Elizabeth Debicki Is 'Crown'-ed a 2024 Golden Globes Winner for Touching Turn Showing Princess Diana's Final Days

Mar. 15, 2025

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It was a night to remember for the 2024Golden Globes' best supporting actress on television:Elizabeth Debicki.

“Thank you so much! Thank you to the creatives of this show for trusting me with this part,“The Crownactress shared after winning the award. “To cast and crew, to my beautiful pretend children who I just adore, to my mom and my dad… My partner Kristian who said don’t thank me so that I’m not on television but I’m gonna thank you anyway. Who else? Goodness, maybe that’s it.”

Debicki, 33, portrayedPrincess Dianaon the final two seasons ofThe Crown, which focused on the royal’s final days before her fatal car crash in August 1997.

The actress told PEOPLE thatthe weight of playing Dianafor the Netflix series was not lost on her, sharing, “I did a lot of research for this role. I probably spent about a year doing research and that just filled in all these pieces and made me have such deep, deep respect and love for this person who I didn’t know so much about.”

Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana on ‘The Crown’ Season 6.Des Willie/Netflix

Des Willie/Netflix

She continued, “The battle that she went through in terms of media, public perception. I didn’t know things about the divorce and how difficult all of that was for everybody in the family.”

The Crownwas nominated for four awards at Sunday’s Golden Globes. Debicki was previously nominated for best supporting actress in a television series – drama at last year’s Globes. She is also up for outstanding supporting actress in a drama series at next week’s Emmy Awards.

Elliott stars as Natalie “Sugar” Berzatto, the doting older sister of chefCarmy(Jeremy Allen White), onThe Bear.

Chuck Hodes/FX

Despite having a bit of a complicated on-screen relationship, Elliott previously told PEOPLE that she and Allen havea tight bond, saying, “I really feel likeJeremycould be my brother in real life.”

“I adore him,” she shared. “I showed a picture of my grandfather when my grandfather was younger to Jeremy, and they look so similar, it’s eerie almost. And he showed me a picture of his sister and was like, ‘You guys look alike.’”

The Bearscored five nominations at this year’s Golden Globes including a nod for White.

ForYellowjacketsseason 2, Ricci returned to play adult plane crash survivor Misty.

Christina Ricci as Misty on “Yellowjackets” Season 2.Kailey Schwerman/SHOWTIME

The 43-year-old actress opened up aboutplaying the quirky characterin an interview with theLos Angeles Times, saying, “ I find her entertaining. I like watching her. She’s not someone I would want to know in real life. I feel like I understand her, and I think once you understand a person, all their behavior is justified. I’m not an actor who feels that I have to like the character I’m playing in order to play them.”

She was also nominated for her role on the Showtime thriller for outstanding supporting actress in a drama series at last year’sEmmy Awards.

OnSuccession’s final season, Smith-Cameron, 66, starred as Waystar Royco’s corporate counsel Gerri Kellman opposite Roman Roy (Kieran Culkin).

J. Smith-Cameron on “Succession”.

Despite their characters' on-screen tensions, Smith-Cameron has spoken abouther friendship with Culkin, tellingEsquirein March, “We were kind of always flirting on set.

She added: “It was never for one second a real flirtation. It was that set-crush kind of thing.”

The drama series' final seasonscoredthe most television nominations with nine total at Sunday’s Golden Globes.

Streepjoinedthe third season ofOnly Murders in the Buildingas Loretta Durkin opposite protagonists Mabel Mora (Selena Gomez), Charles-Haden Savage (Steve Martin) and Oliver Putnam’s (Martin Short).

Meryl Streep on “Only Murders in the Building”.Patrick Harbron/Hulu

Patrick Harbron/Hulu

Short recalled during a For Your Consideration event in Los Angeles last month that he and Streep, 74, felt nervous on set before their first scene.

“I’ve known Meryl a little bit through the years but on the first day of shooting, I was a little unusually nervous for me, because I was thinking, ‘I’m doing a two-person scene with Meryl Streep,'” he said, perThe Hollywood Reporter. After shooting the scene, he recalled, “Meryl said to me, ‘OK, so my nerves are now down to half.’ So I guess she was nervous working with me.”

In the third season ofTed Lasso, Waddingham, 49, returned to play Rebecca Welton, the owner of AFC Richmond, opposite Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis).

The actress opened up about playing a woman who is starting fresh after a divorce, tellingHarper’s Bazaarin May, “I’ve cared so deeply how that demographic is portrayed, and how people find themselves in life, newly divorced and trying to find their way, so that will be a very strange thing for me to not be speaking on her behalf anymore.”

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