Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play


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This is a list of the winners and nominations of Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. The award has been presented since 1947, and is for performance in new productions or revivals.

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Awards and nominations

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

Multiple winners

5 Wins

  • Julie Harris

3 Wins

  • Zoe Caldwell
  • Jessica Tandy

2 Wins

  • Shirley Booth
  • Glenn Close
  • Uta Hagen
  • Helen Hayes
  • Cherry Jones
  • Margaret Leighton

Multiple Nominees

9 Nominations

  • Julie Harris

8 Nominations

  • Rosemary Harris

7 Nominations

  • Colleen Dewhurst

6 Nominations

  • Jane Alexander

4 Nominations

  • Eileen Atkins
  • Stockard Channing
  • Cherry Jones
  • Margaret Leighton
  • Maureen Stapleton
  • Jessica Tandy
  • Irene Worth

3 Nominations

  • Zoe Caldwell
  • Helen Hayes
  • Glenda Jackson
  • Madeline Kahn
  • Kate Nelligan
  • Geraldine Page
  • Mary-Louise Parker
  • Estelle Parsons
  • Lynn Redgrave
  • Diana Rigg
  • Maggie Smith

2 Nominations

  • Joan Allen
  • Elizabeth Ashley
  • Jayne Atkinson
  • Anne Bancroft
  • Barbara Bel Geddes
  • Eve Best
  • Shirley Booth
  • Kate Burton
  • Glenn Close
  • Blythe Danner
  • Lindsay Duncan
  • Tovah Feldshuh
  • Uta Hagen
  • Swoosie Kurtz
  • Linda Lavin
  • Laura Linney
  • Siobhán McKenna
  • Claudia McNeil
  • Helen Mirren
  • Amanda Plummer
  • Phylicia Rashad
  • Vanessa Redgrave
  • Mercedes Ruehl
  • Marian Seldes
  • Kim Stanley
  • Kathleen Turner
  • Liv Ullmann

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