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