Actress Rose Byrne honored as Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year with parade and roast | EUROtoday

Rose Byrne, recent off her Golden Globe Award win and Oscar nomination for the main function in “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” will probably be honored Friday because the 2026 Woman of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals.

Byrne, who additionally has starred in “Bridesmaids,” “Neighbors,” “Insidious” and “Damages,” will participate in a parade by the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts. After that, she’s going to obtain her pudding pot award at a celebratory roast. She will then attend a efficiency of Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 177th manufacturing “Salooney Tunes.”

In her overview of “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” The Associated Press’ Jocelyn Noveck wrote that the movie gave Byrne “a chance to display versatility and grit in surely the toughest dramatic role of her career.”

Actor Michael Keaton, recognized for his roles in movies comparable to “Batman,” “Birdman,” “Beetlejuice” and “Spotlight,” is the 2026 Man of the Year. He acquired his pudding pot Feb. 6.

“We are thrilled to honor Rose Byrne as our Woman of the Year,” Hasty Pudding Theatricals President Daisy Nussbaum stated in an announcement. “Hot off a Golden Globe win and an Oscar nomination, it’s only right that she receives the most prestigious award of all: a pudding pot.”

The Pudding is the oldest theatrical group within the nation and one of many oldest on this planet. Since 1951, it has bestowed the award yearly on ladies together with actors Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Scarlett Johansson and Annette Bening. Last yr, the winner was “Wicked” star Cynthia Erivo.

Byrne, who’s Australian, additionally acted in “Juliet, Naked,” “Get Him to the Greek” and “28 Weeks Later.” Her theater credit embody “Medea, You Can’t Take it With You” on the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and she’s going to star reverse Kelli O’Hara within the revival of “Fallen Angels” on Broadway beginning in March.