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Fil-Am actors Darren Criss, Nicole Scherzinger win big at 2025 Tony Awards

Published Jun 9, 2025 01:31 pm  |  Updated Jun 10, 2025 08:39 am

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  • Nicole Scherzinger and Darren Criss have once again proved that Pinoy talent is truly world-class, with bonth winning their first Tony Award recently.
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Fil-Am actors Nicole Scherzinger and Darren Criss have once again proved that Pinoy talent is truly world-class taking home  the Best Actor and Best Actress Awards for a musical, respectively, at the 78th Tony Awards, held at the Radio City Music Hall in New York on Sunday, June 8 (June 9 in the Philippines).
Nicole, 46, won her Tony for her performance as Norma Desmond in the musical play "Sunset Blvd," which also won the Best Musical Revival award.
During her emotional speech, Nicole mentioned that it was a dream come true for her, sharing how it is her first Tony Award.
"I wanna thank all of you so much for making this little Hawaiian-Ukrainian-Filipino girl's dream come true. I'm so proud to present," Nicole said.

Holding back her tears, Nicole added, "Growing up I always felt like I didn't belong but you all made me feel like I belong and I have come home. At last. So it there's anyone out there who feels like they don't belong or that their time hasn't come up yet, don't give up. Just keep giving and giving because the world needs your love and your light now more than ever."

In her red-carpet interview with E! News, Nicole mentioned that she is beyond grateful for winning the award.
"I'm just grateful, I'm grateful to God, because God has carried me when I wanted to give up. He has helped me through this entire process, so I give all the glory to him," Nicole said.
Meanwhile, Darren clinched his Tony for his performance as Oliver in the Musical play "Maybe Happy Ending."
The play also won five other Tony awards including Best Musical.

In his speech, Darren, 38, thanked his wife Mia for supporting him in his career.
"The real hero this for this remarkable journey is my wife, Mia, who took a massive swing in allowing me to do this. To allow this crazy upheaval in our life, to make this logistically possible, and for bearing the brunt of raising two tiny friends under three, so that I could raise a singing robot at the Belasco Theatre eight times a week," Darren said.
"You're the very pedestal that upholds the shiny spinny bit in our lives, and your love and your support for me and our beautiful children, combined with the miracle of working on something as magical as Maybe Happy Ending, has been and will always be award enough," he added.
Making his way into the EGOT league, Darren won his first Emmy award in 2018 for his performance as Andrew Cunanan on the show "The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story."
Here is the full list of the winners for the Tony Awards 2025:
Best Play: Purpose (Branden Jacobs-Jenkins)
Best Musical: Maybe Happy Ending
Best Book of a Musical: Maybe Happy Ending (Will Aronson and Hue Park)
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre: Maybe Happy Ending (Will Aronson and Hue Park)
Best Revival of a Play: Eureka Day (Jonathan Spector)
Best Revival of a Musical: Sunset Blvd.
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play: Cole Escola, for Oh, Mary!
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play: Sarah Snook, for The Picture of Dorian Gray
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical: Darren Criss, for Maybe Happy Ending
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical: Nicole Scherzinger for Sunset Blvd.
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play: Francis Jue, for Yellow Face
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play: Kara Young, for Purpose
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical: Jak Malone, for Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical: Natalie Venetia Belcon, for Buena Vista Social Club
Best Scenic Design of a Play: Miriam Buether and 59, for Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Best Scenic Design of a Musical: Dane Laffrey and George Reeve, for Maybe Happy Ending
Best Costume Design of a Play: Marg Horwell, for The Picture of Dorian Gray
Best Costume Design of a Musical: Paul Tazewell, for Death Becomes Her
Best Lighting Design of a Play: Jon Clark, for Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Best Lighting Design of a Musical: Jack Knowles, for Sunset Blvd.
Best Sound Design of a Play: Paul Arditti, for Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Best Sound Design of a Musical: Jonathan Deans, for Buena Vista Social Club
Best Direction of a Play: Sam Pinkleton, for Oh, Mary!
Best Direction of a Musical: Michael Arden, for Maybe Happy Ending
Best Choreography: Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck, for Buena Vista Social Club
Best Orchestrations: Marco Paguia, for Buena Vista Social Club
Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre: Harvey Fierstein
Special Tony Award: The musicians who make up the band of Buena Vista Social Club, and The Illusions & Technical Effects of Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award: Celia Keenan-Bolger
Regional Theatre Tony Award: The Muny
Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre: Great Performances, Michael Price, New 42, and The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

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