When Rachel Zegler was announced as the winner of Best Actress in a Musical at the 2026 Laurence Olivier Awards, she initially wasn’t sure she’d won. “It was one of those crazy things,” she says. “Vanessa Williams presented it, and she didn’t do the traditional ‘The winner is …’ She just said, ‘Get up here, Rachel.’ So I didn’t know what was happening. Then my best friend was like, ‘Go, go, go!’”