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