Ariana DeBose, before her epic Oscar win: the West Side Story star made history as the first LGBT woman of colour to win an Academy Award, but was already a well-known theatre name …

• DeBose was in a nail salon when Steven Spielberg called to tell her she got the starring role of Anita in West Side Story – but it was the culmination of years of work
• She’d already had smaller parts in Netflix’s The Prom alongside Nicole Kidman and in Schmigadoon; now she’s working alongside Samuel L. Jackson in Argylle