Jodie Comer bagged herself an award for her West End debut performance at the Olivier Awards last night.
The Liverpool-born actress, best known for her role in Killing Eve, won Best Actress for her role as Tessa in Prima Facie. The stage play, which ran at the Harold Pinter theatre in London last year, is a one-woman show by Suzie Miller and also won the coveted Best New Play award.
It follows Jodie as she plays a barrister specialising in defending people accused of sexual assault, who questions the system after being date-raped. She researched the role by sitting in on court cases and speaking to barristers, judges and police offers who were "very honest" about how they had to "put aside their own feelings as a woman, to commit to the job that they do".
