Jean Smart, who appeared on Broadway earlier this season in “Call Me Izzy,” was one of a number of actors with Broadway credentials who won at the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 11 at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.
For her role as stand-up comedian Deborah Vance in the HBO series “Hacks,” Smart won her third Golden Globe in the category of Best Performance by a Female Actor in a TV Musical or Comedy. In addition to her recent turn in “Call Me Izzy,” Smart was a 2001 Tony nominee for appearing in “The Man Who Came to Dinner.” She made her Broadway debut as Marlene Dietrich in the 1981 bioplay “Piaf.”
Michelle Williams, who was nominated for a Tony for her performance in the 2016 Broadway production of “Blackbird,” also won a third Golden Globe last night, for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television. In the limited series “Dying for Sex,” Williams stars as a wife who leaves her husband and goes in search of physical gratification after she’s diagnosed with terminal cancer. Williams is currently appearing Off-Broadway in “Anna Christie” at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn.
Rose Byrne won the 2026 Globe as Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy for her portrayal of a mother struggling to take care of her ailing child in “If I Had Legs I’d Kill You.” In 2014, Byrne starred in the Broadway revival of “You Can’t Take It with You.” This spring, she will return to Broadway in a new staging of “Fallen Angels.”
Stellan Skarsgård, who appeared in the 2008 film adaptation of the Broadway musical “Mamma Mia!” and its sequel “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again,” also won at the Globes. Playing a difficult father trying to reunite with his estranged daughters, Skarsgård was awarded the prize as Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture.
Every Golden Globe acting category included performers who had been on Broadway, including four of the six nominees in Best Performance by an Actress in Television Series — Drama. Actress Rhea Seehorn took home the award for her role as a fantasy romance novelist who finds her world turned upside down after all but 13 human beings on the planet are transformed into a hive mind by an alien virus. In 2001, Seehorn made her Broadway debut as an understudy in Neil Simon’s 2001 play “45 Seconds from Broadway.”
Overseen by Dick Clark Productions, Golden Globe winners are chosen by journalists from around the world.
