Jodie Comer scores first Tony Award nomination for Broadway debut

2023-05-02

British actress Jodie Comer has earned her first Tony Award nomination for Broadway debut Prima Facie.

The Killing Eve star, 30, is nominated for best performance by an actress in a leading role in a play for her role as Tessa in the one-person production by playwright Suzie Miller.

The production, about a British defence lawyer who ends up in the witness box, secured four Tony Award nominations in total, including for best scenic design, best lighting design and best sound in a play.

After receiving critical acclaim for her West End debut at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London, which included winning best actress at the 2023 Olivier Awards, Comer took the play to the John Golden Theatre on Broadway in April which will run until July.

Comer will face competition in the category from Oscar winner Jessica Chastain, who received her first Tony nomination for a stripped-down version of A Doll’s House which scored six Tony nods; Jessica Hecht for Summer, 1976 and Audra McDonald, who stars in Ohio State Murders.

The British actress was among a number of high profile faces to make the nominations this year, including Academy Award winner Samuel L Jackson for his role in August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson and Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles for Into The Woods.

The list also features operatic pop singer and musical star Josh Groban for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street; Dear Evan Hansen and Pitch Perfect actor Ben Platt for Parade, former Will & Grace star Sean Hayes for Good Night, Oscar and Fences star Stephen McKinley Henderson, who earned his second Tony nomination for Between Riverside And Crazy.

West Side Story’s Ariana DeBose will host the awards ceremony on June 11 from New York City’s United Palace theatre live on CBS and on Paramount+.

Jodie Comer is an English actress, who was born and raised in Liverpool, and made her acting debut in an episode of The Royal Today in 2008.

She's also appeared in My Mad Fat Diary and Doctor Foster, and earned acclaim for starring in the drama miniseries Thirteen, but it was her role as psychotic assassin Villanelle in the BBC thriller series Killing Eve that made her a household name.

She won the Primetime Emmy Award in 2019 for the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and was nominated for the same award in 2020 and 2022.

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