1. Sarah Ruth Snook was born on 1 December 1987 and is an Australian actress.
26 Facts About Sarah Snook
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Sarah Snook is best known for her starring role as Shiv Roy in the HBO drama series Succession, for which she won two Golden Globe Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award.
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Sarah Snook appeared in the films Not Suitable for Children, These Final Hours, Jessabelle, The Dressmaker, Steve Jobs, The Glass Castle, An American Pickle, Pieces of a Woman, Run Rabbit Run, and The Beanie Bubble.
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On stage, Sarah Snook starred in the West End production of The Picture of Dorian Gray for which she won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress.
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Sarah Ruth Snook was born on 1 December 1987 in Adelaide, South Australia, and grew up in the suburb of Eden Hills.
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Sarah Snook's first paying job was as a fairy at children's birthday parties.
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Sarah Snook subsequently appeared in King Lear with the State Theatre Company of South Australia in 2009.
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Sarah Snook garnered further success with roles in a string of Australian films, including Sisters of War, Not Suitable for Children, These Final Hours, and Predestination.
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Sarah Snook won two AACTA Awards for her performances in Sisters of War and Predestination.
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Sarah Snook earned recognition for starring in the supernatural horror film Jessabelle.
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Sarah Snook then portrayed Andrea Cunningham in Danny Boyle's biopic Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender and Kate Winslet.
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Sarah Snook appeared in the biopic The Glass Castle, starring Brie Larson and based on the 2005 memoir of the same name.
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In 2016, Sarah Snook appeared in an episode of the Netflix science fiction anthology series Black Mirror, titled "Men Against Fire", alongside Malachi Kirby, Madeline Brewer, and Michael Kelly.
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Paul Taylor from The Independent hailed Snook's performance writing, "Sarah Snook, the young Australian star, is a disarmingly direct, deep-voiced and uninhibited as Hilde in an assured [and] striking performance".
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Sarah Snook returned to the stage in 2018, where she portrayed Joan of Arc in the Sydney Theatre Company's production of George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan.
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Sarah Snook's performance was hailed by John Sand of the Sydney Morning Herald, who described her performance as "beyond riveting" and said that "Snook catches the untamed bravado of a teenager fired with passion".
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From 2018 to 2023, Sarah Snook gained prominence for her lead role as Siobhan "Shiv" Roy in the HBO drama series Succession.
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In 2020, Sarah Snook appeared in the comedy film An American Pickle, opposite Seth Rogen, and in Kornel Mundruczo's marital drama film Pieces of a Woman.
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In January 2022, Sarah Snook was cast alongside Zach Galifianakis and Elizabeth Banks in the comedy drama film The Beanie Bubble, which was co-directed by Kristin Gore and Damian Kulash.
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In 2022, Sarah Snook narrated the Netflix documentary film Kangaroo Valley.
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In 2024 Sarah Snook returned to the West End portraying all 26 roles in the Sydney Theatre Company's production of The Picture of Dorian Gray at the Theatre Royal Haymarket.
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Sarah Snook must perform in real time, react to the recorded footage and manipulate the technology herself in some scenes.
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Sarah Snook voiced the protagonist in the 2024 stop-motion animated film Memoir of a Snail directed by Adam Elliot.
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Sarah Snook's voice makes the many outlandish events she describes feel grounded in a reality that refuses the call to pity.
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In 2020, Sarah Snook began dating Australian comedian Dave Lawson, whom she married in the backyard of her Brooklyn home in 2021.
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Sarah Snook is the godmother of her Succession co-star Kieran Culkin's son.