Mescal, 27, mentioned his speedy success “doesn’t really feel actual.”

“However it’s sort of occurring at such a price that there isn’t any time to cease and suppose, ‘This can be a phenomenal feeling,’” he mentioned.

Liverpool-born Comer, 30, received the perfect actress in a play award for the one-person present “Prima Facie,” which she is taking to Broadway later this month. Suzie Miller’s drama a couple of lawyer coping with the aftermath of a sexual assault was additionally named finest new play.

Comer, who shot to fame as star of TV spy collection “Killing Eve,” gave a shoutout “to any youngsters who haven’t been to drama college, who can’t afford to go to drama college, who has been rejected from drama college — don’t let anybody let you know that it isn’t potential.”

“My Neighbor Totoro” was named finest leisure or comedy play on the Oliviers, the U.Okay. equal of Broadway’s Tony Awards. Phelim McDermott received best-director trophy for the Royal Shakespeare Firm’s adaptation of Studio Ghibli’s magical coming-of-age movie. It additionally took prizes for sound, lighting, costumes and units.

“Standing on the Sky’s Edge,” an city elegy set to the music of singer-songwriter Richard Hawley, was named finest new musical, whereas an edgy, pared-down tackle Rodgers and Hammerstein’s corn-fed traditional “Oklahoma!” received the prize for finest musical revival.

Arthur Darvill received the best-actor in a musical prize for enjoying Curly in “Oklahoma!” Katie Brayben was named finest actress in a musical for enjoying televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker within the Almeida Theatre’s “Tammy Faye.”

Musical Supporting efficiency trophies went to Beverley Knight for hiphop suffragette story “Sylvia” and Zubin Varla for “Tammy Faye.” Will Eager was named finest actor in a play for enjoying Vladimir Putin in “Patriots,” a play in regards to the Russian chief’s relationship with oligarch Boris Berezovsky.

Eager referred to as his character a “dwelling, respiration, internationally acknowledged villain.”

Veteran actor Derek Jacobi obtained a lifetime achievement award to rejoice his six-decade profession.

Hannah Waddingham – a West Finish musical star earlier than she discovered TV fame because the proprietor of a struggling soccer crew on “Ted Lasso” — hosted the ceremony at London’s Royal Albert Corridor, which included performances from musical nominees together with “The Band’s Go to,” “Sylvia,” “Tammy Faye,” “Oklahoma!” and “Sister Act.”

The prizes have been based in 1976 and named for the late actor-director Laurence Olivier. Winners are chosen by voting teams of stage professionals and theatergoers.