Right from her breakthrough in TV comedies in the early 2000s to her award-winning performance Oscars 2019, British actress Olivia Colman is fast becoming both an international treasure and a major Hollywood player.
After winning the Golden Globe for best actress, she Sprung a surprise for scooping Oscars award on her first nominations. This was quite hilarious as she put it in her brief speech because many people had to go for a number of nominations to win the prestigious award.
At the age of 44, Colman has reached star status after appearing in a significant series of TV shows and films.
Look at Colman when She first caught our attention as a sidekick to Robert Webb and David Mitchell in sketch shows and sitcoms like Peep Show, Bruiser and That Mitchell and Webb Look.
She appeared in a BBC Four drama to mark the centenary of Mills & Boon, playing a typist who writes a steamy hospital romance in 2008.
Colman played mum Debbie in BBC Two’s Beautiful People a year later, a story about a boy who rose from his suburban English upbringing to running a New York fashion house.
The wife of Tom Hollander’s priest in BBC sitcom Rev often found herself below his flock in her husband’s priorities.
The actress showed a different side in the hard-hitting independent film Tyrannosaur in 2011, and credits director Paddy Considine with allowing her to show her dramatic skills.
That led to roles in tougher shows like Accused (Mo’s Story), an instalment of Jimmy McGovern’s crime anthology. It earned her a Bafta TV Award for best supporting actress in 2013.
At the same ceremony, Olivia won the best female performance in a TV comedy for playing Sally the PA to Hugh Bonneville’s Olympic
Another big hit came in the form of ITV’s crime drama Broadchurch, in which she played DS Ellie Miller opposite David Tennant.
She showed up as a gloriously hideous stepmother in Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s comedy Fleabag – and received yet another Bafta TV nomination.
Her role as spy boss Angela in glossy drama The Night Manager led to her first Golden Globe win – for best supporting actress in a limited TV series in 2017.
Two years on, she now has another Golden Globe, thanks to her delectable performance as the fragile Queen Anne in The Favourite.
And she will be seen playing another monarch later in 2019 when she takes over the role of Queen Elizabeth II in Netflix’s royal saga The Crown.