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Sarah Snook’s Wilde Adventure: The Australian actress, best known for her work on “Succession,” brings all twenty-six characters in “The Picture of Dorian Gray” to Broadway.

The Australian actress, best known for her work on “Succession,” brings all twenty-six characters in “The Picture of Dorian Gray” to Broadway.

After those first fifteen minutes, when she comes around the edge of the screen and into full view of the audience, the actor’s relative tininess is a shock: the billboard-size image—vertical as a cellphone—has made her seem so huge and clear and close. The stage seems thick with phantoms, and so, in a way, does Snook’s career, which has taken her from drama school in Sydney to a film career (she appeared in both “Steve Jobs” and “The Glass Castle”) to the London stage (she played the temptress Hilde Wangel opposite Ralph Fiennes in Ibsen’s “Master Builder” at the Old Vic), and then to her most famous part, her Emmy Award–winning run as Shiv in “Succession.” I met Snook at the Algonquin Hotel—we sat in an empty, slightly desolate event space called the Oak Room, the onetime site of the much-missed supper club where the singer Sylvia Syms collapsed and died right at Cy Coleman’s feet. [In just the last season, Jeremy Strong was on Broadway with “ An Enemy of the People,” Peter Friedman starred in “Job,” Juliana Canfield was in “Stereophonic,” Zoe Winters was in “Walden,” Brian Cox was in “A Long Day’s Journey Into Night” in London, J. Smith Cameron was in “Juno and the Paycock,” and now Snook’s “brother” Kieran Culkin is just a few doors away, at the Palace, for “Glengarry Glen Ross.”]

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