Sarah Paulson Celebrates Her First Tony Nomination for Appropriate
On April 30, actress Sarah Paulson received her first Tony nomination for the dramatic Broadway play Appropriate.
Sarah Paulson is no stranger to delivering mesmerizing performances on screen or stage. The actress has garnered eight Primetime Emmy nominations, mainly for her work on Ryan Murphy’s anthology series American Horror Story. Now, the Primetime Emmy and Golden Globe winner can add a Tony nomination to her impressive list of accolades.
On April 30, the Tony Award nominations were announced, recognizing excellence on and offstage in Broadway productions. Paulson received the nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play category. Paulson took to Instagram to express her gratitude.
She wrote, “I have dreamt about this since I was a child. A little girl walking around NYC holding hands with my 27-year-old single mother and my sweet baby sister, looking up at Broadway marquees and dreaming…Watching the Tony awards, wishing dreaming, hoping. Praying. And now there it is. A dream realized.”
According to Deadline, Appropriate “brings together a mostly estranged trio of siblings as they reconnect to deal with their late father’s estate — a former plantation home.” Written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, the play debuted off-Broadway in 2014 and transferred to Los Angeles the year after. The dramatic play has received eight overall nominations at the upcoming Tony Awards.
Other nominees in the category include Betsy Aidem, Rachel McAdams, Amy Ryan, and fellow American Horror Story icon Jessica Lange. The pair met and worked together for the first time in 2005 for the Broadway revival of the play The Glass Menagerie. In 2020, the SAG Awards winner spoke about how Lange was essential in fostering her television career.
Jessica Lange and Sarah Paulson both got Tony nominations today pic.twitter.com/X9EBgKIeVm
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“It was a very casual thing where we had done that play together, and she came out to LA to do the first season of American Horror Story, and LA is not her town,” she explained. “I was supposed to go do a play in New York with Kevin Kline that got canceled at the very last minute, so I stayed and I went with her to this dinner, and Ryan came.”
She continued, “I worked with him a long time ago, but we had kind of lost touch. She just threw her arm around me and said to Ryan, ‘Can’t you find something for her to do on American Horror Story?’ And he was like, ‘There’s a part of your psychic that we’re gonna start shooting in the next episode. Do you wanna do that?’ And I was like, sure, and the rest is history.”
This year’s Tony Awards will be held on June 16, airing live on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. Academy Award-winner Ariana Debose will return as host. Fans can view the full list of nominees here. Appropriate runs on Broadway until June 23. Tickets can be purchased on the play’s website.
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