Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play

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Tony Award for
Best Featured Actress in a Play
2023 recipient: Miriam Silverman
DescriptionBest Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play
LocationUnited States New York City
Presented byAmerican Theatre Wing, The Broadway League
Currently held byMiriam Silverman for The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window (2023)
WebsiteTonyAwards.com

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."[1]

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

A black-and-white picture of Patricia Neal in a striped collared shirt
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)
Anne Bancroft
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)
A color photograph of Swoosie Kurtz, a woman with blue eyes and brown-red hair, in a green sweater
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)
Audra McDonald in a black dress against a white background
Two-time award winner Audra McDonald
A color headshot of Blair Brown at a microphone
2000 award winner Blair Brown
Viola Davis, wearing a leather jacket, against a black background
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)
Scarlett Johansson against a light blue background
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

Year Actor Role(s) Project Ref.
1947
(1st)
Patricia Neal Another Part of the Forest Regina Hubbard
1949
(3rd)
Shirley Booth Goodbye, My Fancy Grace Woods

1950s

Year Actor Role(s) Project Ref.
1951
(5th)
Maureen Stapleton The Rose Tattoo Serafina Delle Rose
1952
(6th)
Marian Winters I Am a Camera Natalia Landauer
1953
(7th)
Beatrice Straight The Crucible Elizabeth Proctor
1954
(8th)
Jo Van Fleet The Trip to Bountiful Jessie Mae Watts
1955
(9th)
Patricia Jessel Witness for the Prosecution Romaine
1956
(10th)
Una Merkel The Ponder Heart Edna Earle Ponder [4]
Diane Cilento Tiger at the Gates Helen of Troy
Anne Jackson Middle of the Night The Daughter
Elaine Stritch
Bus Stop
Grace Hoylard
1957
(11th)
Peggy Cass Auntie Mame Agnes Gooch [5]
Anna Massey The Reluctant Debutante Jane Broadbent
Beryl Measor Separate Tables Pat Cooper
Mildred Natwick The Waltz of the Toreadors Mme. St. Pé
Phyllis Neilson-Terry Separate Tables Mrs. Railton-Bell
Diana Van der Vlis The Happiest Millionaire Cordelia Biddle
1958
(12th)
Anne Bancroft Two for the Seesaw Gittel Mosca [6]
Brenda De Banzie
The Entertainer Phoebe Rice
Joan Blondell The Rope Dancers Mrs. Farrow
Mary Fickett Sunrise at Campobello Eleanor Roosevelt
Eileen Heckart The Dark at the Top of the Stairs Lottie Lacey
1959
(13th)
Julie Newmar The Marriage-Go-Round Katrin Sveg [7]
Maureen Delany God and Kate Murphy Carrie Donovan
Dolores Hart The Pleasure of His Company Jessica Poole
Nan Martin J.B. Sarah
Bertice Reading Requiem for a Nun Nancy Mannigoe

1960s

Year Actor Role(s) Project Ref.
1960
(14th)
Anne Revere Toys in the Attic Anna Berniers [8]
Leora Dana The Best Man DeeDee Grogan
Jane Fonda There Was a Little Girl Toni Newton
Sarah Marshall Goodbye Charlie Rusty Mayerling
Juliet Mills Five Finger Exercise Pamela Harrington
1961
(15th)
Colleen Dewhurst All the Way Home Mary Follet [9]
Eileen Heckart Invitation to a March DeeDee Grogan
Tresa Hughes The Devil's Advocate Nina Sanduzzi
Rosemary Murphy Period of Adjustment Dorothea Bates
1962
(16th)
Elizabeth Ashley Take Her, She's Mine Mollie Michaelson [10]
Zohra Lampert Look: We've Come Through Jennifer Lewison
Janet Margolin Daughter of Silence Anna Albertini
Pat Stanley Sunday in New York Eileen Taylor
1963
(17th)
Sandy Dennis A Thousand Clowns Sandra Markowitz [11]
Melinda Dillon Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Honey
Alice Ghostley The Beauty Part Various Characters
Zohra Lampert Mother Courage and Her Children Kattrin
1964
(18th)
Barbara Loden After the Fall Maggie [12]
Rosemary Murphy Any Wednesday Dorothea Cleves
Kate Reid
Dylan
Caitlin Thomas
Diana Sands Blues for Mister Charlie Juanita
1965
(19th)
Alice Ghostley The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window Mavis Parodus Bryson [13]
Rae Allen
Traveller Without Luggage
Juliette
Alexandra Berlin All in Good Time Violet Fitton
Carolan Daniels Slow Dance on the Killing Ground Rosie
1966
(20th)
Zoe Caldwell Slapstick Tragedy Polly [14]
Glenda Jackson Marat/Sade Charlotte Corday
Mairin D. O'Sullivan Philadelphia, Here I Come! Madge Mulhern
Brenda Vaccaro Cactus Flower Toni Simmons
1967
(21st)
Marian Seldes A Delicate Balance Julia [15]
Camila Ashland Black Comedy Miss Furnival
Brenda Forbes The Loves of Cass McGuire Trilbe Costello
Maria Tucci The Rose Tattoo Rose Dell Rose
1968
(22nd)
Zena Walker A Day in the Death of Joe Egg Sheila [16]
Pert Kelton Spofford Mrs. Punck
Ruth White The Birthday Party Meg
Eleanor D. "Siddy" Wilson The Weekend Mrs. Andrews
1969
(23rd)
Jane Alexander The Great White Hope Eleanor Bachman [17]
Diane Keaton
Play It Again, Sam
Linda Christie
Lauren Jones Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? Linda
Anna Manahan Lovers Hanna Wilson

1970s

Year Actor Role(s) Project Ref.
1970
(24th)
Blythe Danner Butterflies Are Free Jill Tanner [18]
Alice Drummond The Chinese and Dr. Fish Mrs. Lee
Eileen Heckart Butterflies Are Free Mrs. Baker
Linda Lavin Last of the Red Hot Lovers Elaine Navazio
1971
(25th)
Rae Allen
And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little
Fleur Stein [19]
Lili Darvas Les Blancs Madame Neilsen
Joan Van Ark The School for Wives Agnes
Mona Washbourne Home Marian
1972
(26th)
Elizabeth Wilson Sticks and Bones Harriet [20]
Cara Duff-MacCormick Moonchildren Shelly
Mercedes McCambridge The Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks Lucy Lake
Frances Sternhagen The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window Mavis Parodus Bryson
1973
(27th)
Leora Dana The Last of Mrs. Lincoln Elizabeth Edwards [21]
Maya Angelou Look Away Elizabeth Keckley
Katherine Helmond The Great God Brown Margaret
Penelope Windust Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I
1974
(28th)
Frances Sternhagen The Good Doctor Various Characters [22]
Regina Baff
Veronica's Room
Susan
Fionnula Flanagan Ulysses in Nighttown Various Characters
Charlotte Moore Chemin de Fer Sophie
Roxie Roker The River Niger Mattie Williams
1975
(29th)
Rita Moreno The Ritz Googie Gomez [23]
Linda Miller Black Picture Show Jane
Geraldine Page Absurd Person Singular Marion
Carole Shelley Jane
Elizabeth Spriggs London Assurance Lady Gay Spanker
Frances Sternhagen Equus Dora Strang
1976
(30th)
Shirley Knight Kennedy's Children Carla [24]
Mary Beth Hurt
Trelawny of the 'Wells'
Rose Trewlawny
Lois Nettleton They Knew What They Wanted Amy
Meryl Streep
27 Wagons Full of Cotton
Flora Meighan
1977
(31st)
Trazana Beverley For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf Lady in Red [25]
Patricia Elliott The Shadow Box Beverly
Rose Gregorio Agnes
Mary McCarty Anna Christie Marthy Owen
1978
(32nd)
Ann Wedgeworth Chapter Two Faye Medwick [26]
Starletta DuPois The Mighty Gents Rita
Swoosie Kurtz Tartuffe Mariane
Marian Seldes Deathtrap Myra Bruhl
1979
(33rd)
Joan Hickson Bedroom Farce Delia [27]
Laurie Kennedy Man and Superman Violet Robinson
Susan Littler Bedroom Farce Kate
Mary-Joan Negro Wings Amy

1980s

Year Actor Role(s) Project Ref.
1980
(34th)
Dinah Manoff I Ought to Be in Pictures Libby Tucker [28]
Maureen Anderman The Lady from Dubuque Carol
Pamela Burrell Strider Various Characters
Lois de Banzie Morning's at Seven Myrtle Brown
1981
(35th)
Swoosie Kurtz Fifth of July Gwen Landis [29]
Maureen Stapleton The Little Foxes Birdie Hubbard
Jessica Tandy Rose Rose's Mother
Zoë Wanamaker Piaf Tione
1982
(36th)
Amanda Plummer Agnes of God Agnes [30]
Judith Anderson Medea The Nurse
Mia Dillon Crimes of the Heart Babe MaGrath Botrelle
Mary Beth Hurt Meg MaGrath
1983
(37th)
Judith Ivey Steaming Josie [31]
Elizabeth Franz Brighton Beach Memoirs Kate Jerome
Roxanne Hart
Passion
Kate
Margaret Tyzack All's Well That Ends Well Countess of Rossillion
1984
(38th)
Christine Baranski The Real Thing Charlotte [32]
Jo Henderson Play Memory Ruth MacMillan
Dana Ivey Heartbreak House Lady Utterword
Deborah Rush Noises Off Brooke Ashton
1985
(39th)
Judith Ivey Hurlyburly Bonnie [33]
Joanna Gleason A Day in the Death of Joe Egg Pam
Theresa Merritt Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Ma Rainey
Sigourney Weaver Hurlyburly Darlene
1986
(40th)
Swoosie Kurtz The House of Blue Leaves Bananas Shaughnessy [34]
Stockard Channing The House of Blue Leaves Bunny Flingus
Bethel Leslie Long Day's Journey into Night Mary Tyrone
Zoë Wanamaker Loot Fay
1987
(41st)
Mary Alice Fences Rose Maxson [35]
Annette Bening Coastal Disturbances Holly Dancer
Phyllis Newman Broadway Bound Blanche Morton
Carole Shelley Stepping Out Maxine
1988
(42nd)
L. Scott Caldwell Joe Turner's Come and Gone Bertha Holly [36]
Kimberleigh Aarn Joe Turner's Come and Gone Mattie Cambell
Kate Nelligan Serious Money Various Characters
Kimberly Scott Joe Turner's Come and Gone Molly Cunningham
1989
(43rd)
Christine Baranski Rumors Chris Gorman [37]
Joanne Camp The Heidi Chronicles Various Characters
Tovah Feldshuh Lend Me a Tenor Maria Merelli
Penelope Ann Miller Our Town Emily Webb

1990s

Year Actor Role(s) Project Ref.
1990
(44th)
Margaret Tyzack Lettice and Lovage Lotte Schoen [38]
Polly Holliday Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Big Mama Pollitt
S. Epatha Merkerson The Piano Lesson Berniece
Lois Smith The Grapes of Wrath Ma Joad
1991
(45th)
Irene Worth Lost in Yonkers Grandma Kurnitz [39]
Amelia Campbell Our Country's Good Various Characters
Kathryn Erbe The Speed of Darkness Mary
J. Smith-Cameron Our Country's Good Various Characters
1992
(46th)
Brid Brennan
Dancing at Lughnasa Agnes [40]
Rosaleen Linehan Dancing at Lughnasa Kate Mundy
Cynthia Martells Two Trains Running Risa
Dearbhla Molloy Dancing at Lughnasa Maggie Mundy
1993
(47th)
Debra Monk Redwood Curtain Geneva [41]
Kathleen Chalfant
Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
Hannah Pitt, et al.
Marcia Gay Harden Harper Pitt, et al.
Anne Meara Anna Christie Marthy Owen
1994
(48th)
Jane Adams An Inspector Calls Sheila Birling [42]
Debra Monk Picnic Rosemary Sydney
Jeanne Paulson
The Kentucky Cycle Various Characters
Anne Pitoniak Picnic Helen Potts
1995
(49th)
Frances Sternhagen The Heiress Lavinia Penniman [43]
Suzanne Bertish The Molière Comedies Lisette
Cynthia Nixon Indiscretions Madeleine Ozeray
Mercedes Ruehl The Shadow Box Beverly
1996
(50th)
Audra McDonald Master Class Sharon Graham [44]
Viola Davis Seven Guitars Vera
Michele Shay Louise
Lois Smith Buried Child Hallie
1997
(51st)
Lynne Thigpen An American Daughter Dr. Judith B. Kaufman [45]
Helen Carey London Assurance Lady Gay Spanker
Dana Ivey The Last Night of Ballyhoo Boo Levy
Celia Weston Reba Freitag
1998
(52nd)
Anna Manahan The Beauty Queen of Leenane Mags Folan [46]
Enid Graham Honour Sophie
Linda Lavin The Diary of Anne Frank Petronella van Daan
Julyana Soelistyo Golden Child Eng Ahn
1999
(53rd)
Elizabeth Franz Death of a Salesman Linda Loman [47]
Claire Bloom
Electra
Clytemnestra
Samantha Bond Amy's View Amy Thomas
Dawn Bradfield The Lonesome West Girleen Kelleher

2000s

Year Actor Role(s) Project Ref.
2000
(54th)
Blair Brown Copenhagen Margrethe Bohr [48]
Frances Conroy The Ride Down Mt. Morgan Theo
Amy Ryan Uncle Vanya Sonya Serebryakova
Helen Stenborg Waiting in the Wings Sarita Myrtle
Sarah Woodward The Real Thing Charlotte
2001
(55th)
Viola Davis King Hedley II Tonya [49]
Johanna Day Proof Claire
Penny Fuller The Dinner Party Gabrielle Buonocelli
Marthe Keller Judgment at Nuremberg Mme. Bertholt
Michele Lee The Tale of the Allergist's Wife Lee Green
2002
(56th)
Katie Finneran Noises Off Brooke Ashton [50]
Kate Burton The Elephant Man Madge Kendal
Elizabeth Franz Morning's at Seven Aaronetta Gibbs
Estelle Parsons Cora Swanson
Frances Sternhagen Ida Bolton
2003
(57th)
Michele Pawk Hollywood Arms Louise [51]
Christine Ebersole Dinner at Eight Toledo
Linda Emond Life x 3 Inez
Kathryn Meisle Tartuffe Elmire
Marian Seldes Dinner at Eight Carlotta Vance
2004
(58th)
Audra McDonald A Raisin in the Sun Ruth Younger [52]
Essie Davis Jumpers Dotty
Sanaa Lathan A Raisin in the Sun Beneatha Younger
Margo Martindale Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Big Momma Pollitt
Daphne Rubin-Vega Anna in the Tropics Conchita
2005
(59th)
Adriane Lenox Doubt Mrs. Muller [53]
Mireille Enos Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Honey
Heather Goldenhersh Doubt Sister James
Dana Ivey The Rivals Mrs. Malaprop
Amy Ryan
A Streetcar Named Desire
Stella Kowalski
2006
(60th)
Frances de la Tour The History Boys Mrs. Lintott [54]
Tyne Daly Rabbit Hole Nat
Jayne Houdyshell Well Ann Kron
Alison Pill The Lieutenant of Inishmore Mairead
Zoë Wanamaker Awake and Sing! Bessie Berger
2007
(61st)
Jennifer Ehle The Coast of Utopia Liubov / Natalie Herzen / Malwida von Meysenbug [55]
Xanthe Elbrick Coram Boy Young Alexander / Ashbrook / Aaron
Dana Ivey Butley Edna Shaft
Jan Maxwell Coram Boy Mrs. Lynch
Martha Plimpton The Coast of Utopia Varenka / Natasha Tuchkov / Natasha Tuchkov Ogarev
2008
(62nd)
Rondi Reed August: Osage County Mattie Fae Aiken [56]
Sinéad Cusack Rock 'n' Roll Eleanor
Mary McCormack Boeing-Boeing Gretchen
Laurie Metcalf November Clarice Bernstein
Martha Plimpton Top Girls Angie
2009
(63rd)
Angela Lansbury Blithe Spirit Madame Arcati [57]
Hallie Foote Dividing the Estate Mary Jo Gordon
Jessica Hynes The Norman Conquests Annie
Marin Ireland
reasons to be pretty
Steph
Amanda Root The Norman Conquests Sarah

2010s

Year Actor Role(s) Project Ref.
2010
(64th)
Scarlett Johansson A View from the Bridge Catherine [58]
Maria Dizzia In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) Mrs. Daldry
Rosemary Harris The Royal Family Fanny Cavendish
Jessica Hecht A View from the Bridge Beatrice Carbone
Jan Maxwell Lend Me a Tenor Maria Merelli
2011
(65th)
Ellen Barkin The Normal Heart Dr. Emma Brookner [59]
Edie Falco The House of Blue Leaves Bananas Shaughnessy
Judith Light Lombardi Marie Lombardi
Joanna Lumley La Bête The Princess
Elizabeth Rodriguez The Motherfucker with the Hat Veronica
2012
(66th)
Judith Light Other Desert Cities Silda Grauman [60]
Linda Emond Death of a Salesman Linda Loman
Spencer Kayden Don't Dress for Dinner Suzette
Celia Keenan-Bolger
Peter and the Starcatcher
Molly Aster
Condola Rashād
Stick Fly Cheryl
2013
(67th)
Judith Light The Assembled Parties Faye [61]
Carrie Coon Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Honey
Shalita Grant Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Cassandra
Judith Ivey The Heiress Lavinia Penniman
Condola Rashad The Trip to Bountiful Thelma
2014
(68th)
Sophie Okonedo A Raisin in the Sun Ruth Younger [62]
Sarah Greene The Cripple of Inishmaan Helen McCormack
Celia Keenan-Bolger The Glass Menagerie Laura Wingfield
Anika Noni Rose A Raisin in the Sun Beneatha Younger
Mare Winningham Casa Valentina Rita
2015
(69th)
Annaleigh Ashford You Can't Take It with You Essie Carmichael[63]
Patricia Clarkson The Elephant Man Madge Kendal
Lydia Leonard Wolf Hall Parts One & Two Anne Boleyn
Sarah Stiles Hand to God Jessica
Julie White Airline Highway Tanya
2016
(70th)
Jayne Houdyshell The Humans Deirdre Blake [64]
Pascale Armand Eclipsed Bessie
Megan Hilty Noises Off Brooke Ashton
Andrea Martin Dotty Otley
Saycon Sengbloh Eclipsed Helena
2017
(71st)
Cynthia Nixon The Little Foxes Birdie Hubbard [65]
Johanna Day Sweat Tracey
Jayne Houdyshell A Doll's House, Part 2 Anne Marie
Condola Rashād
Emmy Helmer
Michelle Wilson Sweat Tracey
2018
(72nd)
Laurie Metcalf Three Tall Women B [66]
Susan Brown Angels in America Hannah Pitt, et al.
Noma Dumezweni Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Hermione Granger
Deborah Findlay The Children Hazel
Denise Gough Angels in America Harper Pitt, et al.
2019
(73rd)
Celia Keenan-Bolger To Kill a Mockingbird Scout Finch [67]
Fionnula Flanagan The Ferryman Aunt Maggie Far Away
Kristine Nielsen Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus Janice
Julie White Carol
Ruth Wilson King Lear Cordelia / Fool

2020s

Year Actor Role(s) Project Ref.
2020
(74th)
Lois Smith The Inheritance Margaret [68]
Jane Alexander Grand Horizons Nancy
Chalia La Tour Slave Play Teá
Annie McNamara Alana
Cora Vander Broek Linda Vista Jules
2022
(75th)
Phylicia Rashad Skeleton Crew Faye [69]
Uzo Aduba Clyde's Clyde
Rachel Dratch POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive Stephanie
Kenita R. Miller for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf Lady in Red
Julie White POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive Harriet
Kara Young Clyde's Letitia
2023
(76th)
Miriam Silverman The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window Mavis Parodus Bryson [70]
Nikki Crawford Fat Ham Tedra
Crystal Lucas-Perry Ain't No Mo' Passenger #5
Katy Sullivan Cost of Living Ani
Kara Young Jessie

Win total

2 Wins

Nomination total

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

Productions with multiple featured nominations

Winners are in bold.

Multiple awards and nominations

Actress who have been nominated multiple times in any acting categories

Awards Nominations Recipient
6 10 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
Helen Gallagher
Helen Hayes
Jennifer Ehle
Judith Light
Liza Minnelli
Phylicia Rashad
Viola Davis
2 Bebe Neuwirth
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 Glenda Jackson
Jayne Houdyshell
Laura Benanti
Marian Seldes
4 Blythe Danner
Carol Channing
Carole Shelley
Celia Keenan-Bolger
Debra Monk
Diana Rigg
Faith Prince
Jessie Mueller
Julie White
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
Jo Van Fleet
Joan Allen
Joaquina Kalukango
Judith Anderson
Karen Olivo
Leora Dana
Leslie Uggams
Liliane Montevecchi
Lillias White
Linda Hopkins
Lindsay Duncan
Lotte Lenya
Lynne Thigpen
Marcia Gay Harden
Margaret Tyzack
Maria Karnilova
Mary Alice
Mary Louise Wilson
Nanette Fabray
Natasha Richardson
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 Brenda Vaccaro
Carolee Carmello
Dee Hoty
Eileen Heckart
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
Amy Ryan
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
Jennifer Simard
Jessica Hecht
Johanna Day
Josephine Premice
Josie de Guzman
Julienne Marie
Kate Baldwin
Kara Young
Kate Reid
Katharine Hepburn
Kathleen Turner
Kim Stanley
Kristine Nielsen
Laura Osnes
Leland Palmer
Liv Ullmann
Marcia Lewis
Mare Winningham
Mary Beth Peil
Michele Lee
Mildred Natwick
Millicent Martin
Nancy Dussault
Nancy Walker
Penny Fuller
Pert Kelton
Ruth Wilson
S. Epatha Merkerson
Sarah Stiles
Sherie Rene Scott
Sinéad Cusack
Siobhán McKenna
Spencer Kayden
Susan Browning
Tammy Blanchard
Vivian Reed
Zohra Lampert

Trivia

  • Supporting actresses in two of three plays in Neil Simon's Eugene trilogy (Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound) were nominated for the Tony.
  • Featured actresses in six parts of
    The Pittsburgh Cycle
    have been nominated for the award.
  • Featured actress
    first African American
    actor to receive the award.


See also

Notes

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