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Annual acting award given in the United States
The Tony Award for Best Featured Actor 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 actors for quality supporting roles in a
Broadway play. 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 Actor, Supporting or Featured (Dramatic) , the award was first presented to
Arthur Kennedy at the
3rd Tony Awards for his portrayal of Biff Loman in
Arthur Miller 's
Death of a Salesman . 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] Its most recent recipient is
Brandon Uranowitz for his performance in
Leopoldstadt .
Frank Langella holds the record for having the most wins in this category, with a total of two; he is the only person to win the award more than once. Richard Roma in
Glengarry Glen Ross , Phil Hogan in
A Moon for the Misbegotten , and Mason Marzac in
Take Me Out are the only characters to take the award multiple times, all winning twice. A supporting actor in each of
Neil Simon 's
Eugene trilogy plays (
Brighton Beach Memoirs ,
Biloxi Blues , and
Broadway Bound ) has taken the Tony, whereas featured actors in both parts of
Tony Kushner 's
Angels in America series have also won the award.
Winners and nominees
indicates the winner
Arthur Kennedy won for
Death of a Salesman (1949)
Eli Wallach won for The Rose Tattoo (1951)
Ed Begley won for Inherit the Wind (1956)
1959 award winner
Charlie Ruggles
Roddy McDowall won for The Fighting Cock (1961)
Walter Matthau won for A Shot in the Dark (1962)
Alan Arkin won for Enter, Laughing (1963)
Hume Cronyn won for Hamlet (1964)
Jack Albertson won for The Subject was Roses (1965)
1967 award winner
Ian Holm
Al Pacino won for Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? (1969)
Vincent Gardenia won for The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1972)
John Lithgow won for The Changing Room (1973)
Frank Langella , the only person to win the award multiple times, won in 1975 and 2002
Jonathan Pryce won for Comedians (1977)
Michael Gough won for Bedroom Farce (1979)
Matthew Broderick won for Brighton Beach Memoirs (1983)
1984 award winner
Joe Mantegna
John Mahoney won for The House of Blue Leaves (1986)
1992 award winner
Laurence Fishburne
B.D. Wong won in 1989. He is the only actor of Asian descent to win this category
Charles Durning won for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1990)
Kevin Spacey won for Lost in Yonkers (1991)
Jeffrey Wright won for Angels in America (1993)
1996 award winner
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
2003 award winner
Denis O'Hare
Liev Schreiber won for Glengarry Glen Ross (2005)
Ian McDiarmid won in 2006 for Faith Healer
Billy Crudup won for The Coasts of Utopia (2007)
Eddie Redmayne won for Red (2010)
2011 award winner
John Benjamin Hickey
Courtney B. Vance won for Lucky Guy (2013)
Mark Rylance won for Twelfth Night (2014)
Nathan Lane won for Angels in America (2017)
David Alan Grier won for A Soldier's Play (2020)
Jesse Tyler Ferguson won for Take Me Out (2022)
Brandon Uranowitz won for Leopoldstadt (2023)
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Wins total
2 wins
Nominations total
3 nominations
2 nominations
Character win total
2 wins
Character nomination total
3 nominations
2 nominations
Productions with multiple nominations
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Big Fish, Little Fish -
Martin Gabel and
George Grizzard .
The Subject Was Roses -
Jack Albertson and
Martin Sheen .
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead -
Paul Hecht ,
Brian Murray , and
John Wood .
Vivat! Vivat Regina! -
Douglas Rain and
Lee Richardson .
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby -
Edward Petherbridge and
David Threlfall .
Brighton Beach Memoirs -
Matthew Broderick and
Željko Ivanek .
Glengarry Glen Ross -
Joe Mantegna and
Robert Prosky .
Loot -
Charles Keating and
Joseph Maher .
The Grapes of Wrath -
Terry Kinney and
Gary Sinise .
Two Trains Running -
Laurence Fishburne and
Roscoe Lee Browne .
Angels in America: Millennium Approaches -
Joe Mantello and
Stephen Spinella .
Angels in America: Perestroika -
David Marshall Grant and
Jeffrey Wright .
Love! Valour! Compassion! -
Stephen Bogardus ,
John Glover , and
Anthony Heald .
Seven Guitars -
Roger Robinson and
Ruben Santiago-Hudson .
The Beauty Queen of Leenane -
Tom Murphy and
Brían F. O'Byrne .
Death of a Salesman -
Kevin Anderson and
Howard Witt .
Dirty Blonde -
Kevin Chamberlin and
Bob Stillman .
Proof -
Larry Bryggman and
Ben Shenkman .
Morning's at Seven -
William Biff McGuire and
Stephen Tobolowsky .
Long Day's Journey into Night -
Philip Seymour Hoffman and
Robert Sean Leonard .
Take Me Out -
Denis O'Hare and
Daniel Sunjata .
Glengarry Glen Ross -
Alan Alda ,
Gordon Clapp , and
Liev Schreiber .
Awake and Sing! -
Mark Ruffalo and
Pablo Schreiber .
The Coast of Utopia -
Billy Crudup and
Ethan Hawke .
Radio Golf -
Anthony Chisholm and
John Earl Jelks .
The Seafarer -
Conleth Hill and
Jim Norton.
The Norman Conquests -
Stephen Mangan and
Paul Ritter .
Golden Boy -
Danny Burstein and
Tony Shalhoub .
Twelfth Night -
Paul Chahidi ,
Stephen Fry , and
Mark Rylance .
Lobby Hero -
Michael Cera and
Brian Tyree Henry .
The Inheritance -
John Benjamin Hickey and
Paul Hilton .
Slave Play - Ato Blankson-Wood and James Cusati-Moyer.
Take Me Out -
Jesse Tyler Ferguson , Michael Oberholtzer, and
Jesse Williams .
Trivia
See also
Notes
References
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"Operation Frenzy Before the Tony Awards" .
The Baltimore Sun .
Tribune Company . p. T2. Archived from
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^ Simons, Linda Keir (1994).
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ABC-CLIO . p. 137.
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"2019 Tony Awards Nominees" .
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"2020 Tony Awards Nominees" .
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