Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play

American theatre award for Broadway actresses

Tony Award for
Best Actress in a Play

2025 Recipient: Sarah Snook

Awarded for| Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
Location| New York City
Presented by| American Theatre Wing, The Broadway League
Currently held by| Sarah Snook for The Picture of Dorian Gray (2025)
Website| TonyAwards.com

The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading 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 leading 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."[1][2]

The award was originally called the Tony Award for Actress—Play. It was first presented to Ingrid Bergman and Helen Hayes at the 1st Tony Awards for their portrayals of Mary Grey / Joan of Arc and Addie Bemis in Joan of Lorraine and Happy Birthday, respectively. Before 1956, nominees' names were not made public;[3] the change was made by the awards committee to "have a greater impact on theatregoers".[4]

There have been two ties and one three-way tie in this category. Julie Harris holds the record for having the most wins and nominations in this category, with a total of five wins from nine nominations. Medea in the play of the same name is the character to take the award the most times, winning three times.

## Winners and nominees

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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) 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 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) Dame 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) Dame 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) Dame Helen Mirren won for The Audience (2015) Jessica Lange won for Long Day's Journey into Night (2016) Glenda Jackson won for Three Tall Women (2018) Elaine May won for The Waverly Gallery (2019) Jodie Comer won for Prima Facie (2023) Sarah Paulson won for Appropriate (2024) Sarah Snook won for The Picture of Dorian Gray (2025)

### 1940s

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1947
(1st)
Ingrid Bergman | Joan of Lorraine | Mary Grey / Joan of Arc |
Helen Hayes | Happy Birthday | Addie Bemis
1948
(2nd)
Judith Anderson | Medea | Medea |
Katharine Cornell | Antony and Cleopatra | Cleopatra
Jessica Tandy | A Streetcar Named Desire | Blanche DuBois
1949
(3rd) | Martita Hunt | The Madwoman of Chaillot | Countess Aurelia

### 1950s

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1950
(4th)
Shirley Booth | Come Back, Little Sheba | Lola Delaney |
1951
(5th)
Uta Hagen | The Country Girl | Georgie Elgin |
1952
(6th)
Julie Harris | I Am a Camera | Sally Bowles |
1953
(7th)
Shirley Booth | The Time of the Cuckoo | Leona Samish |
1954
(8th)
Audrey Hepburn | Ondine | Ondine |
1955
(9th)
Nancy Kelly | The Bad Seed | Christine Penmark |
1956
(10th)
Julie Harris | The Lark | Joan of Arc | [5]
Barbara Bel Geddes | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Maggie Pollitt
Gladys Cooper | The Chalk Garden | Mrs. St. Maugham
Ruth Gordon | The Matchmaker | Dolly Gallagher Levi
Siobhán McKenna | The Chalk Garden | Miss Madrigal
Susan Strasberg | The Diary of Anne Frank | Anne Frank
1957
(11th)
Margaret Leighton | Separate Tables | Ann Shankland / Sibyl Railton-Bell | [6]
Florence Eldridge | Long Day's Journey into Night | Mary Cavan Tyrone
Rosalind Russell | Auntie Mame | Mame Dennis
Sybil Thorndike | The Potting Shed | Mrs. Callifer
1958
(12th)
Helen Hayes | Time Remembered | The Duchess of Pont-Au-Bronc | [7]
Wendy Hiller | A Moon for the Misbegotten | Josie Hogan
Siobhán McKenna | The Rope Dancers | Margaret Hyland
Eugenie Leontovich | The Cave Dwellers | The Queen
Mary Ure | Look Back in Anger | Alison Porter
Jo Van Fleet | Look Homeward, Angel | Eliza Gant
1959
(13th)
Gertrude Berg | A Majority of One | Bertha Jacoby | [8]
Claudette Colbert | The Marriage-Go-Round | Content Lowell
Lynn Fontanne | The Visit | Claire Zachanassian
Kim Stanley | A Touch of the Poet | Sara Melody
Maureen Stapleton | The Cold Wind And The Warm | Aunt Ida

### 1960s

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1960
(14th)
Anne Bancroft | The Miracle Worker | Annie Sullivan | [9]
Margaret Leighton | Much Ado About Nothing | Beatrice
Claudia McNeil | A Raisin in the Sun | Lena Younger
Geraldine Page | Sweet Bird of Youth | Alexandra Del Lago
Maureen Stapleton | Toys in the Attic | Carrie Berniers
Irene Worth | Albertine Prine
1961
(15th)
Joan Plowright | A Taste of Honey | Josephine | [10]
Tallulah Bankhead | Midgie Purvis | Midgie Purvis
Barbara Baxley | Period of Adjustment | Isabel Haverstick
Barbara Bel Geddes | Mary, Mary | Mary McKellaway
1962
(16th)
Margaret Leighton | The Night of the Iguana | Hannah Jelkes | [11]
Gladys Cooper | A Passage to India | Mrs. Moore
Colleen Dewhurst | Great Day in the Morning | Phoebe Flaherty
Kim Stanley | A Far Country | Elizabeth von Ritter
1963
(17th)
Uta Hagen | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Martha | [12]
Hermione Baddeley | The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore | Flora Goforth
Margaret Leighton | Tchin-Tchin | Pamela Pew-Pickett
Claudia McNeil | Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright | Mama Morris
1964
(18th)
Sandy Dennis | Any Wednesday | Ellen Gordon | [13]
Elizabeth Ashley | Barefoot in the Park | Corie Bratter
Colleen Dewhurst | The Ballad of the Sad Café | Amelia Evans
Julie Harris | Marathon '33 | June Havoc
1965
(19th)
Irene Worth | Tiny Alice | Miss Alice | [14]
Marjorie Rhodes | All in Good Time | Lucy Fitton
Beah Richards | The Amen Corner | Sister Margaret Alexander
Diana Sands | The Owl and the Pussycat | Doris
1966
(20th)
Rosemary Harris | The Lion in Winter | Eleanor of Aquitaine | [15]
Sheila Hancock | Entertaining Mr Sloane | Kath
Kate Reid | Slapstick Tragedy | Celeste/Molly
Lee Remick | Wait Until Dark | Susy Hendrix
1967
(21st)
Beryl Reid | The Killing of Sister George | Sister George / June Buckridge | [16]
Eileen Atkins | The Killing of Sister George | Childie / Alice McNaught
Vivien Merchant | The Homecoming | Ruth
Rosemary Murphy | A Delicate Balance | Claire
1968
(22nd)
Zoe Caldwell | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Jean Brodie | [17]
Colleen Dewhurst | More Stately Mansions | Sara (Melody) Harford
Maureen Stapleton | Plaza Suite | Karen Nash / Murial Tate / Norma Hubley
Dorothy Tutin | Portrait of a Queen | Queen Victoria
1969
(23rd)
Julie Harris | Forty Carats | Ann Stanley | [18]
Estelle Parsons | The Seven Descents of Myrtle | Myrtle
Charlotte Rae | Morning, Noon and Night | Gertrude / Beryl / Filigree Bones
Brenda Vaccaro | The Goodbye People | Nancy (Silverman) Scott

### 1970s

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1970
(24th)
Tammy Grimes | Private Lives | Amanda Prynne | [19]
Geraldine Brooks | Brightower | Sara Brightower
Helen Hayes | Harvey | Veta Louise Simmons
1971
(25th)
Maureen Stapleton | The Gingerbread Lady | Evy Meara | [20]
Estelle Parsons | And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little | Catherine Reardon
Diana Rigg | Abelard and Heloise | Héloïse
Marian Seldes | Father's Day | Marian
1972
(26th)
Sada Thompson | Twigs | Ma / Dorothy / Celia / Emily | [21]
Eileen Atkins | Vivat! Vivat Regina! | Elizabeth I
Colleen Dewhurst | All Over | The Mistress
Rosemary Harris | Old Times | Anna
1973
(27th)
Julie Harris | The Last of Mrs. Lincoln | Mary Todd Lincoln | [22]
Jane Alexander | 6 Rms Riv Vu | Annie Miller
Colleen Dewhurst | Mourning Becomes Electra | Christine Mannon
Kathleen Widdoes | Much Ado About Nothing | Beatrice
1974
(28th)
Colleen Dewhurst | A Moon for the Misbegotten | Josie Hogan | [23]
Jane Alexander | Find Your Way Home | Jacqueline Harrison
Julie Harris | The Au Pair Man | Elizabeth Rogers
Madeline Kahn | In the Boom Boom Room | Chrissy
Rachel Roberts | The Visit / Chemin de Fer | Claire Zachanassian / Francine
1975
(29th)
Ellen Burstyn | Same Time, Next Year | Doris | [24]
Elizabeth Ashley | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Maggie Pollitt
Diana Rigg | The Misanthrope | Célimène
Maggie Smith | Private Lives | Amanda Prynne
Liv Ullmann | A Doll's House | Nora Helmer
1976
(30th)
Irene Worth | Sweet Bird of Youth | Alexandra Del Lago | [25]
Tovah Feldshuh | Yentl | Yentl
Rosemary Harris | The Royal Family | Julie Cavendish
Lynn Redgrave | Mrs. Warren's Profession | Vivie Warren
1977
(31st)
Julie Harris | The Belle of Amherst | Emily Dickinson | [26]
Colleen Dewhurst | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Martha
Liv Ullmann | Anna Christie | Anna Christopherson
Irene Worth | The Cherry Orchard | Ranevskaya
1978
(32nd)
Jessica Tandy | The Gin Game | Fonsia Dorsey | [27]
Anne Bancroft | Golda | Golda Meir
Anita Gillette | Chapter Two | Jennie Malone
Estelle Parsons | Miss Margarida's Way | Miss Margarida
1979
(33rd)
Constance Cummings | Wings | Emily Stilson | [28]
Carole Shelley | The Elephant Man | Madge Kendal
Jane Alexander | First Monday in October | Ruth Loomis
Frances Sternhagen | On Golden Pond | Ethel Thayer

### 1980s

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1980
(34th)
Phyllis Frelich | Children of a Lesser God | Sarah Norman | [29]
Blythe Danner | Betrayal | Emma
Maggie Smith | Night and Day | Ruth Carson
Anne Twomey | Nuts | Claudia Draper
1981
(35th)
Jane Lapotaire | Piaf | Édith Piaf | [30]
Glenda Jackson | Rose | Rose
Eva Le Gallienne | To Grandmother's House We Go | Grandie
Elizabeth Taylor | The Little Foxes | Regina Giddens
1982
(36th)
Zoe Caldwell | Medea | Medea | [31]
Katharine Hepburn | The West Side Waltz | Margaret Mary Elderdice
Geraldine Page | Agnes of God | Mother Miriam Ruth
Amanda Plummer | A Taste of Honey | Josephine
1983
(37th)
Jessica Tandy | Foxfire | Annie Nations | [32]
Kathy Bates | 'night, Mother | Jessie Cates
Kate Nelligan | Plenty | Susan Traherne
Anne Pitoniak | 'night, Mother | Thelma Cates
1984
(38th)
Glenn Close | The Real Thing | Annie | [33]
Rosemary Harris | Heartbreak House | Hesione Hushabye
Linda Hunt | End of the World | Audrey Wood
Kate Nelligan | A Moon for the Misbegotten | Josie Hogan
1985
(39th)
Stockard Channing | A Day in the Death of Joe Egg | Sheila | [34]
Sinéad Cusack | Much Ado About Nothing | Beatrice
Rosemary Harris | Pack of Lies | Barbara Jackson
Glenda Jackson | Strange Interlude | Nina Leeds
1986
(40th)
Lily Tomlin | The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe | Various Characters | [35]
Rosemary Harris | Hay Fever | Judith Bliss
Mary Beth Hurt | Benefactors | Sheila
Jessica Tandy | The Petition | Elizabeth Milne
1987
(41st)
Linda Lavin | Broadway Bound | Kate Jerome | [36]
Lindsay Duncan | Dangerous Liaisons | Marquise de Merteuil
Geraldine Page | Blithe Spirit | Madame Arcati
Amanda Plummer | Pygmalion | Eliza Doolittle
1988
(42nd)
Joan Allen | Burn This | Anna Mann | [37]
Blythe Danner | A Streetcar Named Desire | Blanche DuBois
Glenda Jackson | Macbeth | Lady Macbeth
Frances McDormand | A Streetcar Named Desire | Stella Kowalski
1989
(43rd)
Pauline Collins | Shirley Valentine | Shirley Valentine | [38]
Joan Allen | The Heidi Chronicles | Heidi Holland
Madeline Kahn | Born Yesterday | Emma 'Billie' Dawn
Kate Nelligan | Spoils of War | Elise

### 1990s

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1990
(44th)
Maggie Smith | Lettice and Lovage | Lettice Douffet | [39]
Geraldine James | The Merchant of Venice | Portia
Mary-Louise Parker | Prelude to a Kiss | Rita Boyle
Kathleen Turner | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Maggie Pollitt
1991
(45th)
Mercedes Ruehl | Lost in Yonkers | Bella Kurnitz | [40]
Stockard Channing | Six Degrees of Separation | Ouisa Kittredge
Julie Harris | Lucifer's Child | Karen Blixen
Cherry Jones | Our Country's Good | Liz Morden / Reverend Johnson
1992
(46th)
Glenn Close | Death and the Maiden | Paulina Salas Escobar | [41]
Jane Alexander | The Visit | Claire Zachanassian
Stockard Channing | Four Baboons Adoring the Sun | Penny McKenzie
Judith Ivey | Park Your Car in Harvard Yard | Kathleen Hogan
1993
(47th)
Madeline Kahn | The Sisters Rosensweig | Gorgeous Teitelbaum | [42]
Jane Alexander | The Sisters Rosensweig | Sara Goode
Lynn Redgrave | Shakespeare for My Father | Lynn Redgrave
Natasha Richardson | Anna Christie | Anna Christopherson
1994
(48th)
Diana Rigg | Medea | Medea | [43]
Anna Deavere Smith | Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 | Various Characters
Nancy Marchand | Black Comedy | Sophie
The White Liars | Mrs. Furnival
Joan Rivers | Sally Marr...and her escorts | Sally Marr
1995
(49th)
Cherry Jones | The Heiress | Catherine Sloper | [44]
Mary Alice | Having Our Say | Bessie Delany
Eileen Atkins | Indiscretions | Léonie
Helen Mirren | A Month in the Country | Natalia Petrovna
1996
(50th)
Zoe Caldwell | Master Class | Maria Callas | [45]
Carol Burnett | Moon Over Buffalo | Charlotte Hay
Rosemary Harris | A Delicate Balance | Agnes
Elaine Stritch | Claire
1997
(51st)
Janet McTeer | A Doll's House | Nora Helmer | [46]
Julie Harris | The Gin Game | Fonsia Dorsey
Shirley Knight | The Young Man From Atlanta | Lily Dale Kidder
Lia Williams | Skylight | Kyra Hollis
1998
(52nd)
Marie Mullen | The Beauty Queen of Leenane | Maureen Folan | [47]
Jane Alexander | Honour | Honor
Allison Janney | A View from the Bridge | Beatrice Carbone
Geraldine McEwan | The Chairs | Old Woman
1999
(53rd)
Judi Dench | Amy's View | Esme Allen | [48]
Stockard Channing | The Lion in Winter | Eleanor of Aquitaine
Marian Seldes | Ring Round the Moon | Madame Desmermortes
Zoë Wanamaker | Electra | Electra

### 2000s

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Year  | Actress  | Play  | Role(s)  | Ref.

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2000
(54th)
Jennifer Ehle | The Real Thing | Annie | [49]
Jayne Atkinson | The Rainmaker | Lizzie Curry
Rosemary Harris | Waiting in the Wings | May Davenport
Cherry Jones | A Moon for the Misbegotten | Josie Hogan
Claudia Shear | Dirty Blonde | Jo / Mae West
2001
(55th)
Mary-Louise Parker | Proof | Catherine Llewellyn | [50]
Juliette Binoche | Betrayal | Emma
Linda Lavin | The Tale of the Allergist's Wife | Marjorie Taub
Jean Smart | The Man Who Came to Dinner | Lorraine Sheldon
Leslie Uggams | King Hedley II | Ruby
2002
(56th)
Lindsay Duncan | Private Lives | Amanda Prynne | [51]
Kate Burton | Hedda Gabler | Hedda Gabler
Laura Linney | The Crucible | Elizabeth Proctor
Helen Mirren | The Dance of Death | Alice
Mercedes Ruehl | The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? | Stevie Gray
2003
(57th)
Vanessa Redgrave | Long Day's Journey into Night | Mary Tyrone | [52]
Jayne Atkinson | Enchanted April | Lotty Wilton
Victoria Hamilton | A Day in the Death of Joe Egg | Sheila
Clare Higgins | Vincent in Brixton | Ursula Loyler
Fiona Shaw | Medea | Medea
2004
(58th)
Phylicia Rashad | A Raisin in the Sun | Lena Younger | [53]
Eileen Atkins | The Retreat from Moscow | Alice
Tovah Feldshuh | Golda's Balcony | Golda Meir
Anne Heche | Twentieth Century | Lily Garland / Mildred Plotka
Swoosie Kurtz | Frozen | Nancy Shirley
2005
(59th)
Cherry Jones | Doubt | Sister Aloysius Beauvier | [54]
Laura Linney | Sight Unseen | Patricia
Mary-Louise Parker | Reckless | Rachel
Phylicia Rashad | Gem of the Ocean | Aunt Ester
Kathleen Turner | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Martha
2006
(60th)
Cynthia Nixon | Rabbit Hole | Becca Corbett | [55]
Kate Burton | The Constant Wife | Constance Culver Middleton
Judy Kaye | Souvenir | Florence Foster Jenkins
Lisa Kron | Well | Lisa Kron
Lynn Redgrave | The Constant Wife | Mrs. Culver
2007
(61st)
Julie White | The Little Dog Laughed | Diane | [56]
Eve Best | A Moon for the Misbegotten | Josie Hogan
Swoosie Kurtz | Heartbreak House | Hesione Hushabye
Angela Lansbury | Deuce | Leona Mullen
Vanessa Redgrave | The Year of Magical Thinking | Joan Didion
2008
(62nd)
Deanna Dunagan | August: Osage County | Violet Weston | [57]
Eve Best | The Homecoming | Ruth
Kate Fleetwood | Macbeth | Lady Macbeth
S. Epatha Merkerson | Come Back, Little Sheba | Lola Delaney
Amy Morton | August: Osage County | Barbara Weston-Fordham
2009
(63rd)
Marcia Gay Harden | God of Carnage | Veronica | [58]
Hope Davis | God of Carnage | Annette
Jane Fonda | 33 Variations | Katherine Brandt
Janet McTeer | Mary Stuart | Mary Stuart
Harriet Walter | Elizabeth I

### 2010s

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2010
(64th)
Viola Davis | Fences | Rose Maxson | [59]
Valerie Harper | Looped | Tallulah Bankhead
Linda Lavin | Collected Stories | Ruth Steiner
Laura Linney | Time Stands Still | Sarah Goodwin
Jan Maxwell | The Royal Family | Julie Cavendish
2011
(65th)
Frances McDormand | Good People | Margie Walsh | [60]
Nina Arianda | Born Yesterday | Emma 'Billie' Dawn
Lily Rabe | The Merchant of Venice | Portia
Vanessa Redgrave | Driving Miss Daisy | Daisy Werthan
Hannah Yelland | Brief Encounter | Laura Jesson
2012
(66th)
Nina Arianda | Venus in Fur | Vanda | [61]
Tracie Bennett | End of the Rainbow | Judy Garland
Stockard Channing | Other Desert Cities | Polly Wyeth
Linda Lavin | The Lyons | Rita Lyons
Cynthia Nixon | Wit | Vivian Bearing
2013
(67th)
Cicely Tyson | The Trip to Bountiful | Carrie Watts | [62]
Laurie Metcalf | The Other Place | Juliana Smithton
Amy Morton | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Martha
Kristine Nielsen | Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike | Sonia
Holland Taylor | Ann | Ann Richards
2014
(68th)
Audra McDonald | Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill | Billie Holiday | [63]
Tyne Daly | Mothers and Sons | Katharine Gerard
Cherry Jones | The Glass Menagerie | Amanda Wingfield
Estelle Parsons | The Velocity of Autumn | Alexandra
LaTanya Richardson | A Raisin in the Sun | Lena Younger
2015
(69th)
Helen Mirren | The Audience | Queen Elizabeth II | [64]
Geneva Carr | Hand To God | Margery
Elisabeth Moss | The Heidi Chronicles | Heidi Holland
Carey Mulligan | Skylight | Kyra Hollis
Ruth Wilson | Constellations | Marianne
2016
(70th)
Jessica Lange | Long Day's Journey into Night | Mary Tyrone | [65]
Laurie Metcalf | Misery | Annie Wilkes
Lupita Nyong'o | Eclipsed | The Girl
Sophie Okonedo | The Crucible | Elizabeth Proctor
Michelle Williams | Blackbird | Una Spencer
2017
(71st)
Laurie Metcalf | A Doll's House, Part 2 | Nora Helmer | [66]
Cate Blanchett | The Present | Anna Petrovna
Jennifer Ehle | Oslo | Mona Juul
Sally Field | The Glass Menagerie | Amanda Wingfield
Laura Linney | The Little Foxes | Regina Hubbard Giddens
2018
(72nd)
Glenda Jackson | Three Tall Women | A | [67]
Condola Rashad | Saint Joan | Joan of Arc
Lauren Ridloff | Children of a Lesser God | Sarah Norman
Amy Schumer | Meteor Shower | Corky
2019
(73rd)
Elaine May | The Waverly Gallery | Gladys Green  | [68]
Annette Bening | All My Sons | Kate Keller
Laura Donnelly | The Ferryman | Caitlin Carney
Janet McTeer | Bernhardt/Hamlet | Sarah Bernhardt
Laurie Metcalf | Hillary and Clinton | Hillary Clinton
Heidi Schreck | What the Constitution Means to Me | Heidi Schreck

### 2020s

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2020
(74th)
Mary-Louise Parker | The Sound Inside | Bella Baird | [69]
Joaquina Kalukango | Slave Play | Kaneisha
Laura Linney | My Name Is Lucy Barton | Lucy Barton
Audra McDonald | Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune | Frankie
2021 | No ceremony
2022
(75th)
Deirdre O'Connell | Dana H. | Dana H. | [70]
Gabby Beans | The Skin of Our Teeth | Sabina
LaChanze | Trouble in Mind | Wiletta Mayer
Ruth Negga | Macbeth | Lady Macbeth
Mary-Louise Parker | How I Learned to Drive | Li'l Bit
2023
(76th)
Jodie Comer | Prima Facie | Tessa Ensler | [71]
Jessica Chastain | A Doll's House | Nora Helmer
Jessica Hecht | Summer, 1976 | Alice
Audra McDonald | Ohio State Murders | Suzanne Alexander
2024
(77th)
Sarah Paulson | Appropriate | Antoinette "Toni" Lafayette | [72]
Betsy Aidem | Prayer for the French Republic | Marcelle Salomon Benhamou
Jessica Lange | Mother Play | Phyllis
Rachel McAdams | Mary Jane | Mary Jane
Amy Ryan | Doubt: A Parable | Sister Aloysius Beauvier
2025
(78th)
Sarah Snook | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Dorian Gray, et al. | [73]
Laura Donnelly | The Hills of California | Veronica / Joan
Mia Farrow | The Roommate | Sharon
LaTanya Richardson Jackson | Purpose | Claudine Jasper
Sadie Sink | John Proctor Is the Villain | Shelby Holcomb

## Statistics

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### Most wins

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5 wins

* Julie Harris

3 wins

* Zoe Caldwell
* Jessica Tandy

2 wins

* Shirley Booth
* Glenn Close
* Uta Hagen
* Helen Hayes
* Cherry Jones
* Margaret Leighton
* Mary-Louise Parker
* Irene Worth

### Most nominations

[edit]

9 nominations

* Julie Harris

8 nominations

* Rosemary Harris

7 nominations

* Colleen Dewhurst

6 Nominations

* Jane Alexander

5 nominations

* Stockard Channing
* Cherry Jones
* Laura Linney
* Mary-Louise Parker

4 nominations

* Eileen Atkins
* Glenda Jackson
* Linda Lavin
* Margaret Leighton
* Laurie Metcalf
* Estelle Parsons
* Maureen Stapleton
* Jessica Tandy
* Irene Worth

3 nominations

* Zoe Caldwell
* Helen Hayes
* Madeline Kahn
* Audra McDonald
* Janet McTeer
* Helen Mirren
* Kate Nelligan
* Geraldine Page
* Lynn Redgrave
* Vanessa Redgrave
* Diana Rigg
* Maggie Smith

2 nominations

* Joan Allen
* Nina Arianda
* Elizabeth Ashley
* Jayne Atkinson
* Anne Bancroft
* Barbara Bel Geddes
* Eve Best
* Shirley Booth
* Kate Burton
* Glenn Close
* Gladys Cooper
* Blythe Danner
* Laura Donnelly
* Lindsay Duncan
* Jennifer Ehle
* Tovah Feldshuh
* Uta Hagen
* LaTanya Richardson Jackson
* Swoosie Kurtz
* Jessica Lange
* Frances McDormand
* Siobhán McKenna
* Claudia McNeil
* Amy Morton
* Cynthia Nixon
* Amanda Plummer
* Phylicia Rashad
* Mercedes Ruehl
* Marian Seldes
* Kim Stanley
* Kathleen Turner
* Liv Ullmann

### Character win total

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3 wins

* Medea from Medea

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

### Character nomination total

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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 and More Stately Mansions
* Sarah Norman from Children of a Lesser God
* Sheila from A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
* Sister Aloysius Beauvier from Doubt

Characters nominated for both the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical and Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play

* Joan of Arc from Goodtime Charley, Saint Joan, Joan of Lorraine and The Lark
* Countess Aurelia from The Madwoman of Chaillot and Dear World
* Sally Bowles from I Am a Camera and Cabaret
* Leona Samish from The Time of the Cuckoo and Do I Hear a Waltz?
* Dolly Gallagher Levi from The Matchmaker and Hello Dolly!
* Lena Younger from A Raisin in the Sun and Raisin
* Mame Dennis from Auntie Mame and Mame
* Eliza Gant from Look Homeward, Angel and Angel
* Claire Zachanassian The Visit (play) and The Visit (musical)
* Sister Margaret Alexander from The Amen Corner and Amen Corner (musical)
* Eliza Doolittle from Pygmalion and My Fair Lady
* Lizzie Curry from The Rainmaker and 110 in the Shade.
* Lily Garland / Mildred Plotka from Twentieth Century and On the Twentieth Century
* Madame Arcati from Blithe Spirit and High Spirits
* Anna Christopherson from Anna Christie and New Girl in Town

### Productions with multiple nominations

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* The Chalk Garden – Gladys Cooper and Siobhán McKenna
* Toys In The Attic – Maureen Stapleton and Irene Worth
* The Killing of Sister George – Beryl Reid and Eileen Atkins
* 'night, Mother – Kathy Bates and Anne Pitoniak
* A Streetcar Named Desire – Blythe Danner and Frances McDormand
* The Sisters Rosensweig – Madeline Kahn and Jane Alexander
* A Delicate Balance – Rosemary Harris and Elaine Stritch
* August: Osage County – Deanna Dunagan and Amy Morton
* God of Carnage – Marcia Gay Harden and Hope Davis
* Mary Stuart – Janet McTeer and Harriet Walter (God of Carnage and Mary Stuart were produced in the same year)

### Multiple awards and nominations

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Actresses who have been nominated multiple times in any acting categories
| Awards  | Nominations  | Recipient

|
|

6  | 11  | Audra McDonald
5  | 10  | Julie Harris
7  | Angela Lansbury
4  | 6  | Gwen Verdon
4  | Zoe Caldwell
3  | 8  | Patti LuPone
5  | Irene Worth
Jessica Tandy
4  | Glenn Close
Mary Martin
3  | Shirley Booth
2  | 10  | Chita Rivera
8  | Colleen Dewhurst
7  | Bernadette Peters
Frances Sternhagen
Sutton Foster
6  | Andrea Martin
Laurie Metcalf
Maureen Stapleton
5  | Victoria Clark
Cherry Jones
Donna Murphy
Mary-Louise Parker
Swoosie Kurtz
4  | Christine Ebersole
Cynthia Nixon
Judith Ivey
Judy Kaye
Margaret Leighton
3  | Anne Bancroft
Bebe Neuwirth
Helen Gallagher
Helen Hayes
Jennifer Ehle
Judith Light
Liza Minnelli
Phylicia Rashad
Viola Davis
2  | Christine Baranski
Katie Finneran
Lauren Bacall
Sandy Dennis
Tammy Grimes
Uta Hagen
1  | 9  | Rosemary Harris
8  | Jane Alexander
Stockard Channing
7  | Kelli O'Hara
6  | Linda Lavin
5  | Celia Keenan-Bolger
Glenda Jackson
Jayne Houdyshell
Laura Benanti
Marian Seldes
4  | Blythe Danner
Carol Channing
Carole Shelley
Debra Monk
Diana Rigg
Faith Prince
Jessie Mueller
Julie White
Kara Young
Karen Ziemba
LaChanze
Madeline Kahn
3  | Amanda Plummer
Annaleigh Ashford
Barbara Harris
Beth Leavel
Dorothy Loudon
Elizabeth Ashley
Elizabeth Franz
Ethel Merman
Helen Mirren
Idina Menzel
Jane Krakowski
Janet McTeer
Joanna Gleason
Kristin Chenoweth
Lois Smith
Maggie Smith
Mercedes Ruehl
Rae Allen
Stephanie J. Block
Tonya Pinkins
Tyne Daly
Vanessa Redgrave
2  | Adriane Lenox
Adrienne Warren
Alexis Smith
Alice Ghostly
Alice Ripley
Anika Noni Rose
Anna Manahan
Barbara Cook
Betty Buckley
Cady Huffman
Dolores Gray
Frances McDormand
Gretha Boston
Jessica Lange
Jo Van Fleet
Joan Allen
Joaquina Kalukango
Judith Anderson
Karen Olivo
Leora Dana
Leslie Uggams
Liliane Montevecchi
Lillias White
Linda Hopkins
Lindsay Duncan
Lindsay Mendez
Lotte Lenya
Lynne Thigpen
Marcia Gay Harden
Margaret Tyzack
Maria Karnilova
Mary Alice
Maryann Plunkett
Mary Louise Wilson
Nanette Fabray
Natasha Richardson
Nikki M. James
Nina Arianda
Patina Miller
Patricia Elliott
Patsy Kelly
Phyllis Newman
Priscilla Lopez
Randy Graff
Rosalind Russell
Ruthie Ann Miles
Shirley Knight
Sophie Okonedo
| Nominations  | Recipient

|

5  | Dana Ivey
Laura Linney
Estelle Parsons
Jan Maxwell
4  | Condola Rashad
Eileen Atkins
Elaine Stritch
Geraldine Page
Judy Kuhn
Kate Nelligan
Tovah Feldshuh
Zoë Wanamaker
3  | Amy Ryan
Brenda Vaccaro
Carolee Carmello
Dee Hoty
Eileen Heckart
Jennifer Simard
Jessica Hecht
Julie Andrews
Kate Burton
Linda Emond
Louise Troy
Lynn Redgrave
Marin Mazzie
Martha Plimpton
Mary Beth Hurt
Mary Testa
Rebecca Luker
Rosemary Murphy
Sandy Duncan
2  | Alison Fraser
Allison Janney
Amy Morton
Ann Reinking
Anne Pitoniak
Annette Bening
Barbara Bel Geddes
Barbra Streisand
Beatrice Lillie
Beth Fowler
Carmen Cusack
Carol Burnett
Charlotte d'Amboise
Charlotte Rae
Christine Andreas
Claudia McNeil
Crista Moore
Daphne Rubin-Vega
Debbie Allen
Diana Sands
Eartha Kitt
Elizabeth Allen
Ernestine Jackson
Eva Noblezada
Eve Best
Fionnula Flanagan
Georgia Brown
Gladys Cooper
Inga Swenson
Jane Fonda
Jayne Atkinson
Johanna Day
Josephine Premice
Josie de Guzman
Julienne Marie
Kate Baldwin
Kate Reid
Katharine Hepburn
Kathleen Turner
Kim Stanley
Kristine Nielsen
LaTanya Richardson Jackson
Laura Donnelly
Laura Osnes
Leland Palmer
Liv Ullmann
Marcia Lewis
Mare Winningham
Mary Beth Peil
Megan Hilty
Michele Lee
Mildred Natwick
Millicent Martin
Nancy Dussault
Nancy Walker
Penny Fuller
Pert Kelton
Ruth Wilson
S. Epatha Merkerson
Sarah Stiles
Sherie Rene Scott
Shoshana Bean
Sinéad Cusack
Siobhán McKenna
Spencer Kayden
Susan Browning
Tammy Blanchard
Vivian Reed
Zohra Lampert

## See also

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* Theatre portal

* Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play
* Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical
* Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical
* Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play
* Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lead Performance in a Play
* Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress
* List of Tony Award-nominated productions

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## External links

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* Internet Broadway Database Awards Archive
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