Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play | |
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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 | Jodie Comer for Prima Facie (2023) |
Website | TonyAwards.com |
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.
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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 |
Year | Actress | Play | Role(s) | Ref. |
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2020 ( 74th) | ||||
Mary-Louise Parker | The Sound Inside | Bella Baird | [67] | |
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 | ||
2022 ( 75th) | ||||
Deirdre O'Connell | Dana H. | Dana H. | [68] | |
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 | [69] | |
Jessica Chastain | A Doll's House | Nora Helmer | ||
Jessica Hecht | Summer, 1976 | Alice | ||
Audra McDonald | Ohio State Murders | Suzanne Alexander |
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Actress who have been nominated multiple times in any acting categories
Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play | |
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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 | Jodie Comer for Prima Facie (2023) |
Website | TonyAwards.com |
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.
Year | Actress | Play | Role(s) | Ref. |
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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 |
Year | Actress | Play | Role(s) | Ref. |
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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) [3] | ||||
Julie Harris | The Lark | Joan of Arc | ||
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) [4] | ||||
Margaret Leighton | Separate Tables | Ann Shankland / Sibyl Railton-Bell | ||
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) [5] | ||||
Helen Hayes | Time Remembered | The Duchess of Pont-Au-Bronc | ||
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) [6] | ||||
Gertrude Berg | A Majority of One | Bertha Jacoby | ||
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 |
Year | Actress | Play | Role(s) | Ref. |
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1960 ( 14th) | ||||
Anne Bancroft | The Miracle Worker | Annie Sullivan | [7] | |
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 | [8] | |
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 | [9] | |
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 | [10] | |
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 | [11] | |
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 | [12] | |
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 | [13] | |
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 | [14] | |
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 | [15] | |
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 | [16] | |
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 |
Year | Actress | Play | Role(s) | Ref. |
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1970 ( 24th) | ||||
Tammy Grimes | Private Lives | Amanda Prynne | [17] | |
Geraldine Brooks | Brightower | Sara Brightower | ||
Helen Hayes | Harvey | Veta Louise Simmons | ||
1971 ( 25th) | ||||
Maureen Stapleton | The Gingerbread Lady | Evy Meara | [18] | |
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 | [19] | |
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 | [20] | |
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 | [21] | |
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 | [22] | |
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 | [23] | |
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 | [24] | |
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 | [25] | |
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 | [26] | |
Carole Shelley | The Elephant Man | Madge Kendal | ||
Jane Alexander | First Monday in October | Ruth Loomis | ||
Frances Sternhagen | On Golden Pond | Ethel Thayer |
Year | Actress | Play | Role(s) | Ref. |
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1980 ( 34th) | ||||
Phyllis Frelich | Children of a Lesser God | Sarah Norman | [27] | |
Blythe Danner | Betrayal | Emma | ||
Maggie Smith | Night and Day | Ruth Carson | ||
Anne Twomey | Nuts | Claudia Draper | ||
1981 ( 35th) | ||||
Jane Lapotaire | Piaf | Édith Piaf | [28] | |
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 | [29] | |
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 | [30] | |
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 | [31] | |
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 | [32] | |
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 | [33] | |
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 | [34] | |
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 | [35] | |
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 | [36] | |
Joan Allen | The Heidi Chronicles | Heidi Holland | ||
Madeline Kahn | Born Yesterday | Emma 'Billie' Dawn | ||
Kate Nelligan | Spoils of War | Elise |
Year | Actress | Play | Role(s) | Ref. |
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1990 ( 44th) | ||||
Maggie Smith | Lettice and Lovage | Lettice Douffet | [37] | |
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 | [38] | |
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 | [39] | |
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 | [40] | |
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 | [41] | |
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 | [42] | |
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 | [43] | |
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 | [44] | |
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 | [45] | |
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 | [46] | |
Stockard Channing | The Lion in Winter | Eleanor of Aquitaine | ||
Marian Seldes | Ring Round the Moon | Madame Desmermortes | ||
Zoë Wanamaker | Electra | Electra |
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2000 ( 54th) | ||||
Jennifer Ehle | The Real Thing | Annie | [47] | |
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 | [48] | |
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 | [49] | |
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 | [50] | |
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 | [51] | |
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 | [52] | |
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 | [53] | |
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 | [54] | |
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 | [55] | |
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 | [56] | |
Hope Davis | God of Carnage | Annette | ||
Jane Fonda | 33 Variations | Katherine Brandt | ||
Janet McTeer | Mary Stuart | Mary Stuart | ||
Harriet Walter | Elizabeth I |
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2010 ( 64th) | ||||
Viola Davis | Fences | Rose Maxson | [57] | |
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 | [58] | |
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 | [59] | |
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 | [60] | |
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 | [61] | |
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 | [62] | |
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 | [63] | |
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 | [64] | |
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 | [65] | |
Condola Rashād | 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 | [66] | |
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 |
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2020 ( 74th) | ||||
Mary-Louise Parker | The Sound Inside | Bella Baird | [67] | |
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 | ||
2022 ( 75th) | ||||
Deirdre O'Connell | Dana H. | Dana H. | [68] | |
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 | [69] | |
Jessica Chastain | A Doll's House | Nora Helmer | ||
Jessica Hecht | Summer, 1976 | Alice | ||
Audra McDonald | Ohio State Murders | Suzanne Alexander |
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