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