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.
- 1947 Ingrid Bergman. Joan of Lorraine and Helen Hayes. Happy Birthday (tie)
- 1948 Judith Anderson. Medea and Katharine Cornell. Antony and Cleopatra and Jessica Tandy. A Streetcar Named Desire (tie)
- 1949 Martita Hunt. The Madwoman of Chaillot
- 1951 Uta Hagen. The Country Girl
- 1952 Julie Harris. I Am a Camera
- 1998 Marie Mullen, The Beauty Queen of Leenane
- *Jane Alexander, Honour
- *Allison Janney, A View From the Bridge
- *Geraldine McEwan, The Chairs
- 1999 Judi Dench, Amy's View
- *Stockard Channing, The Lion in Winter
- *Marian Seldes, Ring Round the Moon
- *Zoe Wanamaker, Electra
- 2000 Jennifer Ehle, The Real Thing
- *Jayne Atkinson, The Rainmaker
- *Rosemary Harris, Waiting in the Wings
- *Cherry Jones, A Moon for the Misbegotten
- *Claudia Shear, Dirty Blonde
- 2001 Mary-Louise Parker, Proof
- *Juliette Binoche, Betrayal
- *Linda Lavin, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife
- *Jean Smart, The Man Who Came to Dinner
- *Leslie Uggams, King Hedley II
- 2002 Lindsay Duncan, Private Lives
- *Kate Burton, Hedda Gabler
- *Laura Linney, The Crucible
- *Helen Mirren, Dance of Death
- *Mercedes Ruehl, The Goat or Who is Sylvia
- 2003 Vanessa Redgrave, Long Day's Journey Into Night
- *Jayne Atkinson, Enchanted April
- *Victoria Hamilton, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
- *Clare Higgins, Vincent in Brixton
- *Fiona Shaw, Medea
- 2004 Phylicia Rashad, A Raisin in the Sun
- *Eileen Atkins, The Retreat From Moscow
- *Tovah Feldshuh, Golda's Balcony
- *Anne Heche, Twentieth Century
- *Swoosie Kurtz, Frozen
- 2005 Cherry Jones, Doubt
- *Laura Linney, Sight Unseen
- *Mary-Louise Parker, Reckless
- *Phylicia Rashad, Gem of the Ocean
- *Kathleen Turner, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- 2006 Cynthia Nixon, Rabbit Hole
- *Kate Burton. The Constant Wife''
- *Judy Kaye. Souvenir''
- *Lisa Kron. Well''
- *Lynn Redgrave. The Constant Wife''
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