Tom Hiddleston and Gillian Anderson have been crowned best actor and best actress at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards.

Gillian Anderson shines at awards after she has been crowned best actress for her great performance in a revival of Tennessee William's A Streetcar Named Desire at the Young Vic where she played the role of Blanche DuBois against competiton from Billie Piper and Kristin Scott Thomas. Tom Hiddleston, on the hand, won the award for his exceptional performance in Coriolanus at the Donmar Warehouse. Other nominees for the award are Mark Strong and Ben Miles.

Jeremy Herrin won as best actor for his great staging of plays on the best-selling historical novels of Hilary Mantel Bring up The Bodies and Wolf Hall produced by the Swan Theater in the Aldwych Theater and Strat-upon-Avon Theater of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

For her impressive performance in a drama, the Dogfight, Actress Laura Jane Matthewson received the emergent talent award. The Dogfight is notably a misogyny drama that was presented at the Southwark Playhouse.

The editor's award was received by singer Kate Bush for her "Before The Dawn" comeback concerts staged in London thirty-three years after her last live performance. The special awards was also given to Tom Stoppard as The Greatest Living Playwright. This is to acknowledge his over a half century of work that actually has him won four Tony Awards and an Academy Awards.

The awards night was a star-studded evening. The event happened at the London Palladium and among the famous guests were Naomi Campbell, Victoria and David Beckham, Sienna Miller, Sir Ian McKellen and Benedict Cumberbatch with his fiancée Sophie Hunter.

The Evening Standard Theatre Awards is awarded to great people who made great contributions in the theater industry. The event was truly a huge success, especially for those who were acknowledged for their wonderful works.