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Award
The Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play is an honor presented at the
Tony Awards , a ceremony established in 1947 as the Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, to actresses for quality supporting roles in a
Broadway play. The awards are named after
Antoinette Perry , an American actress who died in 1946. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of
The Broadway League and the
American Theatre Wing , to "honor the best performances and stage productions of the previous year."
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Originally called the "Tony Award for Actress, Supporting or Featured (Dramatic),"
Patricia Neal first won the award at the
inception of the ceremony for her portrayal of Regina Hubbard in
Lillian Hellman 's
Another Part of the Forest . Before 1956, nominees' names were not made public:
[2] the change was made by the awards committee to "have a greater impact on theatregoers".
[3] The award was renamed in 1976, when
Shirley Knight became the first winner under the new title for her role as Carla in
Robert Patrick 's
Kennedy's Children . Its most recent recipient is
Miriam Silverman , for the role of Mavis Parodus Bryson, in
The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window .
Six actresses (
Christine Baranski ,
Judith Ivey ,
Judith Light ,
Swoosie Kurtz ,
Audra McDonald , and
Frances Sternhagen ) hold the record for most awards in this category, each with two total. Portrayals of Ruth Younger in
A Raisin in the Sun and Mavis Parodus Bryson in
The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window have won twice. Supporting actresses in two of three plays in
Neil Simon 's
Eugene trilogy (
Brighton Beach Memoirs and
Broadway Bound ) were nominated for the Tony, and featured actresses in six parts of
August Wilson 's
The Pittsburgh Cycle have also been nominated for the award.
Recipients
1947 award winner
Patricia Neal
Maureen Stapleton won for The Rose Tattoo (1951)
Beatrice Straight won for The Crucible (1953)
Jo Van Fleet won for The Trip to Bountiful (1954)
Una Merkel won for The Ponder Heart (1956)
1958 award winner
Anne Bancroft
Julie Newmar won for The Marriage-Go-Round (1959)
Anne Revere won for Toys in the Attic (1960)
Colleen Dewhurst won for All the Way Home (1961)
Sandy Dennis won for A Thousand Clowns (1963)
Barbara Loden in After the Hall (1964)
Alice Ghostley won for The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window (1965)
Marian Seldes won for A Delicate Balance (1967)
Jane Alexander won for The Great White Hope (1969)
Blythe Danner won for Butterflies Are Free (1970)
Frances Sternhagen won twice The Good Doctor (1974) and The Heiress (1995)
Rita Moreno won for The Ritz (1975)
Shirley Knight won for Kennedy's Children (1976)
Two-time award winner
Swoosie Kurtz in 1981 and 1986
Mary Alice won for Fences (1987)
Margaret Tyzack won for Lettice and Lovage (1990)
Christine Baranski won twice for The Real Thing (1984) and Rumors (1989)
Debra Monk won for Redwood Curtain (1993)
Two-time award winner
Audra McDonald
2000 award winner
Blair Brown
2001 award winner
Viola Davis
Katie Finneran won for Noises Off (2002)
Frances de la Tour won for The History Boys (2006)
Jennifer Ehle won for The Coast of Utopia (2007)
Angela Lansbury won for Blythe Spirit (2009)
2010 award winner
Scarlett Johansson
Ellen Barkin won for The Normal Heart (2011)
Judith Light won twice for Other Desert Cities (2012) and The Assembled Parties (2013)
Sophie Okonedo won A Raisin' in the Sun (2014)
Annaleigh Ashford won for You Can't Take it With You (2015)
Jayne Houdyshell won for The Humans (2016)
Cynthia Nixon won for The Little Foxes (2017)
Laurie Metcalf won for Three Tall Women (2018
Lois Smith won for The Inheritance (2020)
Miriam Silverman won for The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window (2023)
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Win total
2 Wins
Nomination total
5 Nominations
4 Nominations
3 Nominations
2 Nominations
Character win total
2 Wins
Mavis Parodus Bryson from The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
Ruth Younger from A Raisin in the Sun
Character nomination total
3 Nominations
Brooke Ashton from Noises Off
Honey from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Mavis Parodus Bryson from The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
2 Nominations
Bananas Shaughnessy from The House of Blue Leaves
Beneatha Younger from A Raisin in the Sun
Beverly from The Shadow Box
Big Mama Pollitt from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Birdie Hubbard from The Little Foxes
Charlotte from The Real Thing
Hannah Pitt (and others) from Angels in America
Harper Pitt (and others) from Angels in America
Lady Gay Spanker from London Assurance
Lady in Red from For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
Lavinia Penniman from The Heiress
Linda Loman from Death of a Salesman
Madge Kendal from The Elephant Man
Maria Merelli from Lend Me a Tenor
Marthy Owen from Anna Christie
Ruth Younger from A Raisin in the Sun
Productions with multiple featured nominations
Winners are in bold .
Multiple awards and nominations
Actress who have been nominated multiple times in any acting categories
Trivia
See also
Notes
References
^ Kirkley, Donald (April 21, 1968).
"Operation Frenzy Before the Tony Awards" .
The Baltimore Sun . p. T2. Archived from
the original on January 11, 2012. Retrieved December 24, 2011 . (subscription required)
^ Simons, Linda Keir (1994).
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ABC-CLIO . p. 137.
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978-0-87287-982-9 .
Archived from the original on 2013-06-22. Retrieved 2012-03-01 .
^ Gelb, Arthur (April 1, 1956).
"Popularizing the Tony Awards" .
The New York Times . Retrieved January 14, 2011 . (subscription required)
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"2022 Tony Awards Nominees" .
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External links
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