"At the recent Tony Awards who won the award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in the play ""The Audience"" by Peter Morgan?"
The Queen (2006 film) Fellowes, a brother-in-law of Diana, Princess of Wales; Janvrin was the "deputy" private secretary until 1999. However, the film is accurate in depicting Janvrin as the person who delivered the news of Diana's accident to the Queen at Balmoral during the night. The film's screenwriter Peter Morgan adapted his script for the stage, under a new title, "The Audience", with Helen Mirren continuing her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II. The play opened in London and then transferred to the Broadway stage, where Mirren won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. The film exceeded box-office expectations; with a
Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play The Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play is an honor presented at the Tony Awards, a ceremony established in 1947 as the Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, to actresses for quality supporting roles in a Broadway play. The awards are named after Antoinette Perry, an American actress who died in 1946. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, to "honor the best performances and stage productions