Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
For the Tony Award / Best Actress, all actresses 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 female lead role in a play went to so far:
1947-1949
1950-1959
1960-1969
1970-1979
1980-1989
1990-1999
2000-2009
- 2000: Jennifer Ehle ( in The Real Thing )
- 2001: Mary- Louise Parker ( in proof)
- 2002: Lindsay Duncan ( Private Lives in )
- 2003: Vanessa Redgrave ( in Long Day's Journey into Night )
- 2004: Phylicia Rashad ( A Raisin in the Sun in )
- 2005: Cherry Jones ( Doubt in )
- 2006: Cynthia Nixon ( in Rabbit Hole )
- 2007: Julie White ( The Little Dog Laughed in )
- 2008: Deanna Dunagan ( in August: Osage County)
- 2009: Marcia Gay Harden ( in God of Carnage )
Since 2010
- 2010: Viola Davis ( Fences in )
- 2011: Frances McDormand ( Good People in )
- 2013: Cicely Tyson ( in The Trip to Bountiful )
- List ( Awards )
- Tony Award