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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| George Grizzard | 1996 | actor | A Delicate Balance | (Cooper) |  |
| Paul Scofield | 1962 | actor | A Man for All Seasons | (David) | |
| 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) | |
| 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) | |
| Christopher Plummer | 1997 | actor | Barrymore | (Arthur, Orme) | |
| Mark Rylance | 2008 | actor | Boeing-Boeing | (David) | |
| Alan Bates | 1973 | actor | Butley | (Arthur) | |
| Fritz Weaver | 1970 | actor | Child's Play | (William) | |
| John Rubinstein | 1980 | actor | Children of a Lesser God | | |
| 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) | |
| Claude Rains | 1951 | actor | Darkness at Noon | (William) | |
| Brian Dennehy | 1999 | actor | Death of a Salesman | (Manion) | |
| Alec Guinness | 1964 | actor | Dylan | | |
| Geoffrey Rush | 2009 | actor | Exit the King | (Roy) | |
| James Earl Jones | 1987 | actor | Fences | | |
| Denzel Washington | 2010 | actor | Fences | (Hayes) | |
| Michael Moriarty | 1974 | actor | Find Your Way Home | | |
| Alan Bates | 2002 | actor | Fortune's Fool | (Arthur) | |
| Frank Langella | 2007 | actor | Frost/Nixon | | |
| Sean Hayes | 2023 | actor | Good Night, Oscar | (Patrick) | |
| Daveed Diggs | 2016 | actor | Hamilton | (Daniele) | |
| Ralph Fiennes | 1995 | actor | Hamlet | (Nathaniel) | |
| 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) | |
| Philip Bosco | 1989 | actor | Lend Me a Tenor | (Michael) | |
| Cliff Gorman | 1972 | actor | Lenny | (Joel, Joshua) | |
| Fredric March | 1957 | actor | Long Day's Journey into Night | (Ernest, Frederick, McIntyre) | |
| Brian Dennehy | 2003 | actor | Long Day's Journey into Night | (Manion) | |
| Hal Holbrook | 1966 | actor | Mark Twain Tonight! | (Harold, Rowe) | |
| Henry Fonda | 1948 | actor | Mister Roberts | (Jaynes) | |
| Derek Jacobi | 1985 | actor | Much Ado About Nothing | (George) | |
| Bryan Cranston | 2019 | actor | Network | (Lee) | |
| James Corden | 2012 | actor | One Man, Two Guvnors | (Kimberley) | |
| Kevin Kline | 2017 | actor | Present Laughter | (Delaney) | |
| Alfred Lunt | 1955 | actor | Quadrille | (David) | |
| Zero Mostel | 1961 | actor | Rhinoceros | (Samuel, Joel) | |
| Nigel Hawthorne | 1991 | actor | Shadowlands | (Barnard) | |
| 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) | |
| Al Pacino | 1977 | actor | The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel | (Alfredo, James) | |
| Melvyn Douglas | 1960 | actor | The Best Man | (Edouard) | |
| Alex Sharp | 2015 | actor | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | (Alexander, Ian) | |
| Jason Robards | 1959 | actor | The Disenchanted | (Nelson) | |
| Frank Langella | 2016 | actor | The Father | | |
| James Earl Jones | 1969 | actor | The Great White Hope | | |
| Basil Rathbone | 1948 | actor | The Heiress | (Philip, St. John) | |
| 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) | |
| Simon Russell Beale | 2022 | actor | The Lehman Trilogy | | |
| Roger Rees | 1982 | actor | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby | | |
| Walter Matthau | 1965 | actor | The Odd Couple | (John) | |
| Jeremy Irons | 1984 | actor | The Real Thing | (John) | |
| Stephen Dillane | 2000 | actor | The Real Thing | (John) | |
| Brian Bedford | 1971 | actor | The School for Wives | | |
| Tom Ewell | 1953 | actor | The Seven Year Itch | (Samuel, Yewell) | |
| José Ferrer | 1952 | actor | The Shrike | (Vicente) | |
| David Wayne | 1954 | actor | The Teahouse of the August Moon | (James) | |
| Harvey Fierstein | 1983 | actor | Torch Song Trilogy | (Forbes) | |
| John Wood | 1976 | actor | Travesties | (Lamin) | |
| Robert Morse | 1990 | actor | Tru | (Alan) | |
| 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? | | |
| Tom Conti | 1979 | actor | Whose Life Is It Anyway? | (Tommaso, Antonio) | |
| 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) | |
| Stockard Channing | 1985 | actress | A Day in the Death of Joe Egg | (Susan, Antonia, Williams) | |
| 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) | |
| 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) | |
| Judi Dench | 1999 | actress | Amy's View | (Judith, Olivia) | |
| 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 | | |
| Linda Lavin | 1987 | actress | Broadway Bound | | |
| Joan Allen | 1988 | actress | Burn This | | |
| Phyllis Frelich | 1980 | actress | Children of a Lesser God | (Annetta) | |
| Shirley Booth | 1950 | actress | Come Back, Little Sheba | (Marjory) | |
| Deirdre O'Connell | 2022 | actress | Dana H. | | |
| Glenn Close | 1992 | actress | Death and the Maiden | | |
| Cherry Jones | 2005 | actress | Doubt | | |
| Viola Davis | 2010 | actress | Fences | | |
| Julie Harris | 1969 | actress | Forty Carats | (Julia, Ann) | |
| Jessica Tandy | 1983 | actress | Foxfire | (Jessie, Alice) | |
| Marcia Gay Harden | 2009 | actress | God of Carnage | | |
| Frances McDormand | 2011 | actress | Good People | (Cynthia, Ann, Louise) | |
| Helen Hayes | 1947 | actress | Happy Birthday | | |
| Julie Harris | 1952 | actress | I Am a Camera | (Julia, Ann) | |
| Ingrid Bergman | 1947 | actress | Joan of Lorraine | | |
| Audra McDonald | 2014 | actress | Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill | (Ann) | |
| Maggie Smith | 1990 | actress | Lettice and Lovage | (Margaret, Natalie) | |
| Vanessa Redgrave | 2003 | actress | Long Day's Journey into Night | | |
| Jessica Lange | 2016 | actress | Long Day's Journey into Night | (Phyllis) | |
| Mercedes Ruehl | 1991 | actress | Lost in Yonkers | | |
| Zoe Caldwell | 1996 | actress | Master Class | (Ada) | |
| Judith Anderson | 1948 | actress | Medea | (Frances, Margaret) | |
| Zoe Caldwell | 1982 | actress | Medea | (Ada) | |
| Diana Rigg | 1994 | actress | Medea | (Enid, Elizabeth) | |
| Audrey Hepburn | 1954 | actress | Ondine | (Kathleen) | |
| Jane Lapotaire | 1981 | actress | Piaf | (Elizabeth, Marie) | |
| Jodie Comer | 2023 | actress | Prima Facie | (Marie) | |
| Tammy Grimes | 1970 | actress | Private Lives | (Lee) | |
| Lindsay Duncan | 2002 | actress | Private Lives | (Vere) | |
| Mary-Louise Parker | 2001 | actress | Proof | | |
| Cynthia Nixon | 2006 | actress | Rabbit Hole | (Ellen) | |
| Ellen Burstyn | 1975 | actress | Same Time, Next Year | (Edna, Rae) | |
| Margaret Leighton | 1957 | actress | Separate Tables | | |
| Pauline Collins | 1989 | actress | Shirley Valentine | | |
| Irene Worth | 1976 | actress | Sweet Bird of Youth | (Harriett, Elizabeth) | |
| Helen Mirren | 2015 | actress | The Audience | (Lydia) | |
| Nancy Kelly | 1955 | actress | The Bad Seed | | |
| Marie Mullen | 1998 | actress | The Beauty Queen of Leenane | | |
| Julie Harris | 1977 | actress | The Belle of Amherst | (Julia, Ann) | |
| Uta Hagen | 1951 | actress | The Country Girl | (Thyra) | |
| Carole Shelley | 1979 | actress | The Elephant Man | (Augusta) | |
| Jessica Tandy | 1978 | actress | The Gin Game | (Jessie, Alice) | |
| Maureen Stapleton | 1971 | actress | The Gingerbread Lady | (Lois) | |
| Cherry Jones | 1995 | actress | The Heiress | | |
| 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) | |
| 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 | | |
| Zoe Caldwell | 1968 | actress | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | (Ada) | |
| Glenn Close | 1984 | actress | The Real Thing | | |
| Jennifer Ehle | 2000 | actress | The Real Thing | (Anne) | |
| Rita Moreno | 1975 | actress | The Ritz | | |
| Lily Tomlin | 1986 | actress | The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe | (Mary, Jean) | |
| Madeline Kahn | 1993 | actress | The Sisters Rosensweig | (Gail) | |
| Mary-Louise Parker | 2020 | actress | The Sound Inside | | |
| 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) | |
| Sada Thompson | 1972 | actress | Twigs | (Carolyn) | |
| Nina Arianda | 2012 | actress | Venus in Fur | | |
| Uta Hagen | 1963 | actress | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | (Thyra) | |
| Idina Menzel | 2004 | actress | Wicked | | |
| Constance Cummings | 1979 | actress | Wings | | |
| Mike Nichols | 1964 | director | Barefoot in the Park | (Michael, Igor) | |
| John Gielgud | 1961 | director | Big Fish, Little Fish | (Arthur) | |
| Mel Brooks | 2001 | director | The Producers | (Melvin, James) | |