Tony Award Winners
The Tony Awards have been given out annually since 1947 in recognition of excellence in live Broadway theatre. They are named after Antoinette Perry, founder of the American Theatre Wing, the presenters of the awards.
Included in the list are the winners in the Best Director, Leading Actor and Leading Actress categories.
| Name | Year | Category | Play | Other Names | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Al Pacino | 1977 | actor | The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel | (Alfredo, James) |  |
| Alan Bates | 1973 | actor | Butley | (Arthur) | |
| Alan Bates | 2002 | actor | Fortune's Fool | (Arthur) | |
| Alec Guinness | 1964 | actor | Dylan | | |
| Alex Sharp | 2015 | actor | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | (Alexander, Ian) | |
| Alfred Lunt | 1955 | actor | Quadrille | (David) | |
| Andrew Burnap | 2020 | actor | The Inheritance | | |
| Andrew Garfield | 2018 | actor | Angels in America | (Russell) | |
| Anne Bancroft | 1960 | actress | The Miracle Worker | (Anna, Maria, Louisa) | |
| Anthony LaPaglia | 1998 | actor | A View from the Bridge | | |
| Arthur Hill | 1963 | actor | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | (Edward) | |
| Audra McDonald | 2014 | actress | Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill | (Ann) | |
| Audrey Hepburn | 1954 | actress | Ondine | (Kathleen) | |
| Barnard Hughes | 1978 | actor | Da | (Bernard, Aloysius, Kiernan) | |
| Basil Rathbone | 1948 | actor | The Heiress | (Philip, St. John) | |
| Beryl Reid | 1967 | actress | The Killing of Sister George | (Elizabeth) | |
| Bill Irwin | 2005 | actor | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | (William, Mills) | |
| Brian Bedford | 1971 | actor | The School for Wives | | |
| Brian Dennehy | 1999 | actor | Death of a Salesman | (Manion) | |
| Brian Dennehy | 2003 | actor | Long Day's Journey into Night | (Manion) | |
| Bryan Cranston | 2014 | actor | All the Way | (Lee) | |
| Bryan Cranston | 2019 | actor | Network | (Lee) | |
| Carole Shelley | 1979 | actress | The Elephant Man | (Augusta) | |
| Cherry Jones | 2005 | actress | Doubt | | |
| Cherry Jones | 1995 | actress | The Heiress | | |
| Christopher Plummer | 1997 | actor | Barrymore | (Arthur, Orme) | |
| Cicely Tyson | 2013 | actress | The Trip to Bountiful | (Cecily, Louise) | |
| Claude Rains | 1951 | actor | Darkness at Noon | (William) | |
| Cliff Gorman | 1972 | actor | Lenny | (Joel, Joshua) | |
| Colleen Dewhurst | 1974 | actress | A Moon for the Misbegotten | (Rose) | |
| Constance Cummings | 1979 | actress | Wings | | |
| Cynthia Nixon | 2006 | actress | Rabbit Hole | (Ellen) | |
| Daveed Diggs | 2016 | actor | Hamilton | (Daniele) | |
| David Wayne | 1954 | actor | The Teahouse of the August Moon | (James) | |
| Deanna Dunagan | 2008 | actress | August: Osage County | | |
| Deirdre O'Connell | 2022 | actress | Dana H. | | |
| Denzel Washington | 2010 | actor | Fences | (Hayes) | |
| Derek Jacobi | 1985 | actor | Much Ado About Nothing | (George) | |
| Diana Rigg | 1994 | actress | Medea | (Enid, Elizabeth) | |
| Elaine May | 2019 | actress | The Waverly Gallery | (Iva) | |
| Ellen Burstyn | 1975 | actress | Same Time, Next Year | (Edna, Rae) | |
| Frances McDormand | 2011 | actress | Good People | (Cynthia, Ann, Louise) | |
| Frank Langella | 2007 | actor | Frost/Nixon | | |
| Frank Langella | 2016 | actor | The Father | | |
| Fredric March | 1957 | actor | Long Day's Journey into Night | (Ernest, Frederick, McIntyre) | |
| Fredric March | 1947 | actor | Years Ago | (Ernest, Frederick, McIntyre) | |
| Fritz Weaver | 1970 | actor | Child's Play | (William) | |
| Geoffrey Rush | 2009 | actor | Exit the King | (Roy) | |
| George Grizzard | 1996 | actor | A Delicate Balance | (Cooper) | |
| Gertrude Berg | 1959 | actress | A Majority of One | (Tillie) | |
| Glenda Jackson | 2018 | actress | Three Tall Women | (May) | |
| Glenn Close | 1992 | actress | Death and the Maiden | | |
| Glenn Close | 1984 | actress | The Real Thing | | |
| Hal Holbrook | 1966 | actor | Mark Twain Tonight! | (Harold, Rowe) | |
| Harvey Fierstein | 1983 | actor | Torch Song Trilogy | (Forbes) | |
| Helen Hayes | 1947 | actress | Happy Birthday | | |
| Helen Hayes | 1958 | actress | Time Remembered | | |
| Helen Mirren | 2015 | actress | The Audience | (Lydia) | |
| Henry Fonda | 1948 | actor | Mister Roberts | (Jaynes) | |
| Ian McKellen | 1981 | actor | Amadeus | (Murray) | |
| Idina Menzel | 2004 | actress | Wicked | | |
| Ingrid Bergman | 1947 | actress | Joan of Lorraine | | |
| Irene Worth | 1976 | actress | Sweet Bird of Youth | (Harriett, Elizabeth) | |
| Irene Worth | 1965 | actress | Tiny Alice | (Harriett, Elizabeth) | |
| James Corden | 2012 | actor | One Man, Two Guvnors | (Kimberley) | |
| James Earl Jones | 1987 | actor | Fences | | |
| James Earl Jones | 1969 | actor | The Great White Hope | | |
| Jane Lapotaire | 1981 | actress | Piaf | (Elizabeth, Marie) | |
| Janet McTeer | 1997 | actress | A Doll's House | | |
| Jason Robards | 1959 | actor | The Disenchanted | (Nelson) | |
| Jefferson Mays | 2004 | actor | I Am My Own Wife | (Lewis) | |
| Jennifer Ehle | 2000 | actress | The Real Thing | (Anne) | |
| Jeremy Irons | 1984 | actor | The Real Thing | (John) | |
| Jeremy Strong | 2024 | actor | An Enemy of the People | | |
| Jessica Lange | 2016 | actress | Long Day's Journey into Night | (Phyllis) | |
| Jessica Tandy | 1948 | actress | A Streetcar Named Desire | (Jessie, Alice) | |
| Jessica Tandy | 1983 | actress | Foxfire | (Jessie, Alice) | |
| Jessica Tandy | 1978 | actress | The Gin Game | (Jessie, Alice) | |
| Joan Allen | 1988 | actress | Burn This | | |
| Joan Plowright | 1961 | actress | A Taste of Honey | (Ann) | |
| Jodie Comer | 2023 | actress | Prima Facie | (Marie) | |
| John Gielgud | 1959 | actor | Ages of Man | (Arthur) | |
| John Gielgud | 1961 | director | Big Fish, Little Fish | (Arthur) | |
| John Gielgud | 1948 | actor | The Importance of Being Earnest | (Arthur) | |
| John Kani | 1975 | actor | Sizwe Banzi Is Dead; The Island | (Bonisile) | |
| John Rubinstein | 1980 | actor | Children of a Lesser God | | |
| John Wood | 1976 | actor | Travesties | (Lamin) | |
| José Ferrer | 1947 | actor | Cyrano de Bergerac | (Vicente) | |
| José Ferrer | 1952 | actor | The Shrike | (Vicente) | |
| Judd Hirsch | 1992 | actor | Conversations with My Father | (Seymore) | |
| Judd Hirsch | 1986 | actor | I'm Not Rappaport | (Seymore) | |
| Judi Dench | 1999 | actress | Amy's View | (Judith, Olivia) | |
| Judith Anderson | 1948 | actress | Medea | (Frances, Margaret) | |
| Julie Harris | 1969 | actress | Forty Carats | (Julia, Ann) | |
| Julie Harris | 1952 | actress | I Am a Camera | (Julia, Ann) | |
| Julie Harris | 1977 | actress | The Belle of Amherst | (Julia, Ann) | |
| Julie Harris | 1956 | actress | The Lark | (Julia, Ann) | |
| Julie Harris | 1973 | actress | The Last of Mrs. Lincoln | (Julia, Ann) | |
| Julie White | 2007 | actress | The Little Dog Laughed | (Karen) | |
| Katharine Cornell | 1948 | actress | Antony and Cleopatra | | |
| Kevin Kline | 2017 | actor | Present Laughter | (Delaney) | |
| Laurie Metcalf | 2017 | actress | A Doll's House, Part 2 | (Laura, Elizabeth) | |
| Lily Tomlin | 1986 | actress | The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe | (Mary, Jean) | |
| Linda Lavin | 1987 | actress | Broadway Bound | | |
| Lindsay Duncan | 2002 | actress | Private Lives | (Vere) | |
| Madeline Kahn | 1993 | actress | The Sisters Rosensweig | (Gail) | |
| Maggie Smith | 1990 | actress | Lettice and Lovage | (Margaret, Natalie) | |
| Marcia Gay Harden | 2009 | actress | God of Carnage | | |
| Margaret Leighton | 1957 | actress | Separate Tables | | |
| Margaret Leighton | 1962 | actress | The Night of the Iguana | | |
| Marie Mullen | 1998 | actress | The Beauty Queen of Leenane | | |
| Mark Rylance | 2008 | actor | Boeing-Boeing | (David) | |
| Mark Rylance | 2011 | actor | Jerusalem | (David) | |
| Martin Balsam | 1968 | actor | You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running | (Henry) | |
| Martita Hunt | 1949 | actress | The Madwoman of Chaillot | (Edith) | |
| Mary-Louise Parker | 2001 | actress | Proof | | |
| Mary-Louise Parker | 2020 | actress | The Sound Inside | | |
| Maureen Stapleton | 1971 | actress | The Gingerbread Lady | (Lois) | |
| Mel Brooks | 2001 | director | The Producers | (Melvin, James) | |
| Melvyn Douglas | 1960 | actor | The Best Man | (Edouard) | |
| Mercedes Ruehl | 1991 | actress | Lost in Yonkers | | |
| Michael Moriarty | 1974 | actor | Find Your Way Home | | |
| Mike Nichols | 1964 | director | Barefoot in the Park | (Michael, Igor) | |
| Nancy Kelly | 1955 | actress | The Bad Seed | | |
| Nigel Hawthorne | 1991 | actor | Shadowlands | (Barnard) | |
| Nina Arianda | 2012 | actress | Venus in Fur | | |
| Paul Kelly | 1948 | actor | Command Decision | (Michael) | |
| Paul Muni | 1956 | actor | Inherit the Wind | (Frederich, Meshilem, Meier) | |
| Paul Rogers | 1967 | actor | The Homecoming | | |
| Paul Scofield | 1962 | actor | A Man for All Seasons | (David) | |
| Pauline Collins | 1989 | actress | Shirley Valentine | | |
| Philip Bosco | 1989 | actor | Lend Me a Tenor | (Michael) | |
| Phylicia Rashad | 2004 | actress | A Raisin in the Sun | | |
| Phyllis Frelich | 1980 | actress | Children of a Lesser God | (Annetta) | |
| Ralph Bellamy | 1958 | actor | Sunrise at Campobello | (Rexford) | |
| Ralph Fiennes | 1995 | actor | Hamlet | (Nathaniel) | |
| Rex Harrison | 1949 | actor | Anne of the Thousand Days | (Reginald, Carey) | |
| Richard Easton | 2001 | actor | The Invention of Love | (John) | |
| Richard Griffiths | 2006 | actor | The History Boys | (Thomas) | |
| Rita Moreno | 1975 | actress | The Ritz | | |
| Robert Morse | 1990 | actor | Tru | (Alan) | |
| Roger Rees | 1982 | actor | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby | | |
| Ron Leibman | 1993 | actor | Angels in America: Millennium Approaches | | |
| Ron Silver | 1988 | actor | Speed-the-Plow | (Ronald, Arthur) | |
| Rosemary Harris | 1966 | actress | The Lion in Winter | (Ann) | |
| Sada Thompson | 1972 | actress | Twigs | (Carolyn) | |
| Sandy Dennis | 1964 | actress | Any Wednesday | (Sandra, Dale) | |
| Sarah Paulson | 2024 | actress | Appropriate | (Catharine) | |
| Sean Hayes | 2023 | actor | Good Night, Oscar | (Patrick) | |
| Shirley Booth | 1950 | actress | Come Back, Little Sheba | (Marjory) | |
| Shirley Booth | 1953 | actress | The Time of the Cuckoo | (Marjory) | |
| Sidney Blackmer | 1950 | actor | Come Back, Little Sheba | (Alderman) | |
| Simon Russell Beale | 2022 | actor | The Lehman Trilogy | | |
| Stephen Dillane | 2000 | actor | The Real Thing | (John) | |
| Stephen Spinella | 1994 | actor | Angels in America: Perestroika | | |
| Stockard Channing | 1985 | actress | A Day in the Death of Joe Egg | (Susan, Antonia, Williams) | |
| Tammy Grimes | 1970 | actress | Private Lives | (Lee) | |
| Tom Conti | 1979 | actor | Whose Life Is It Anyway? | (Tommaso, Antonio) | |
| Tom Ewell | 1953 | actor | The Seven Year Itch | (Samuel, Yewell) | |
| Tracy Letts | 2013 | actor | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | | |
| Uta Hagen | 1951 | actress | The Country Girl | (Thyra) | |
| Uta Hagen | 1963 | actress | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | (Thyra) | |
| Vanessa Redgrave | 2003 | actress | Long Day's Journey into Night | | |
| Viola Davis | 2010 | actress | Fences | | |
| Walter Matthau | 1965 | actor | The Odd Couple | (John) | |
| Whoopi Goldberg | 2002 | actress | Thoroughly Modern Millie | (Caryn, Elaine) | |
| Winston Ntshona | 1975 | actor | Sizwe Banzi is Dead; The Island | | |
| Zero Mostel | 1961 | actor | Rhinoceros | (Samuel, Joel) | |
| Zoe Caldwell | 1996 | actress | Master Class | (Ada) | |
| Zoe Caldwell | 1982 | actress | Medea | (Ada) | |
| Zoe Caldwell | 1968 | actress | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | (Ada) | |