Sarah Snook's Real Name: Sarah Snook

Quick answer: The actress is known professionally as Sarah Snook. The AACTA Festival and the Television Academy independently identify Adelaide, South Australia, as her birthplace. The AACTA Festival dates the birth to December 1, 1987. The Television Academy lists a December 1 birthday without a year. This page titles her under the public name.

Real name and early life

Independent publishers identify her under the professional name Sarah Snook. The AACTA Festival says she was born in Adelaide, South Australia, on December 1, 1987. The Television Academy independently lists the birthday as December 1 and the birthplace as Adelaide, South Australia.

Career highlights

The AACTA Festival says her first professional role was in the Australian medical drama All Saints in 2009, and lists later films including Not Suitable for Children, Predestination, The Glass Castle, Winchester, An American Pickle, and Pieces of a Woman, as well as the series The Beautiful Lie, Black Mirror, and Robot Chicken. It says she received an AACTA award for best lead actress in the television drama Sisters of War in 2012, another in 2015 for Predestination, and a Film Critics Circle of Australia best actress award for Not Suitable for Children (2013). The same account says that in 2018 she was cast as Shiv Roy in the HBO series Succession, a role for which she won two Golden Globe Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award, and that in 2025 she won the Laurence Olivier Award and the Tony Award for best lead actress in a play for the West End and Broadway productions of The Picture of Dorian Gray. It also names the later Peacock miniseries All Her Fault. The Television Academy independently records a 2023 Primetime Emmy Award for outstanding lead actress in a drama series, as Shiv Roy in Succession, earlier supporting-actress nominations for that series in 2020 and 2022, and 2026 nominations for All Her Fault, including outstanding lead actress in a limited or anthology series or movie.

Name notes for searchers

People looking up Sarah Snook are looking for the same actress, including the Succession role and later Dorian Gray work most often associated with her name. This page uses the public professional name. Search traffic often uses the professional name Sarah Snook alone in many lookups.