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Outlander alumni Laura Donnelly (Jenny Murray) and Tanya Reynolds (Lady Isobel Dunsany) are nominated for Olivier Awards.

Donnelly’s Best Actress nomination is for her leading role in ‘The Hills of California’, and has previously won in 2018 for ‘The Ferryman’.

Reynold’s Best Supporting Actress nomination is for her role in ‘A Mirror: West End’.

The Olivier Awards will be at the Royal Albert Hall on Sunday, April 14, 2024.

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A new article in British Vogue calls Laura Donnelly and acclaimed playwright partner Jez Butterworth ‘British Theatre’s Coolest Power Couple’. Laura appears on stage in ‘The Hills of California’ (written by Butterworth, who also wrote Ferryman which won Donnelly a Tony nomination and an Olivier award) at the Harold Pinter Theatre until June 2024.

From Vogue:

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For Donnelly it has the makings of a career crescendo. Roles in TV hits such as Starz’s time-travel crowd-pleaser Outlander and a turn in Marvel’s Werewolf by Night have gained the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland-trained actor fans around the world. So has a penchant for fabulous red-carpet gowns, such as the Giambattista Valli number she wore for the Met Gala in 2019. But it’s with her extraordinary work on stage with Butterworth where she’s truly made her name. First, with her enchanting performances as “the other woman” in his 2012 anti-romance The River (the play the couple fell in love making). Taylor Swift, Frances McDormand and Barbra Streisand were just a few of the stars who rushed to see her alongside Hugh Jackman in the Broadway transfer. Nothing compares, though, to the impact of her Olivier-winning, Tony-nominated run as young widow Caitlin in smash hit The Ferryman: a family drama inspired by the true story of the IRA’s disappearing of Donnelly’s uncle in the 1980s.”

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