Gillian Anderson won the Natasha Richardson best actress award at the 60th London Evening Standard theatre awards for 'A Streetcar Named Desire.'
Anderson, 46, whose performance as the southern belle Blanche Dubois won many hearts, said that the honour was extraordinary, as she had wanted to do "Streetcar for 30 years and had tried for the past 10 to get it off the ground," the Guardian reported.
She added that she had burst into tears with delight when she got the news of Benedict Andrews agreeing to direct the play at the Young Vic.
The ceremony, held at the London Palladium, also honored Tom Hiddleston, Tom Stoppard and Kate Bush honoured with major prizes, while Rona Munro's trilogy of plays about the Scottish kings, James I, II, and III, won best play and Jeremy Herrin picked up the best director award.
Also, David Byrne and Fatboy Slim's 'Imelda Marcos story Here Lies Love' received a Beyond Theatre award "for pushing the boundaries of a musical".
The awards, which have been given out every year since 1955, saw guests like David and Victoria Beckham, Benedict Cumberbatch, Anne-Marie Duff and James McAvoy, Idris Elba and Tom Ford.
