American actor John Lithgow gained the Greatest Actor trophy on the London stage Olivier Awards on Sunday for exploring the darkish aspect of youngsters’s author Roald Dahl in “Big.”
The star of Conclave and the future Professor Dumbledore within the new HBO Harry Potter remake added the Olivier to an awards shelf that already contains a number of Tony, Emmy and Golden Globe trophies.
Scroll down for the complete listing of winners.
In Mark Rosenblatt’s play, he depicts the creator of “Charlie and the Chocolate Manufacturing facility”, which confronts Dahl’s antisemitic views.
“I believe I will faint,” stated an emotional Lithgow, 79.
Whereas accepting his award, he appeared to reference the present controversy over Donald Trump’s second time period as US president, assuring Britons that the transatlantic “particular relationship remains to be firmly intact.”
“It’s not at all times simple to welcome an American into your midst, and at this explicit second, it’s in all probability a bit extra difficult than standard,” he informed the viewers on the Royal Albert Corridor.
Big was additionally named Greatest New Play, and Lithgow’s co-star, English actor Elliot Levey, took Greatest Actor in a Supporting Position.
Elsewhere, the backwards-biographical story “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” – the musical primarily based on a narrative by F. Scott Fitzgerald that additionally impressed David Fincher’s 2008 film starring Brad Pitt – was named Greatest New Musical on the awards, whereas appearing legend Lesley Manville took the Greatest Actress prize for her efficiency as shocked royal partner Jocasta in “Oedipus.”
Director Robert Icke’s modern-day reimagining of the traditional Greek tragedy was named Greatest Revival of a play.
Imelda Staunton gained the fifth Olivier of her profession, Greatest Actress in a Musical, for “Howdy, Dolly!”, whereas Greatest Actor in a Musical went to John Dagleish because the titular man who ages in reverse in “Benjamin Button.”
Right here is the complete listing of winners of the 2025 Olivier Awards:
- New Play: “Big”
- New Musical: “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
- New Leisure or Comedy: “Titanique”
- Household Present: “Brainiac Dwell”
- Revival: “Oedipus”
- Musical Revival: “Fiddler on the Roof”
- Actress-Play: Lesley Manville, “Oedipus”
- Actor-Play: John Lithgow, “Big”
- Actress-Musical: Imelda Staunton, “Howdy, Dolly!”
- Actor-Musical: John Dagleish, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
- Supporting Actor-Play: Elliot Levey, “Big”
- Supporting Actress-Play: Romola Garai, “The Years”
- Supporting Actress-Musical: Maimuna Memon, “Natasha, Pierre & the Nice Comet of 1812”
- Supporting Actor-Musical: Layton Williams, “Titanique”
- Director: Eline Arbo, “The Years”
- Excellent Musical Contribution: Darren Clark and Mark Aspinall, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
- Theater Choreography: Christopher Wheeldon, “MJ The Musical”
- New Opera Manufacturing: “Festen”
- Excellent Achievement in Opera: Allan Clayton, “Festen”
- New Dance Manufacturing: “Meeting Corridor”
- Excellent Achievement in Dance: Eva Yerbabuena, “Yerbagüena”
- Set Design: Tom Scutt, “Fiddler on the Roof”
- Lighting Design: Paule Constable and Ben Jacobs, “Oliver!”
- Sound Design: Nick Lidster, “Fiddler on the Roof”
- Costume Design: Gabriella Slade, “Starlight Specific”
- Excellent Achievement in an Affiliate Theater: “Boys on the Verge of Tears,” Soho Theatre
