This is Fresh Air. I'm Terry Gross. Our guest today is actor Rose Byrne, known for both drama and comedy.

She's now one of the few actresses to be nominated for an Oscar and a Tony in the same year.

She's currently on Broadway in the revival of the Noel Coward play Fallen Angels. She spoke with fresh airs and Marie Boldenado.

When Rose Byrne appeared on American TV in 2007 in the show Damages, it was clear she was a

dramatic force. Playing opposite Glenn Close, she was nominated for two Emmys and two Golden Globe Awards.

Then she starred in a series of comedies,

Get Em to the Greek, Bridesmaids, and Neighbors, and it became apparent that she's also one of our

most gifted comedic actors. Her work in the last year alone shows that she's so good at playing

complex characters in any genre. She stars opposite Seth Rogan in the Apple TV

comedy Platonic, and she received an Oscar nomination for her raw performance in the film

If I Had Legs at Kick You. Now Rose Byrne is on Broadway in the play Fallen Angels. It's a revival of the 1925 Noel Coward play, a farce about two wealthy women married,

English, who go a bit crazy when they hear that the man they had both been involved with

before they were married is coming to town.

Both Byrne and her co-star, Kelly O'Hara, have been nominated for Tony's for

Best Actress in a Play. Rose Byrne, welcome to Fresh Air. Hi, thanks so much. Now, this play is from

the 1920s. It was scandalous back then because it was about two women talking about having affairs with the same man before they

were married. Had you known this play or had you performed Noel Coward before? And I'll say that

Coward is a British playwright known for writing sophisticated, witty comedies about the upper class,

you know, funny with a lot going on underneath.

I wasn't familiar with the play.

Scott Ellis, who's the artistic director of the Roundabout Theatre, brought it to me and

Kelly O'Hara for a benefit reading for The Roundabout.

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