Jeremy Strong and Wife Emma Wall Have Date Night at the 2024 Tonys — and Yes, He's Wearing Brown

Jeremy Strong and his wife Emma Wall lit up the red carpet at the 2024 Tony Awards.

The pair appeared in matching black-tie ensembles, with Strong, 45, once again embracing his favorite clothing colour, brown. The Succession the actor wore a brown velvet jacket and white collared shirt with black trousers, a black western bow tie and black dress shoes. Wall, a Danish-born documentary filmmaker, looked elegant in a simple black dress with a textured bodice and an embellished layered pearl necklace.

At the awards show on Sunday, June 16, Strong took home the award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for his role in Enemy of the people. He was nominated alongside William Jackson Harper, Leslie Odom Jr., Liev Schreiber and Michael Stuhlbarg.

“I felt overwhelmed,” Strong told PEOPLE of his emotional acceptance speech. “I was on stage a few hours ago today. It’s quite another thing to disappear in a play than to stand up like you in front of your community. But I felt overwhelmed with gratitude.”

He continued: “To be honest, any competition when it comes to creative work is ridiculous in itself, so this belongs to me as much as it belongs to William, and Liev, and Michael, and Leslie. But I feel very honored and touched. ”

Emma Wall and Jeremy Strong at the Tony Awards, June 16, 2024.

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Strong and Wall met at a party in 2012 and married in 2016. The couple share three daughters.

As further evidenced by his Tony look, the Emmy winner has a penchant for wearing shades of brown, which the fad readily admitted in his February 2023 profile. GQ.

“My wife told me someone said something like, ‘The three things you’ll be sure of are death, taxes, and Jeremy Strong wearing brown. I don’t know, it’s inexplicable,” he told the outlet about his favorite look, which he also called “monk chic.”

He went on to explain, “I spend so much of my life wearing costumes, I feel almost stripped down in my style. It’s so consistent and neutral that almost every time I put on any wardrobe I feel profoundly different from my core self.”

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In Strong’s Tony-nominated role, he portrays Dr. Thomas Stockmann in a new revival of Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play. Michael Imperioli (Soprano Family, White Lotus) and Victoria Pedretti (The Haunting of Hill House, you) also stars in the production.

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Jeremy Strong and Emma Wall at the Met Gala 2023. Jamie McCarthy/Getty

Earlier this month, Strong told PEOPLE that he was not interested in reprising his role as Kendall Roy on HBO’s hit drama succession, which had its series finale in May 2023

“I’m sure there is a desire for more [Succession]”, said the actor, “I would really transfer that dollar to [creator] Jesse Armstrong.”

“But I think in terms of the role I played, it reached its breaking point,” he adds. “So for me it’s something that’s very happily left alone.”

The Tony Awards air live from Lincoln Center in New York on Sunday, June 16, on CBS (8 ET/PT) and stream on Paramount+.

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