Beloved Australian actress Sarah Snook is best known for her role as Shiv Roy in Succession, but she’s also had leading roles in major films, such as Sister of War and Predestination.
She is in the spotlight more than ever, especially after her Critics Choice win for the drama All Her Fault, which is set in Victoria.
Following her win, her role in the show has also earned her nominations in the Actor Awards (formerly the Screen Actors Guild Awards) and the Golden Globes.
Not only that, she has taken home wins at the Primetime Emmy Awards, the Tony Awards, Critics Choice Awards, and the Golden Globe Awards.
However, away from the spotlight, she is very much content with her family life.
Scroll to read more about her life below.
Who is Sarah Snook’s husband?
Sarah is now happily married to Dave Lawson. The pair were friends for a long time before any sparks flew between them.
They first met in 2014, and their relationship did not develop for years because they were both always in relationships with other people.
But things changed when they quarantined together in 2020 and were both finally single.
“The stakes were higher because we didn’t want to f*** up the friendship,” she told the UK’s Sunday Times.
“But also, because we were isolated from everybody, we didn’t have to answer to anybody. ‘Why are they leaving the pub together?’ or ‘How is this going to work? He’s got a son, and you’ve got a career overseas.’ We were, like, we can work that out. We’re adults.”
She said it was a pivotal time for them.
“At the beginning of the pandemic last year, I got locked down in Melbourne with one of my best mates and we fell in love,” she told Vogue Australia in 2021.
“We’ve been friends since 2014, lived together, travelled together, always excited to see each other, but totally platonic. We’ve just never been single at the same time.”
While she keeps her romance largely out of the spotlight, she took to Instagram to reveal that she proposed three months into their romance.
“For me, marriage was the only way that we could do this,” she said.
“I’ve never felt this with any other relationship, that it needed that sort of hand-on-heart commitment, and marriage was suddenly very important to me, to signify that to the world and to the person who I love.”
Opening up more about it to the Sunday Times, she said she couldn’t buy a ring, but ended up proposing with a pair of scissors, which she looped over her finger. Dave’s son was present, so she asked for his permission first.
Then, she turned to her now-husband, while on one knee, and asked him to marry her.
They then tied the knot in February 2021 in a small ceremony in their backyard in Brooklyn, with her housemates and Succession co-star Aussie Ash Zukerman in attendance.
“There’s a really lovely grace in that without the pandemic, we might not have ended up together so quickly,” she added.
They also worked together on the romantic comedy Pause, and Sarah admitted this made her see Dave in a different light.
“That’s when I was like: ‘Oh, that’s interesting,’” she told Vogue Australia.
The pair are each other’s biggest cheerleaders and often share their pride for one another’s accomplishments.
When she accepted her first Tony in June 2025, she thanked the love of her life.
“An exceptional thank you to my husband, my soulmate. You are so brilliant, holding the fort down and keeping our family together,” she gushed.
Did Sarah Snook have a baby?
Sarah kept her pregnancy under wraps until she walked the red carpet for the season four premiere of Succession in March 2023.
“[I] brought someone I have not met, but am intimate with,” she told Extra at the time.
Not only that, she was pregnant with her first child while she filmed the award-winning series, which was special for the actress.
She first announced the news about becoming a mum on Instagram in 2023, with a photo of her watching the show, with part of her child’s head at the bottom.
“I just watched the final episode of the final season of something that has changed my life. And now, my life has changed again,” she wrote.
At the time, the gender of her baby was unknown, but she later revealed more at the Golden Globe Awards in January 2024.
“She’s the best,” Sarah said on the red carpet. “She’s standing. Not walking yet, but she’s standing supported. She’s great. I love her.”
That same month, she provided more details about her daughter and her maternal instincts.
“She’s a very cute baby, and people already go, ‘Oh, what a beautiful girl!’ And there’s a sense of protection that kicks in for me, and goes, ‘Whoa, she’s more than that. Or she will be.’ She is genuinely very cute — and I don’t think that’s just a biased mother saying that,” she said.
“But I am wary of that being the language that she experiences growing up.”
Her work as Shiv Roy led to her first Emmy win that same year, taking out the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series category.
In her heartfelt and emotional speech, she paid tribute to her daughter.
“The biggest thank you, I think, is to someone who won’t understand anything that I’m saying at the moment…” she said.
“I carried her with me in this last season, and really, it was she who carried me. The proximity of her life growing inside gave me the strength to do this and this performance.”
“I love you so much and it’s all for you, from here on out.”
She also excited fans when she updated her profile picture on Instagram, with a photo that appeared to be of her daughter.
While the actress has gushed about her daughter on several occasions, she has not revealed her name publicly.
