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Olivier winner Sharon D Clarke: 'Not a penny came in until June. I thanked God for a voiceover job'

She went from rave diva with Nomad to winning her third Olivier award on Sunday for Death of a Salesman. Yet the London actor isn’t immune to the storms battering theatre

Sharon D Clarke wasn’t expecting to win an Olivier award for best actress. “It’s a joy,” she says in the flush of the morning after. “I was among ladies who are at the top of their game. I was glad to be in the category, and glad I had been noticed but never in a million years did I think I would win.”

Then again, she didn’t expect to win her first Olivier in 2014 either (“‘shocked’ is not the right word”). That one was for a supporting role in The Amen Corner. Another came last year, for her performance in the musical, Caroline, Or Change. With this third notch, she has become the first person to be nominated in all four performing categories of the Oliviers, winning the latest honour for her sensational turn as Linda Loman in Marianne Elliott and Miranda Cromwell’s Death of a Salesman at the Young Vic in London.

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