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# Beverley Knight MBE nominated for an Olivier Award for her role in ‘Sylvia’
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/beverley-knight-mbe-nominated-for-an-olivier-award-for-her-role-in-sylvia/
- Published: 2023-03-01T12:30:44.000Z
- Updated: 2023-03-01T11:55:54.000Z
- Description: The English recording artist and musical actress – who also stars as a judge on the ITV series Starstuck – plays Emmeline Pankhurst in the Old Vic’s Sylvia, a role which she has reprised, having also played the historic feminist figure on the West End in 2018.
- Author: Catherine Muxworthy
- Tags: Arts, Beverley Knight, Old Vic

Wolverhampton-born **Beverley Knight** MBE has been nominated in the **Actress in the Supporting Role in a Musical** category at this year’s **Olivier Awards**. The English recording artist and musical actress – who also stars as a judge on the ITV series *Starstuck* – plays Emmeline Pankhurst in the **Old Vic**’s *Sylvia*, a role which she has reprised, having also played the historic feminist figure on the West End in 2018.

Beverley Knight is nominated alongside **Maimuna Memon**, who plays Nikki in the **National Theatre** production of *Standing at the Sky’s Edge* at the **Olivier Theatre**. **Liza Sadovy** and **Marisha Wallace** have also been nominated, both for performances in the **Young Vic**’s **Rodgers & Hammerstein**’s *Oklahoma!*.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/beverley-knight-in-sylvia-e1677671708842.jpg)

Knight stars alongside **Sharon Rose**, who plays the lead role of Sylvia in the Old Vic production which tells the story of the often lesser-known Pankhurst who was at the heart of the Suffragette movement.

*The Stage* reported on Knight in *Sylvia*: “\[She\] is resplendent as campaigning mastermind matriarch Emmeline Pankhurst, her voice a molten, golden glory as she propels her daughters on to the front line.”

Knight’s musical credits also include *The Bodyguard*, *Memphis*, *Cats*, *Cinderella*, *Sweet Charity*, *Pantoland*, *The Drifters Girl* and *Sister Act*. The actor has already been awarded two Olivier Awards; the first in 2015 for *Memphis*, and the second in 2022 for *The Drifters Girl*.