When it came to discussing the Best Actress category at the 66th Evening Standard Theatre Awards in association with Garrard – reinstated after a two-year pandemic hiatus – the vote was unanimous. Veteran showbiz journalist Baz Bamigboye spoke for the whole panel when he said simply: “Jodie Comer, Jodie Comer, Jodie Comer.”
The 29-year-old Liverpudlian star, best known for her mercurial performance in Killing Eve, stunned audiences in the summer with her powerhouse turn in Prima Facie by Australian writer Suzie Miller at the Harold Pinter Theatre. A one-woman show about Tess, a working-class barrister specialising in sexual assault who is herself assaulted, it was only Comer’s second-ever stage appearance.
