The saying goes that when one door closes, another opens, and for Succession actress Sarah Snook, that couldn’t be more true. Snook spent four seasons playing the calculating and complex Shiv Roy, and after the show ended on Sunday night, she revealed that although that chapter of her life has ended, a new one has begun: she’s now a mom.
Snook’s pregnancy, which was publicly revealed at the Succession Season four premiere, was written into the show, and on Monday, she posted a photo of herself watching the series finale, holding her new baby. While Snook can be seen looking at the screen, her child is turned away, likely in disgust, at the sight of that Disgusting Brother Tom Wambsgans.
Snook wrote something of a love letter to her time on the show, which she says changed her life. She ended her caption by saying, “And now, my life has changed again,” alluding to her role as a new mom.
“It’s hard to express what this show has meant to me. The places I got to go, the immense talent I got to work with…it breaks my heart that it is all over. But my heart had to be this full of all the memories, good times, challenges and triumphs, to be able to break at all…so that makes me grateful,” she wrote.
Snook continued, “To have been blessed to join this crazy adventure of a show will be a career highlight, which will no doubt be hard to top. I am so, so proud and humbled by everyone’s hard work season after season: we all set the bar high for each other, then exceeded it and excelled, in every department.
“The friendships, the scripts, the locations, the one liners, the early mornings, the last minute changes, all the highs and lows: I’m going to miss it all,” she wrote. “The people of this show are a talented bunch, and I’m proud to have worked alongside them, it’s the people I will miss most of all.”
She closed out her post by writing, “I just watched the final episode of the final season of something that has changed my life. And now, my life has changed again. Thank you for all the love and support.”
Snook, who is married to Australian comedian Dave Lawson, did not reveal the baby’s name or when she gave birth. This is their first child together, though Snook is the stepmother to Lawson’s son from a previous relationship.
Succession Seasons 1 through 4 are now streaming on Max.
