'Thank you for loving me': Sarah Paulson praises partner Holland Taylor on stage after winning first Tony Award

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Sarah Paulson won her first Tony Award on Sunday, June 16, at the David H Koch Theater at Lincoln Center.

The 49-year-old, who portrayed the award-winning role as Toni in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' play, ‘Appropriate’, acknowledged her partner Holland Taylor.

"Holland, thank you for loving me," she said during her acceptance speech.

Sarah Paulson on her 'Appropriate' performance

Paulson then thanked the cast and creators of ‘Appropriate', which also bagged the 2024 Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Play and Best Lighting Design of a Play.

"I am standing here tonight because of the mighty talent that is Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. I will never be able to convey to you my gratitude to you for trusting me,” said the actress.

"Some nights when I am backstage... I think about the walls of theaters all over this magical town holding the impact of each and every one of you in this room and all of those who came before," she added.

"And I think how lucky those walls are to bear witness to the relentless interrogation of human experience that we endeavor to explore nightly for each other," Paulson said.

Paulson made her first Broadway performance in over a decade with ‘Appropriate’ with her last theater performance coming in ‘Collected Stories’ in 2010, and ‘The Glass Menagerie’ in 2005. 

The writer of ‘Appropriate’, Jacobs-Jenkins, is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, per People.

The other star cast features Corey Stoll, Michael Esper, Ella Beatty, Elle Fanning, and Natalie Gold.

It was penned first in 2013 and had numerous productions around the country and internationally, before finally reaching Broadway in December 2023.

Writer Jacobs-Jenkins recently opened up about his play with Vogue, “Sarah, at her heart and in her origins, is a theater artist — an actual artist, who is interested in pushing envelopes and upending expectations about what people can and cannot do," he said.

"So I think, in some ways, she was the perfect person for this play," he added.

Internet reflects on Sarah Paulson's Tony Award win

Netizens praised Paulson for her incredible return to Broadway. 

A person wrote on Facebook, "I can hear her cry from the picture. Love me some Sarah ♡."

"One of the great actors of her generation," another wrote.

One user praised, "She is sooooo good in this role!"

"Such an incredibly talented actress 👏," another joined in. 

A person shared, "I have loved this woman since the first time I saw her her on American Horror Story....she was in several of the following seasons and then I saw her in American Crime Story as Marica Clark...then followed her amazing transformance as Linda Tripp in American Crime Story Impeachment. Was a brilliant performance and honestly you couldn't tell it wasn't the actual Linda Tripp."

One congratulated Paulson, "Well deserved I have always loved her acting.."

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