Cush Jumbo, 2013
Won for her one-woman show about Josephine Baker, Josephine and I, at the Bush Theatre, and went on to appear in the Donmar’s all-female Shakespeare trilogy, on Broadway in Jez Butterworth’s The River and on screen in The Good Wife.
Andrew Garfield, 2006
Won for Beautiful Thing at Sound Theatre and for four plays at the National, and in 2017 and 2018 led the epic Angels in America at the NT and in New York.
On screen, he was in The Social Network, The Amazing Spider-Man and Hacksaw Ridge.
Eddie Redmayne, 2004
Won for his West End debut in Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?. Since then he has appeared in Richard II at the Donmar, tackled Fantastic Beasts, and won an Oscar for playing Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything.
Tom Hardy, 2003
Won for Stephen Adly Guirgis’s In Arabia, We’d All Be Kings at Hampstead and Lars Norén’s Blood at the Royal Court.
Subsequently a regular on the small and large screen — Taboo, The Dark Knight Rises, Mad Max: Fury Road, Dunkirk…
Chiwetel Ejiofor, 2000
Won for Joe Penhall’s Blue/Orange at the National Theatre, he went on to play Othello at the Donmar and Everyman in Rufus Norris’s first production as director of the National. On screen, he was Oscar-nominated for 12 Years a Slave.
Eve Best, 1999
Won for ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore opposite Jude Law at the Young Vic before playing Hedda in Hedda Gabler at the Almeida, the Duchess of Malfi at the Old Vic and Cleopatra at Shakespeare’s Globe. On the big screen, she was Wallis Simpson in The King’s Speech.
