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