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Award for role in Broadway play
The
Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play is presented by the
American Theatre Wing and
The Broadway League
[1] at an annual ceremony in
Manhattan . The award is given to actresses for quality leading roles in a
Broadway play.
[2] Despite the award first being presented in 1947, there were no nominees announced until 1956. There have been two ties in this category, and one three-way tie.
Winners and nominees
indicates the winner
Ingrid Bergman won for
Joan of Lorraine (1947)
Helen Hayes won twice
Judith Anderson won the award for
Medea (1948)
Shirley Booth won this award twice in 1950 and 1953
Audrey Hepburn won for
Ondine (1954)
Julie Harris won a record breaking five times in this category
Anne Bancroft won for
The Miracle Worker (1960)
Joan Plowright won for
A Taste of Honey (1961)
Margaret Leighton won for Night of the Iguana (1962)
Sandy Dennis won for Ash Wednesday (1964)
Rosemary Harris won for
The Lion in Winter (1965)
Maureen Stapleton won for The Gingerbread Lady (1971)
Colleen Dewhurst won for A Moon for the Misbegotten (1973)
Ellen Burstyn won for
Same Time, Next Year (1975)
Jessica Tandy won twice in 1978 and 1981
Glenn Close won twice in 1984 and 1992
Stockard Channing won for A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1985)
Lily Tomlin won for The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1986)
Joan Allen won for Burn This (1988)
Pauline Collins for Shirley Valentine (1989)
Maggie Smith won for Lettice and Lovage (1990)
Mercedes Ruehl won for Lost in Yonkers (1991)
Madeline Kahn won for The Sisters Rosenweig (1993)
Cherry Jones won twice for The Heiress (1995) and for Doubt (2005)
Janet McTeer won for A Doll's House (1997)
Judi Dench won for Amy's View (1999)
Jennifer Ehle won for The Real Thing (2000)
Mary-Louise Parker won twice for Proof (2001) and The Sound Inside (2020)
Lindsay Duncan won for Private Lives (2002)
Vanessa Redgrave won for Long Day's Journey into Night (2003)
Phylicia Rashad won for Raisin in the Sun (2004)
Marcia Gay Harden won for God of Carnage (2009)
Viola Davis won for Fences (2010)
Cicely Tyson , age 91, won for A Trip to Bountiful (2012)
Audra McDonald won for Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill (2014)
Helen Mirren won for The Audience (2015)
Glenda Jackson won for
Three Tall Women (2018)
Elaine May at the age 87 is the oldest winner in this category. She won for
The Waverly Gallery (2019)
Jodie Comer won for
Prima Facie (2023)
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Multiple wins
Multiple nominations
9 Nominations
8 Nominations
7 Nominations
6 Nominations
5 Nominations
4 Nominations
3 Nominations
2 Nominations
Multiple character wins
3 Wins
2 Wins
Amanda Prynne from Private Lives
Annie from The Real Thing
Joan of Arc from Joan of Lorraine and The Lark
Mary Tyrone from Long Day's Journey Into Night
Nora Helmer from A Doll's House and A Doll's House Part 2
Multiple character nominations
5 Nominations
Josie Hogan from A Moon for the Misbegotten
4 Nominations
Medea from Medea
Martha from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Nora Helmer from A Doll's House and A Doll's House, Part 2
3 Nominations
Amanda Prynne from Private Lives
Beatrice from Much Ado About Nothing
Claire Zachanassian from The Visit
Joan of Arc from Joan of Lorraine , The Lark , and Saint Joan
Lady Macbeth from Macbeth
Lena Younger from A Raisin in the Sun
Maggie Pollitt from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Mary Tyrone from Long Day's Journey into Night
2 Nominations
Amanda Wingfield from The Glass Menagerie
Anna Christopherson from Anna Christie
Annie from The Real Thing
Blanche DuBois from A Streetcar Named Desire
Claire from A Delicate Balance
Eleanor of Aquitaine from The Lion in Winter
Elizabeth I from Vivat! Vivat Regina! and Mary Stuart
Elizabeth Proctor from The Crucible
Emma from Betrayal
Emma 'Billie' Dawn from Born Yesterday
Fonsia Dorsey from The Gin Game
Golda Meir from Golda and Golda's Balcony
Heidi Holland from The Heidi Chronicles
Hesione Hushabye from Heartbreak House
Josephine from A Taste of Honey
Julie Cavendish from The Royal Family
Kyra Hollis from Skylight
Lola Delaney from Come Back, Little Sheba
Portia from The Merchant of Venice
Princess Cosmonopolis from Sweet Bird of Youth
Regina Giddens from The Little Foxes
Ruth from The Homecoming
Sarah Melody from A Touch of the Poet & More Stately Mansions
Sarah Norman from Children of a Lesser God
Sheila from A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Characters nominated for both the
Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical and
Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
Productions with multiple nominations
Winners are in bold .
Multiple awards and nominations
Actress who have been nominated multiple times in any acting categories
See also
References
^ Gans, Andrew (December 18, 2007).
"League of American Theatres and Producers Announces Name Change"
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Playbill . Retrieved September 13, 2013. The League of American Theatres and Producers was renamed "The Broadway League".
^ Kirkley, Donald (April 21, 1968).
"Operation Frenzy Before the Tony Awards" .
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"1956 Tony Awards Nominees" .
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"1957 Tony Awards Nominees" .
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"2018 Tony Awards Nominees" .
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"2019 Tony Awards Nominees" .
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"2020 Tony Awards Nominees" .
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"2022 Tony Awards Nominees" .
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