Following a triumphant awards sweep – last week’s Best Supporting Actress Bafta means an Oscar is the only one remaining – Da’Vine Joy Randolph, 37, hopes people will stop describing her performance in The Holdovers as a “breakthrough” role.
Her first big break, after all, was in 2011, appearing in the West End in London a mere six months after graduating from Yale University in the US with a master’s in musical theatre.