Here's What the Stars of Succession Are Up to Now
The final season of Succession premiered a year ago, with no current plans in the works for a season five or any spin-offs.
"I do think that this succession story that we were telling is complete," series creator Jeremy Armstrong said, referring to the tale of who succeeded Logan Roy (Brian Cox) at Waystar Royco. (Spoiler: It was Tom, played by Matthew Macfadyen.) "This is the muscular season to exhaust all our reserves of interest, and I think there’s some pain in all these characters that’s really strong."
In the months since the show aired, it has accrued numerous awards, including sweeping the delayed 2023 Emmys (with wins in Best Drama, Best Actres for Sarah Snook, Best Actor for Kieran Culkin, and Best Supporting Actor for Matthew Macfadyen) and bringing home big wins at the 2024 Golden Globes. But what have the key players been up to in the months since wrapping the show?
Brian Cox
On the heels of his turn as Logan Roy, Cox is stepping into the shoes of another powerful paterfamilias, playing James Tyrone in a West End revival of Long Day’s Journey into Night, opening April 2.
Jeremy Strong
The actor, who played wayward heir Kendall Roy, is taking on a starring role in another twisted family drama: Amy Herzog’s reworking of the Ibsen play An Enemy of the People, opening March 18 on Broadway.
Sarah Snook
What do Oscar Wilde and Shiv Roy have in common, apart from a taste for elegant outfits? Sarah Snook, who is playing all 26 (!) roles in a London stage adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (open now).
Matthew Macfadyen
Who better than Tom Wambsgans to prepare an actor for battle? Macfadyen’s next role is a hush-hush part in the upcoming Deadpool 3. Star Ryan Reynolds says, “I’ll be starstruck.”
Kieran Culkin
It might not be a stretch for the actor who played Roman Roy to star in a film called A Real Pain, which just premiered at Sundance. Further afield: his part in the hit animated series Scott Pilgrim Takes Off.
J. Smith Cameron
On Succession, in-house lawyer Gerri Kellman wasn’t as buttoned-up as she seemed. The actress who played her is similarly adventurous: She starred in the video for Sleater-Kinney’s single “Say It Like You Mean It.”
Fisher Stevens
The communications skills of Waystar flack Hugo Baker were questionable, but Stevens’s own are not in doubt: He was the director of the delightful recent docuseries about David Beckham.
Sydney Lemmon and Peter Friedman
She played a love interest for Kendall; he played Waystar honcho Frank. Now the pair are starring in the play Job, about an eventful therapy session for a burned-out tech worker. Job has had a string of hit Off-Broadway runs and is at NYC’s Connelly Theater through March 3.
This story appears in the March 2024 issue of Town & Country. SUBSCRIBE NOW
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