Nicole Scherzinger Wins Greatest Actress in a Musical at 2025 Tony Awards

Nicole Scherzinger felt the love on the 2025 Tony Awards.

On Sunday, June 8, the star, 46, received Greatest Efficiency by a Main Actress in a Musical for her Broadway debut as Norma Desmond in Sundown Blvd. Her win got here shortly after she performed “As If We Never Said Goodbye” throughout the ceremony, incomes a standing ovation at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor in New York Metropolis.

In her emotional acceptance speech, Scherzinger started by saying, “I simply must thank God for carrying me each step of the best way. I provide you with all of the glory.”

Scherzinger continued by saying she was honored to be acknowledged alongside her fellow nominees Megan Hilty (Death Becomes Her), Audra McDonald (Gypsy), Jasmine Amy Rogers (BOOP! The Musical) and Jennifer Simard (Death Becomes Her), whom she referred to as “distinctive warrior ladies.”

The previous Pussycats Dolls singer thanked the Tony Awards “for making this little Hawaiian-Ukrainian-Filipino woman’s dream come true” and continued by giving gratitude to her mom, who Scherzinger stated had her at 18 and “gave every thing up for me.”

She then turned her consideration to fiancé and former Scottish rugby participant Thom Evans, 40, who she stated “believes in me after I neglect to consider in myself.”

Scherzinger additionally thanked Sundown Blvd. composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, whom she stated it has been an “honor” to work with, earlier than concluding her tear-filled speech by sharing how monumental her position within the Broadway revival has been for her.

“Rising up, I at all times felt like I did not belong, however you all have made me really feel like I belong and I’ve come house ultimately,” Scherzinger stated to the viewers. “So if there’s anybody who seems like they do not belong or your time hasn’t come, do not hand over. Simply carry on giving and giving as a result of the world wants your love and light-weight greater than ever. It is a testomony that love at all times wins.”

Scherzinger introduced Jamie Lloyd‘s revival of Webber’s basic Sundown Blvd. from London to Broadway in October 2024. Scherzinger stars as a fading movie star who grows enamored with screenwriter Joe Gillis in Hollywood within the late Forties; the musical relies on the Academy Award-winning 1950 movie of the identical title.

“I have worked many, many years to build up to this moment, and it’s changed my life,” Scherzinger instructed PEOPLE just lately whereas discussing the present and her Tony nomination. “I’ve by no means been extra joyful, I feel, as a result of I at all times had a lot inside me that I felt like folks did not see or perceive. It simply feels good now to have the ability to share that with the world.” 

“It is a dream that I’ve had since I used to be a child,” she added of acting on Broadway. “And to lastly notice my dream… I actually really feel, to cite one in every of my traces in Sundown, that ‘I’ve come house ultimately.’ “