Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical

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The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical is awarded to the actress who is voted the best non-starring actress in a musical, whether a new production or a revival. This award was introduced in 1950; prior to 1976, it was known as "Best Performance by a Featured or Supporting Actress in a Musical".

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[edit] Winners and nominees

In the following list, the winner is displayed first; the non-winning nominees, where known, are second. Prior to 1956, records of nominees were not kept.

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[edit] Multiple Winners

2 Wins

  • Audra McDonald


[edit] Multiple Nominees

3 Nominations

  • Andrea Martin
  • Karen Ziemba

2 Nominations

  • Laura Benanti
  • Gretha Boston
  • Helen Gallagher
  • Cady Huffman
  • Judy Kaye
  • Patsy Kelly
  • Jane Krakowski
  • Marcia Lewis
  • Priscilla Lopez
  • Julienne Marie
  • Millicent Martin
  • Audra McDonald
  • Josephine Premice
  • Chita Rivera
  • Mary Testa
  • Louise Troy
  • Mary Louise Wilson


[edit] Trivia

  • There have been no ties in the history of this category.


  • Never in the history of this category has a performer won a Tony Award by portraying a character previously embodied by a former winner. There have been winners emerging from the same musical, however, but never for playing the same role:
    • From Nine: Liliane Montevecchi, as Liliane la Fleur, in 1982, and Jane Krakowski, as Carla, in 2003 (Anita Morris had been nominated in 1982, also for her portrayal of Carla, but she did not win);


  • In fact, the Musical Nine holds a record of a combined total of six nominations to its female performers in this category, curiously, twice for each role, in 1982 and 2003:
    • Liliane Montevecchi (1982) and Chita Rivera (2003), as Liliane la Fleur;
    • Karen Akers (1982) and Mary Stuart Masterson (2003), as Louisa Contini;
    • Anita Morris (1982) and Jane Krakowski (2003), as Carla.


  • The role of Louise, in Gypsy, holds the record for most nominations in this category, with four:
    • 1960 – Sandra Church
    • 1975 – Zan Charisse
    • 1990 – Crista Moore
    • 2003 – Tammy Blanchard

None of these performers won.


  • Audra McDonald is, so far, the only performer to achieve the honor of multiple wins in this category, with two. The record of nominations, however, is held by Andrea Martin and Karen Ziemba, both have been nominated three times and victorious once.


  • There has never been a consecutive winner in this category. There have been, though, two consecutive nominations. Louise Troy holds this particular distinction, as she was consecutively nominated in 1963 and 1964.


  • Lauri Peters has the distinction of being the sole nominee ever to share a nomination with an ensemble. In 1960, Peters was cited among “the Children”, an assembly of young performers (including two males, in spite of this being a female category), which, alongside her, portrayed the Von Trapp siblings in The Sound of Music.


  • The record for the longest span between nominations for a particular performer is held by Chita Rivera, whose nominations for Bye Bye, Birdie, in 1961, and Nine, in 2003, are set apart by 42 years, over four decades.


  • The record for the longest span between nominations for a particular role is held by that of Gladys, from The Pajama Game. Carol Haney’s win in 1955 and Megan Lawrence’s nomination for the portrayal of the same role, in 2006, are set apart by 51 years, over half a century.de:Tony Award/Beste Nebendarstellerin in einem Musical

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