A pregnancy and a secret wedding: Everything we know about Succession star Sarah Snook.

It was Sarah Snook's big break. 

But when the Aussie actor first read the script for the TV series Succession, she had doubts about playing the role of Siobhan 'Shiv' Roy.

"I was... like 'I don't know why I'm going in for Shiv, I'm not Shiv, I can't play this character,'" she told Harper's Bazaar UK.

"She's very different from me, so I think I was intimidated." 

For Snook, who grew up in Adelaide as the youngest of three girls, playing the only daughter of Scottish media magnate Logan Roy, was far from the life she knew. 

"I thought, 'This is not me, I don’t know what a billionairess is like, I can’t play it,'" she told Harper's Bazaar.

However, she decided to give it her best shot, telling the publication, "I said, 'I'll give you what I can do'."

Now over four years and four seasons later, the 35-year-old has been catapulted to worldwide fame thanks to her role in the hit series, which follows the wealthy and scandalous Roy family.

As we prepare for season four of Succession to hit our screens next week, here's a look at everything we know about Sarah Snook's life inside and outside the spotlight. 

Sarah Snook's early career. 

Snook always knew she wanted to become an actor. 

Growing up, she won a drama scholarship to Scotch College in Adelaide, before moving to Sydney to study at Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art. 

"I always knew I wanted to pursue drama, I felt that it was always a given that it was going to be a part of my life," she told NIDA.

Acting allowed Snook to follow in the footsteps of her grandmother, who was a theatre actor in London.

"Although I never got to meet her as she passed away before I was born, I feel as though that theatre thread has followed through and now I’m holding the mantle."

After graduating NIDA, Snook scored roles in TV series such as All Saints and Packed to the Rafters and the film Sisters of War, which saw her win Best Lead Actress in a Television Drama at the AACTA Awards in 2015.

She was later shortlisted for the lead role in the 2011 film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which she described as a "random twists of fate".

Sarah Snook's secret wedding with Aussie comedian Dave Lawson.

Outside of her career, Snook is married to Aussie actor and comedian Dave Lawson.

Lawson has appeared in the ABC TV series It’s a Date, along with MasterChef's Poh Ling Yeow, and the 2014 series Utopia. He also co-hosted the Nickelodeon Australian Kids’ Choice Awards with Sophie Monk in 2006. 

Snook and Lawson were friends for years before they started dating and even starred appeared together in the 2015 film Oddball.

After keeping things "totally platonic", the pair eventually found love during Melbourne's lockdown in 2020. 

"At the beginning of the pandemic last year, I got locked down in Melbourne with one of my best mates and we fell in love," Snook told Vogue in 2021. 

"We’ve been friends since 2014, lived together, travelled together, always excited to see each other, but totally platonic. We’ve just never been single at the same time."

Snook later proposed and the pair married in a secret wedding in her backyard in Brooklyn in February 2021. 

"It’s been a ride. There’s so much heartache and sadness in the world, but on a micro personal level, I’ve been very fortunate. There’s a really lovely grace in that without the pandemic, we might not have ended up together so quickly."

Since then, the couple have continued to keep their relationship relatively private. 

Sarah Snook's pregnancy.

Two years after tying the knot, Snook and Lawson are now expecting their first child together. 

The 35-year-old showed off her baby bump during Succession's season four premiere in New York City this week.  

"It's exciting!" she told Entertainment Tonight, adding that she doesn't have "too much longer" before she welcomes her first child. 

"Like two months? Well, I'm at 32 weeks."

Image: Jamie McCarthy/Getty.

Snook was pregnant while filming the fourth season. But at that stage, she wasn't showing. 

"I mean, you couldn't super tell," she said. "Because it's not super big, at least at the moment."

The actor previously told Harper's Bazaar in 2021, she "definitely" wanted to have kids in the future but it was about "managing the balance" with her career. 

"I, maybe naively, would like to keep as much going forward as I can career-wise, but that’s about the support you have around you and the partner you’re doing that with."

Feature Image: Getty/Mamamia.