Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play: Information from Answers.com

This is a list of winners and nomination of the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress. The award was first presented in 1947.

1 Awards and nomination
- 1.1 1940s
- 1.2 1950s
- 1.3 1960s
- 1.4 1970s
- 1.5 1980s
- 1.6 1990s
- 1.7 2000s
2 Award records

Awards and nomination

1962: Elizabeth Ashley – Take Her, She's Mine
- Zohra Lampert – Look: We've Come Through
- Janet Margolin – Daughter of Silence
- Pat Stanely – Sunday in New York

1963: Sandy Dennis – A Thousand Clowns
- Melinda Dillon – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Alice Ghostley – The Beauty Part
- Zohra Lampert – Mother Courage and Her Children

1964: Barbara Loden – After the Fall
- Rosemary Murphy – Any Wednesday
- Kate Reid – Dylan
- Diana Sands – Blues for Mister Charlie

1965: Alice Ghostley – The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
- Rae Allen – Traveller Without Luggage
- Alexandra Berlin – All in Good Time
- Carolan Daniels – Slow Dance on the Killing Ground

1966: Zoe Caldwell – Slapstick Tragedy
- Glenda Jackson – Marat/Sade
- Mairin D. O'Sullivan – Philadelphia, Here I Come!
- Brenda Vaccaro – Cactus Flower

1967: Marian Seldes – A Delicate Balance
- Camila Ashland – Black Comedy
- Brenda Forbes – The Loves of Cass McGuire
- Maria Tucci – The Rose Tattoo

1968: Zena Walker – Joe Egg
- Pert Kelton – Spofford
- Ruth White – The Birthday Party
- Eleanor Wilson – Week End

1969: Jane Alexander – The Great White Hope
- Diane Keaton – Play It Again Sam
- Lauren Jones – Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?
- Anna Manahan – Lovers

1970s

1970: Blythe Danner – Butterflies Are Free
- Alice Drummond – The Chinese and Dr. Fish
- Eileen Heckart – Butterflies Are Free
- Linda Lavin – The Last of the Red Hot Lovers

1971: Rae Allen – And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little
- Lili Darvas – Les Blancs
- Joan Van Ark – The School for Wives
- Mona Washbourne – Home

1972: Elizabeth Wilson – Sticks and Bones
- Cara Duff-MacCormick – Moonchildren
- Mercedes McCambridge – The Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks
- Frances Sternhagen – The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window - Revival

1973: Leora Dana – The Last of Mrs. Lincoln
- Maya Angelou – Look Away
- Katherine Helmond – The Great God Brown
- Penelope Windust – Elizabeth I

1974: Frances Sternhagen – The Good Doctor
- Regina Baff – Veronica's Room
- Fionnula Flanagan – Ulysses in Nighttown
- Charlotte Moore – Chemin de Fer
- Roxie Roker – The River Niger

1975: Rita Moreno – The Ritz
- Linda Miller – Black Picture Show
- Geraldine Page – Absurd Person Singular
- Carole Shelley – Absurd Person Singular
- Elizabeth Spriggs – London Assurance
- Frances Sternhagen – Equus

1976: Shirley Knight – Kennedy's Children
- Mary Beth Hurt – Trelawny of the 'Wells'
- Lois Nettleton – They Knew What They Wanted
- Meryl Streep – 27 Wagons Full of Cotton/A Memory of Two Mondays

1977: Trazana Beverley – For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
- Patricia Elliott – The Shadow Box
- Rose Gregorio – The Shadow Box
- Mary McCarty – Anna Christie

1978: Ann Wedgeworth – Chapter Two
- Starletta DuPois – The Mighty Gents
- Swoosie Kurtz – Tartuffe
- Marian Seldes – Deathtrap

1979: Joan Hickson – Bedroom Farce
- Laurie Kennedy – Man and Superman
- Susan Littler – Bedroom Farce
- Mary-Joan Negro – Wings

1980s

1980: Dinah Manoff – I Ought to be in Pictures
- Maureen Anderman – The Lady from Dubuque
- Pamela Burrell – Strider
- Lois de Banzie – Morning's at Seven

1981: Swoosie Kurtz – Fifth of July
- Maureen Stapleton – The Little Foxes
- Jessica Tandy – Rose
- Zoë Wanamaker – Piaf

1982: Amanda Plummer – Agnes of God
- Judith Anderson – Medea
- Mia Dillon – Crimes of the Heart
- Mary Beth Hurt – Crimes of the Heart

1983: Judith Ivey – Steaming
- Elizabeth Franz – Brighton Beach Memoirs
- Roxanne Hart – Passion
- Margaret Tyzack – All's Well That Ends Well

1984: Christine Baranski – The Real Thing
- Jo Henderson – Play Memory
- Dana Ivey – Heartbreak House
- Deborah Rush – Noises Off

1985: Judith Ivey – Hurlyburly
- Joanna Gleason – Joe Egg
- Theresa Merritt – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
- Sigourney Weaver – Hurlyburly

1986: Swoosie Kurtz – The House of Blue Leaves
- Stockard Channing – The House of Blue Leaves
- Bethel Leslie – Long Day's Journey Into Night
- Zoë Wanamaker – Loot

1987: Mary Alice – Fences
- Annette Bening – Coastal Disturbances
- Phyllis Newman – Broadway Bound
- Carole Shelley – Stepping Out

1988: L. Scott Caldwell – Joe Turner's Come and Gone
- Kimberleigh Aarn – Joe Turner's Come and Gone
- Kate Nelligan – Serious Money
- Kimberly Scott – Joe Turner's Come and Gone

1989: Christine Baranski – Rumors
- Joanne Camp – The Heidi Chronicles
- Tovah Feldshuh – Lend Me a Tenor
- Penelope Ann Miller – Our Town

1990s

1990: Margaret Tyzack – Lettice and Lovage
- Polly Holliday – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- S. Epatha Merkerson – The Piano Lesson
- Lois Smith – The Grapes of Wrath

1991: Irene Worth – Lost in Yonkers
- Amelia Campbell – Our Country's Good
- Kathryn Erbe – The Speed of Darkness
- J. Smith-Cameron – Our Country's Good

1992: Brid Brennan – Dancing at Lughnasa
- Rosaleen Linehan – Dancing at Lughnasa
- Cynthia Martells – Two Trains Running
- Dearbhla Molloy – Dancing at Lughnasa

1993: Debra Monk – Redwood Curtain
- Kathleen Chalfant – Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
- Marcia Gay Harden – Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
- Anne Meara – Anna Christie

1994: Jane Adams – An Inspector Calls
- Debra Monk – Picnic
- Jeanne Paulsen – The Kentucky Cycle
- Anne Pitoniak – Picnic

1995: Frances Sternhagen – The Heiress
- Suzanne Bertish – The Molière Comedies
- Cynthia Nixon – Indiscretions
- Ramona Cole - Macbeth
- Mercedes Ruehl – The Shadow Box

1996: Audra McDonald – Master Class
- Viola Davis – Seven Guitars
- Michele Shay – Seven Guitars
- Lois Smith – Buried Child

1997: Lynne Thigpen – An American Daughter
- Helen Carey – London Assurance
- Dana Ivey – The Last Night of Ballyhoo
- Celia Weston – The Last Night of Ballyhoo

1998: Anna Manahan – The Beauty Queen of Leenane
- Enid Graham – Honour
- Linda Lavin – The Diary of Anne Frank
- Julyana Soelistyo – Golden Child

1999: Elizabeth Franz – Death of a Salesman
- Claire Bloom – Electra
- Samantha Bond – Amy's View
- Dawn Bradfield – The Lonesome West

2000s

2000: Blair Brown – Copenhagen
- Frances Conroy – The Ride Down Mt. Morgan
- Amy Ryan – Uncle Vanya
- Helen Stenborg – Waiting in the Wings
- Sarah Woodward – The Real Thing

2001: Viola Davis – King Hedley II
- Johanna Day – Proof
- Penny Fuller – Neil Simon's The Dinner Party
- Marthe Keller – Judgment at Nuremberg
- Michele Lee – The Tale of the Allergist's Wife

2002: Katie Finneran – Noises Off
- Kate Burton – The Elephant Man
- Elizabeth Franz – Morning's at Seven
- Estelle Parsons – Morning's at Seven
- Frances Sternhagen – Morning's at Seven

2003: Michele Pawk – Hollywood Arms
- Christine Ebersole – Dinner at Eight
- Linda Emond – Life (x) 3
- Kathryn Meisle – Tartuffe
- Marian Seldes – Dinner at Eight

2004: Audra McDonald – A Raisin in the Sun
- Essie Davis – Jumpers
- Sanaa Lathan – A Raisin in the Sun
- Margo Martindale – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Daphne Rubin-Vega – Anna in the Tropics

2005: Adriane Lenox – Doubt
- Mireille Enos – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Heather Goldenhersh – Doubt
- Dana Ivey – The Rivals
- Amy Ryan – A Streetcar Named Desire

2006: Frances de la Tour – The History Boys
- Tyne Daly – Rabbit Hole
- Jayne Houdyshell – Well
- Alison Pill – The Lieutenant of Inishmore
- Zoë Wanamaker – Awake and Sing!

2007: Jennifer Ehle – The Coast of Utopia
- Xanthe Elbrick – Coram Boy
- Dana Ivey – Butley
- Jan Maxwell – Coram Boy
- Martha Plimpton – The Coast of Utopia

2008: Rondi Reed – August: Osage County
- Sinéad Cusack – Rock 'n' Roll
- Mary McCormack – Boeing Boeing
- Laurie Metcalf – November
- Martha Plimpton – Top Girls

2009: Angela Lansbury – Blithe Spirit
- Hallie Foote – Dividing the Estate
- Jessica Hynes – The Norman Conquests
- Marin Ireland – reasons to be pretty
- Amanda Root – The Norman Conquests

Award records

Wins

Christine Baranski (2)
Judith Ivey (2)
Swoosie Kurtz (2)
Audra McDonald (2)
Frances Sternhagen (2)

Nominations

Frances Sternhagen (5)
Dana Ivey (4)
Elizabeth Franz (3)
Eileen Heckhart (3)
Swoosie Kurtz (3)
Marian Seldes (3)
Zoë Wanamaker (3)
Christine Baranski (2)

Leora Dana (2)
Viola Davis (2)
Rae Allen (2)
Alice Ghostley (2)
Mary Beth Hurt (2)
Judith Ivey (2)
Zohra Lampert (2)
Linda Lavin (2)
Anna Manahan (2)

Audra McDonald (2)
Debra Monk (2)
Rosemary Murphy (2)
Martha Plimpton (2)
Amy Ryan (2)
Carole Shelley (2)
Lois Smith (2)
Maureen Stapleton (2)
Margaret Tyzack (2)

v • d • e Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play

Patricia Neal (1947) · Shirley Booth (1949) · Maureen Stapleton (1951) · Marian Winters (1952) · Beatrice Straight (1953) · Jo Van Fleet (1954) · Patricia Jessel (1955) · Una Merkel (1956) · Peggy Cass (1957) · Anne Bancroft (1958) · Julie Newmar (1959) · Anne Revere (1960) · Colleen Dewhurst (1961) · Elizabeth Ashley (1962) · Sandy Dennis (1963) · Barbara Loden (1964) · Alice Ghostley (1965) · Zoe Caldwell (1966) · Marian Seldes (1967) · Zena Walker (1968) · Jane Alexander (1969) · Blythe Danner (1970) · Rae Allen (1971) · Elizabeth Wilson (1972) · Leora Dana (1973) · Frances Sternhagen (1974) · Rita Moreno (1975) · Shirley Knight (1976) · Trazana Beverley (1977) · Ann Wedgeworth (1978) · Joan Hickson (1979) · Dinah Manoff (1980) · Swoosie Kurtz (1981) · Amanda Plummer (1982) · Judith Ivey (1983) · Christine Baranski (1984) · Judith Ivey (1985) · Swoosie Kurtz (1986) · Mary Alice (1987) · L. Scott Caldwell (1988) · Christine Baranski (1989) · Margaret Tyzack (1990) · Irene Worth (1991) · Brid Brennan (1992) · Debra Monk (1993) · Jane Adams (1994) · Frances Sternhagen (1995) · Audra McDonald (1996) · Lynne Thigpen (1997) · Anna Manahan (1998) · Elizabeth Franz (1999) · Blair Brown (2000) · Viola Davis (2001) · Katie Finneran (2002) · Michele Pawk (2003) · Audra McDonald (2004) · Adriane Lenox (2005) · Frances de la Tour (2006) · Jennifer Ehle (2007) · Rondi Reed (2008) · Angela Lansbury (2009)

Complete list: (1947-1975) · (1976-2000) · (2001-present)

v • d • e Tony Awards

Play	Best Play · Best Direction of a Play · Best Leading Actor in a Play · Best Leading Actress in a Play · Best Featured Actor in a Play · Best Featured Actress in a Play · Best Costume Design of a Play · Best Lighting Design of a Play · Best Revival of a Play · Best Scenic Design of a Play · Best Sound Design of a Play

Musical	Best Musical · Best Direction of a Musical · Best Leading Actor in a Musical · Best Leading Actress in a Musical · Best Featured Actor in a Musical · Best Featured Actress in a Musical · Best Book of a Musical · Best Choreography · Best Costume Design of a Musical · Best Lighting Design of a Musical · Best Orchestrations · Best Original Score · Best Revival of a Musical · Best Scenic Design of a Musical · Best Sound Design of a Musical

Special	Regional Theatre Tony Award · Special Tony Award · Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre

Retired	Best Author · Best Conductor and Musical Director · Best Director · Best Revival · Best Special Theatrical Event · Best Stage Technician ·

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

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Awards and nomination

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1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

Award records