Sarah Snook Gives Birth, Welcomes 1st Child With Dave Lawson

A Roy baby! Sarah Snook revealed that she and husband Dave Lawson welcomed their first child together — just one day after the Succession series finale. 

“I just watched the final episode of the final season of something that has changed my life. And now, my life has changed again,” the Australia native, 35, wrote via Instagram on Monday, May 29, alongside a photo of herself and her newborn watching the last episode of the HBO hit. “Thank you for all the love and support.” 

Snook, who has played Siobhan “Shiv” Roy on Succession since its premiere in June 2018, announced she and Lawson, 44 — who tied the knot in 2021 — were expecting baby No. 1 during the show’s season 4 premiere in March. Shiv’s arc paralleled Snook’s own journey, with the character realizing she was pregnant with her and estranged husband Tom Wambsgan’s (Matthew Macfadyen) baby in episode 4 of the final season. 

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“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,” the Sleeping Beauty star continued on Monday. “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.” 

Snook noted that family satire will be a “career highlight” and “hard to top” moving forward, adding that she is both “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 gushed. “The people of this show ar