Sophie Okonedo has won big at the 64th London Evening Standard Theatre Awards. Her husband Ralph Fiennes also clinched the award for best actor. The couple performed as Antony and Cleopatra at the National Theatre which earned them the best actor and best actress awards.
Other winners include Lin Manuel Miranda's Hamilton for best musical, Jamael Westman, also took home the award for emerging talent.
Best Actor
Bryan Cranston - Network
Ralph Fiennes - Antony and Cleopatra (winner)
Ian McKellen - King Lear
Colin Morgan - Translations
Kyle Soller - The Inheritance
Best Actress
Laura Linner - My Name Is Lucy Barton
Carey Mulligan - Girls and Boys
Cecilia Noble - Nine Night
Sophie Okonedo - Antony and Cleopatra (winner)
Lia Williams - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo. Photo: BBC
Best Play
Home, I'm Darling
The Inheritance (winner)
John
The Lehman Trilogy
The Writer
Best Director
Stephen Daldry - The Inheritance
Marianne Elliott - Company (winner)
Robert Hastie - The York Realist
Phyllida Lloyd - Tina
Ian Rickson - Translations
Best Musical
Caroline, or Change
Company
Everybody's Talking About Jamie
Fun Home
Hamilton (winner)
Best Musical Performance
Sharon D Clarke - Caroline, or Change
Rosalie Craig - Company (winner)
Arinzé Kene - Misty
Kelli O'Hara - The King and I
Adrienne Warren - Tina
Best Design
Miriam Buether - The Jungle (winner)
Bunny Christie - Company
Es Devlin - Girls and Boys
Rae Smith - Translations
Jan Versweyveld - Network
Charles Wintour award for most promising playwright
Terrance Arvelle Chisholm - Br'er Cotton
Natasha Gordon - Nine Night (winner)
Francis Turnly - The Great Wave
Emerging Talent Award
Rona Morison - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Debris Stevenson - Poet in da Corner
Chris Walley - The Lieutenant of Inishmore
Roy Alexander Weise - Nine Night
Jamael Westman - Hamilton (winner)
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