’s contemporary rendering of the Anton Chekhov classic, claimed the award for Best Revival during the event at London’s Royal Albert Hall.
Sunset Boulevard came out on top with an impressive seven wins at this year’s Olivier Awards at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Sunday, while Sarah Snook (pictured) and Andrew Scott’s play also won big
Nicole Scherzinger was handed the Best Actress in a Musical prize for her performance in Sunset Boulevard while her leading co-star Tom Francis took home the Best Actor in a Musical gong
Mark Gatiss won Best Actor for his role as the late screen and stage legend Sir John Gielgud in Jack Thorne’s The Motive And The Cue
Scott brings to life multiple characters in adapter and co-creators Stephens’ radical new version of the play, with Sunday’s accolade coming just weeks after the death of his mother, Nora.
Adapted and directed by Sydney Theatre Company’s artistic director Kip Williams, the play has already had successful runs in Adelaide, Auckland and Melbourne with actress Eryn Jean Norvill starring.
Snook paid tribute to Oscar Wilde, the author of The Picture Of Dorian Gray, for coming up with the story in the first place and paid tribute to the one-woman show’s production staff and director.
While Scott celebrated Vanya’s triumph with his colleagues on Sunday night, the much-fancied star missed out on the award for Best Actor, with Mark Gatiss pipping him to the coveted gong.
Gatiss plays the late screen and stage legend Sir John Gielgud in Jack Thorne’s The Motive And The Cue, a theatrical take on the fraught history behind a notorious 1964 Broadway production of Hamlet, starring Gielgud and Richard Burton.