Margaret Tyzack and Derek Jacobi have been crowned Best Actress and Best Actor at the Laurence Olivier Awards 2009.

Margaret Tyzack won the Best Actress prize for her performance in Enid Bagnold's 'The Chalk Garden' and Derek Jacobi won Best Actor for his portrayal of Malvolio in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night in the Donmar West End season at the Wyndham's theatre.

Margaret said she wanted to thank the Awards panel, who she forgot to mention in her acceptance speech. 'When you get up there you hyperventilate even though you thought you were as cool as a cucumber! I took so long to get there! You pass people’s smiling faces, even those you know who hate you! It's really funny.'

Best Actor winner Derek Jacobi said: 'I truly did not expect to win because, in a sense, Malvolio is not the star of the show, so I thought I'd be up for Best Supporting Actor, but this is lovely! It's a bonus!

Veteran actress and Star Silksoundbooks reader Sian Phillips, who presented the award to Jacobi, said 'Derek and I go back a long way, I played his grandmother in I, Claudius.'

All of us here at Silksoundbooks send our congratulations to the talented duo.

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