Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play
For the Tony Award / Best Actor, all actors who have played in New York in plays and musicals throughout the year on Broadway, will be nominated. The Tony Award for Best Performance in a male lead role in a play went to so far:
1947-1949
1950-1959
1960-1969
1970-1979
1980-1989
1990-1999
2000-2009
- 2000: Stephen Dillane ( in The Real Thing )
- 2001: Richard Easton ( The Invention of Love in )
- 2002: Alan Bates ( Fortune 's Fool )
- 2003: Brian Dennehy ( in Long Day's Journey into Night )
- 2004: Jefferson Mays ( I Am My Own Wife in )
- 2005: Bill Irwin ( in Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? )
- 2006: Richard Griffiths ( in The History Boys )
- 2007: Frank Langella ( in Frost / Nixon )
- 2008: Mark Rylance ( Boeing - Boeing in )
- 2009: Geoffrey Rush ( in Exit the King )
Since 2010
- 2010: Denzel Washington ( Fences in )
- 2011: Mark Rylance ( Jerusalem )
- 2012: James Corden ( in One Man, Two Guvnors ).
- 2013: Tracy Letts ( in Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ).
- List ( Awards )
- Tony Award