Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
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. The award is given to actresses for quality leading roles in a Broadway play.[1] 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
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
Win total
Nomination total
- 9 Nominations
- 8 Nominations
- 7 Nominations
- 6 Nominations
- 5 Nominations
- 4 Nominations
- 3 Nominations
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- 2 Nominations
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Character Win total
- 3 Wins
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- 2 Wins
- Amanda Prynne from Private Lives
- Annie from The Real Thing
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Character Nomination total
- 5 Nominations
- Josie Hogan from A Moon for the Misbegotten
- 4 Nominations
- Medea from Medea
- Martha from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- 3 Nominations
- Amanda Prynne from Private Lives
- Beatrice from Much Ado About Nothing
- Claire Zachanassian from The Visit
- 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
- 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
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- 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
- Joan of Arc from Joan of Lorraine and The Lark
- Josephine from A Taste of Honey
- Julie Cavendish from The Royal Family
- Kyra Hollis from Skylight
- Lady MacBeth from Macbeth
- Lola Delaney from Come Back, Little Sheba
- Nora Helmer from A Doll's House
- Portia from The Merchant of Venice
- Princess Cosmonopolis from Sweet Bird of Youth
- Ruth from The Homecoming
- Sheila from A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
‡ (Mary Tyrone has lead to a total of 4 actresses receiving Tony nominations: Bethel Leslie was nominated in Featured Actress for her work as Mary Tyrone in the 1986 revival}
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References
External links
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- Complete list
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- (1976–2000)
- (2001–2025)
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