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

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The Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play is awarded to the actress who was voted as the best actress in a play, whether a new production or a revival. The award has been announced since 1947, but the nominees who did not win have only been announced since 1956.

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[edit] 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

[edit] 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
  • 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

[edit] Trivia

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  • There have only been three ties in the history of this category:
    • 1947: Between Ingrid Bergman (Joan of Lorraine) and Helen Hayes (Happy Birthday);
    • 1948: A triple tie: Judith Anderson (Medea), Katharine Cornell (Antony and Cleopatra), and Jessica Tandy (A Streetcar Named Desire) ;
    • 1979: Between Constance Cummings (Wings) and Carole Shelley (The Elephant Man).


  • The female lead role in Medea, commonly regarded as the greatest theatric role for a female actor, has collected most wins in Tony Awards history in this category:
    • 1948 - Judith Anderson
    • 1982 - Zoe Caldwell
    • 1994 - Diana Rigg

Additionally, one last nomination was announced to Fiona Shaw in 2003.


  • The female lead role in Private Lives, is the only other role with multiple wins in this category:
    • 1970 - Tammy Grimes
    • 2002 - Lindsay Duncan

Maggie Smith was also nominated for the same role in 1975.


  • Julie Harris reigns supreme in the category with 5 wins among 9 nominations. Closest in nominations are Rosemary Harris (8) and Colleen Dewhurst (7). Each of them has won only once, though.


  • Jane Alexander has been nominated 6 times, but has never won. She's the category's greatest "loser". Other multiple nominees who have never won are Eileen Atkins (4), Glenda Jackson (3), Kate Nelligan (3), Geraldine Page (3), Estelle Parsons (3) and Lynn Redgrave (3).


  • There has never been a consecutive winner in this category. There have been, though, some consecutive nominations. Rosemary Harris and Colleen Dewhurst hold the record with 3 consecutive nominations (1984-1985-1986 and 1972-1973-1974, respectively).


  • Colleen Dewhurst also holds the record for most nominations in a single decade. She was nominated four times in the 70's, three times consecutively (1972-1973-1974) and once more in 1977. She won in 1974, for her performance in A Moon for the Misbegotten.


  • Four other actresses have been nominated for their performances in A Moon for the Misbegotten: Wendy Hiller (1958), Kate Nelligan (1984), Cherry Jones (2000), and Eve Best (2007). None of them won.


  • Phylicia Rashad in the first, and so far only, African-American actress to win a Tony in this category. She won in 2004, for her performance in "A Raisin in the Sun".


  • Albeit being one of the greatest winners in the Tony Awards history, with 4 victories in the category Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical, Angela Lansbury garnered her first nomination as a Leading Actress in a Play in 2007, at the age of 81, for her performance in Deuce.de:Tony Award/Beste Hauptdarstellerin

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