Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play

The Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play is an honor presented at the Tony Awards, a ceremony established in 1947 as the Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, to actors for quality supporting roles in a Broadway play. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, to "honor the best performances and stage productions of the previous year."

Tony Award for
Best Featured Actor in a Play
2025 recipient: Francis Jue
DescriptionBest Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
LocationUnited States New York City
Presented byAmerican Theatre Wing The Broadway League
Currently held byFrancis Jue for Yellow Face (2025)
WebsiteTonyAwards.com

The award was originally called the Tony Award for Actor, Supporting or Featured (Dramatic). It was first presented to Arthur Kennedy at the 3rd Tony Awards for his portrayal of Biff Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. Before 1956, nominees' names were not made public; the change was made by the awards committee to "have a greater impact on theatregoers".

Frank Langella holds the record for having the most wins in this category, with a total of two; he is the only person to win the award more than once. Richard Roma in Glengarry Glen Ross, Phil Hogan in A Moon for the Misbegotten, and Mason Marzac in Take Me Out are the only characters to take the award multiple times, all winning twice.

Winners and nominees

  indicates the winner

1940s

Year Actor Play Role(s) Ref.
1949
(3rd)
Arthur Kennedy Death of a Salesman Biff Loman

1950s

Year Actor Play Role(s) Ref.
1950
(4th)
Not awarded
1951
(5th)
Eli Wallach The Rose Tattoo Alvaro Mangiacavallo
1952
(6th)
John Cromwell Point of No Return John Gray
1953
(7th)
John Williams Dial M for Murder Inspector Hubbard
1954
(8th)
John Kerr Tea and Sympathy Tom Robinson Lee
1955
(9th)
Francis L. Sullivan Witness for the Prosecution Sir Wilfrid Robats, Q.C.
1956
(10th)
Ed Begley Inherit the Wind Matthew Harrison Brady
Anthony Franciosa A Hatful of Rain Polo Pope
Andy Griffith No Time for Sergeants Will Stockdale
Anthony Quayle Tamburlaine the Great Tamburlaine
Fritz Weaver The Chalk Garden Maitland
1957
(11th)
Frank Conroy The Potting Shed Father William Callifer
Eddie Mayehoff A Visit to a Small Planet General Tom Powers
William Podmore Separate Tables Mr. Fowler
Jason Robards Long Day's Journey into Night James Tyrone Jr.
1958
(12th)
Henry Jones Sunrise at Campobello Louis McHenry Howe
Sig Arno Time Remembered Ferdinand
Theodore Bikel The Rope Dancers Dr. Jacobson
Pat Hingle The Dark at the Top of the Stairs Rubin Flood
George Relph The Entertainer Billy Rice
1959
(13th)
Charlie Ruggles The Pleasure of His Company Mackenzie Savage
Marc Connelly Tall Story Professor Charles Osman
George Grizzard The Disenchanted Shep Stearns
Walter Matthau Once More, with Feeling! Maxwell Archer
Robert Morse Say, Darling Ted Snow
George C. Scott Comes a Day Tydings Glenn

1960s

Year Actor Play Role(s) Ref.
1960
(14th)
Roddy McDowall The Fighting Cock Tarquin Edward Mendigales
Warren Beatty A Loss of Roses Kenny
Harry Guardino One More River Pompey
Rip Torn Sweet Bird of Youth Tom Junior
Lawrence Winters The Long Dream Tyree Tucker
1961
(15th)
Martin Gabel Big Fish, Little Fish Basil Smythe
Philip Bosco The Rape of the Belt Heracles
Eduardo Ciannelli The Devil's Advocate Aurelio
George Grizzard Big Fish, Little Fish Ronnie Johnson
1962
(16th)
Walter Matthau A Shot in the Dark Benjamin Beaurevers
Godfrey Cambridge Purlie Victorious Gitlow Judson
Joseph Campanella A Gift of Time Daniel Stein
Paul Sparer Ross Auda Abu Tayi
1963
(17th)
Alan Arkin Enter Laughing David Kolowitz
Barry Gordon A Thousand Clowns Nick Burns
Paul Rogers Photo Finish Reginald Kinsale, Esq.
Frank Silvera The Lady of the Carnellias M. Duval
1964
(18th)
Hume Cronyn Hamlet Polonius
Lee Allen Marathon '33 Patsy
Michael Dunn The Ballad of the Sad Café Cousin Lyman
Larry Gates A Case of Libel Boyd Bendix
1965
(19th)
Jack Albertson The Subject Was Roses John Cleary
Murray Hamilton Absence of a Cello Otis Clifton
Martin Sheen The Subject Was Roses Timmy Cleary
Clarence Williams III Slow Dance on the Killing Ground Randall
1966
(20th)
Patrick Magee Marat/Sade Marquis de Sade
Burt Brinckerhoff Cactus Flower Igor
Larry Haines Generation Stan Herman
Eamon Kelly Philadelphia, Here I Come! S. B. O'Donnell
1967
(21st)
Ian Holm The Homecoming Lenny
Clayton Corzatte The School for Scandal Charles Surface
Stephen Elliott Marat/Sade Mr. Coulmier
Sydney Walker The Wild Duck Lt. Ekdal
1968
(22nd)
James Patterson The Birthday Party Stanley
Paul Hecht Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead The Player
Brian Murray Rosencrantz
John Wood Guildenstern
1969
(23rd)
Al Pacino Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? Bickham
Richard S. Castellano Lovers and Other Strangers Frank
Tony Roberts Play It Again, Sam Dick Christie
Louis Zorich Hadrian VII Cardinal Ragna

1970s

Year Actor Play Role(s) Ref.
1970
(24th)
Ken Howard Child's Play Paul Reese
Joseph Bova The Chinese and Dr. Fish Mr. Lee
Dennis King A Patriot for Me Baron von Epp
1971
(25th)
Paul Sand Paul Sills' Story Theatre Various Characters
Ronald Radd Abelard and Heloise Gilies de Vannes
Donald Pickering Conduct Unbecoming Capt. Rupert Harper
Ed Zimmermann The Philanthropist Donald
1972
(26th)
Vincent Gardenia The Prisoner of Second Avenue Harry Edison
Douglas Rain Vivat! Vivat Regina! William Cecil
Lee Richardson Lord Bothwell
Joe Silver Lenny Various Characters
1973
(27th)
John Lithgow The Changing Room Kenny Kendal
Barnard Hughes Much Ado About Nothing Dogberry
John McMartin Don Juan Sganarelle
Hayward Morse Butley Joseph Keyston
1974
(28th)
Ed Flanders A Moon for the Misbegotten Phil Hogan
René Auberjonois The Good Doctor Performer
Douglas Turner Ward The River Niger Johnny Williams
Dick Anthony Williams What the Wine-Sellers Buy Rico
1975
(29th)
Frank Langella Seascape Leslie
Larry Blyden Absurd Person Singular Sidney
Leonard Frey The National Health Barnet
Philip Locke Sherlock Holmes Professor Moriarty
George Rose My Fat Friend Henry
Dick Anthony Williams Black Picture Show Alexander
1976
(30th)
Edward Herrmann Mrs. Warren's Profession Frank Gardner
Barry Bostwick They Knew What They Wanted Joe
Gabriel Dell Lamppost Reunion Fred Santora
Daniel Seltzer Knock Knock Cohn
1977
(31st)
Jonathan Pryce Comedians Gethin Price
Bob Dishy Sly Fox Abner Truckle
Joe Fields The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel First Sergeant Tower
Laurence Luckinbill The Shadow Box Brian
1978
(32nd)
Lester Rawlins Da Drumm
Morgan Freeman The Mighty Gents Zeke
Victor Garber Deathtrap Clifford Anderson
Cliff Gorman Chapter Two Leo Schneider
1979
(33rd)
Michael Gough Bedroom Farce Ernest
Bob Balaban The Inspector General Óssip
Joseph Maher Spokesong The Trick Cyclist
Edward James Olmos Zoot Suit El Pachuco

1980s

Year Actor Play Role(s) Ref.
1980
(34th)
David Rounds Morning's at Seven Homer Bolton
David Dukes Bent Horst
George Hearn Watch on the Rhine Kurt Muller
Earle Hyman The Lady from Dubuque Oscar
Joseph Maher Night and Day Geoffrey Carson
1981
(35th)
Brian Backer The Floating Light Bulb Paul Pollack
Tom Aldredge The Little Foxes Horace Giddens
Adam Redfield A Life Desmond
Shepperd Strudwick To Grandmother's House We Go Jared
1982
(36th)
Zakes Mokae Master Harold...and the Boys Sam
Richard Kavanaugh The Hothouse Gibbs
Edward Petherbridge The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Newman Noggs
David Threlfall Smike
1983
(37th)
Matthew Broderick Brighton Beach Memoirs Eugene Jerome
Željko Ivanek Brighton Beach Memoirs Stanley Jerome
George N. Martin Plenty Leonard Darwin
Stephen Moore All's Well That Ends Well Captain Parolles
1984
(38th)
Joe Mantegna Glengarry Glen Ross Richard Roma
Philip Bosco Heartbreak House Boss Mangan
Robert Prosky Glengarry Glen Ross Shelly Levene
Douglas Seale Noises Off Selsdon Mowbray
1985
(39th)
Barry Miller Biloxi Blues Arnold Epstein
Charles S. Dutton Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Levee
William Hurt Hurlyburly Eddie
Edward Petherbridge Strange Interlude Charles Marsden
1986
(40th)
John Mahoney The House of Blue Leaves Artie Shaughnessy
Peter Gallagher Long Day's Journey into Night Edmund Tyrone
Charles Keating Loot McLeavy
Joseph Maher Truscott
1987
(41st)
John Randolph Broadway Bound Ben
Frankie R. Faison Fences Gabriel Maxson
Jamey Sheridan All My Sons Chris Keller
Courtney B. Vance Fences Cory Maxson
1988
(42nd)
BD Wong M. Butterfly Song Liling
Michael Gough Breaking the Code Dillwyn Knox
Lou Liberatore Burn This Larry
Delroy Lindo Joe Turner's Come and Gone Herald Loomis
1989
(43rd)
Boyd Gaines The Heidi Chronicles Peter Patrone
Peter Frechette Eastern Standard Drew
Eric Stoltz Our Town George Gibbs
Gordon Joseph Weiss Ghetto The Dummy

1990s

Year Actor Play Role(s) Ref.
1990
(44th)
Charles Durning Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Big Daddy
Rocky Carroll The Piano Lesson Lymon
Terry Kinney The Grapes of Wrath Jim Casy
Gary Sinise Tom Joad
1991
(45th)
Kevin Spacey Lost in Yonkers Louie Kurnitz
Adam Arkin I Hate Hamlet Gary Peter Lefkowitz
Dylan Baker La Bête Prince County
Stephen Lang The Speed of Darkness Lou
1992
(46th)
Laurence Fishburne Two Trains Running Sterling
Roscoe Lee Browne Two Trains Running Holloway
Željko Ivanek Two Shakespearean Actors John Ryder
Tony Shalhoub Conversations with My Father Charlie
1993
(47th)
Stephen Spinella Angels in America: Millennium Approaches Prior Walter, et al.
Robert Sean Leonard Candida Eugene Marchbanks
Joe Mantello Angels in America: Millennium Approaches Louis Ironson
Zakes Mokae The Song of Jacob Zulu Rev. Zulu/Mr. X, Itshe
1994
(48th)
Jeffrey Wright Angels in America: Perestroika Norman "Belize" Arriaga, et al.
Larry Bryggman Picnic Howard Bevans
David Marshall Grant Angels in America: Perestroika Joe Pitt, et al.
Gregory Itzin The Kentucky Cycle Various Characters
1995
(49th)
John Glover Love! Valour! Compassion! John and James Jeckyll
Stephen Bogardus Love! Valour! Compassion! Gregory Mitchell
Anthony Heald Perry Sellars
Jude Law Indiscretions Michael
1996
(50th)
Ruben Santiago-Hudson Seven Guitars Canewell
James Gammon Buried Child Dodge
Roger Robinson Seven Guitars Hedley
Reg Rogers Holiday Ned Seton
1997
(51st)
Owen Teale A Doll's House Torvald Helmer
Terry Beaver The Last Night of Ballyhoo Adolph
Brian Murray The Little Foxes Oscar
Biff McGuire The Young Man from Atlanta Pete Davenport
1998
(52nd)
Tom Murphy The Beauty Queen of Leenane Ray Dooley
Brían F. O'Byrne The Beauty Queen of Leenane Pato Dooley
Sam Trammell Ah, Wilderness! Richard Miller
Max Wright Ivanov Pavel Lebedev
1999
(53rd)
Frank Wood Side Man Gene
Kevin Anderson Death of a Salesman Biff Loman
Finbar Lynch Not About Nightingales Jim Allison
Howard Witt Death of a Salesman Charley

2000s

Year Actor Play Role(s) Ref.
2000
(54th)
Roy Dotrice A Moon for the Misbegotten Phil Hogan
Kevin Chamberlin Dirty Blonde Various Characters
Daniel Davis Wrong Mountain Maurice Montesor
Derek Smith The Green Bird Tartaglia
Bob Stillman Dirty Blonde Various Characters
2001
(55th)
Robert Sean Leonard The Invention of Love A. E. Housman, ages 18 to 26
Charles Brown King Hedley II Elmore
Larry Bryggman Proof Robert
Michael Hayden Judgment at Nuremberg Oscar Rolfe
Ben Shenkman Proof Hal
2002
(56th)
Frank Langella Fortune's Fool Flegont Alexandrovitch Tropatchov
Brian Murray The Crucible Deputy-Governor Danforth
William Biff McGuire Morning's at Seven Theodore Swanson
Sam Robards The Man Who Had All the Luck Gustav Eberson
Stephen Tobolowsky Morning's at Seven Homer Bolton
2003
(57th)
Denis O'Hare Take Me Out Mason Marzac
Thomas Jefferson Byrd Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Toledo
Philip Seymour Hoffman Long Day's Journey into Night James Tyrone Jr.
Robert Sean Leonard Edmund Tyrone
Daniel Sunjata Take Me Out Darren Lemming
2004
(58th)
Brían F. O'Byrne Frozen Ralph
Tom Aldredge Twentieth Century Matthew Clark
Ben Chaplin The Retreat from Moscow Jamie
Aidan Gillen The Caretaker Mick
Omar Metwally Sixteen Wounded Mahmoud
2005
(59th)
Liev Schreiber Glengarry Glen Ross Richard Roma
Alan Alda Glengarry Glen Ross Shelly Levene
Gordon Clapp Moss
David Harbour Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Nick
Michael Stuhlbarg The Pillowman Michael
2006
(60th)
Ian McDiarmid Faith Healer Teddy
Samuel Barnett The History Boys Posner
Domhnall Gleeson The Lieutenant of Inishmore Davey
Mark Ruffalo Awake and Sing! Moe Axelrod
Pablo Schreiber Ralph Berger
2007
(61st)
Billy Crudup The Coast of Utopia Vissarion Belinsky
Anthony Chisholm Radio Golf Elder Joseph Barlow
Ethan Hawke The Coast of Utopia Michael Bakunin
John Earl Jelks Radio Golf Sterling Johnson
Stark Sands Journey's End Lieut. Raleigh
2008
(62nd)
Jim Norton The Seafarer Richard Harkin
Bobby Cannavale Mauritius Dennis
Raúl Esparza The Homecoming Lenny
Conleth Hill The Seafarer Ivan Curry
David Pittu Is He Dead? Various Characters
2009
(63rd)
Roger Robinson Joe Turner's Come and Gone Bynum Walker
John Glover Waiting for Godot Lucky
Zach Grenier 33 Variations Beethoven
Stephen Mangan The Norman Conquests Norman
Paul Ritter Reg

2010s

Year Actor Play Role(s) Ref.
2010
(64th)
Eddie Redmayne Red Ken
David Alan Grier Race Henry Brown
Stephen Henderson Fences Jim Bono
Jon Michael Hill Superior Donuts Franco
Stephen Kunken Enron Andy Fastow
2011
(65th)
John Benjamin Hickey The Normal Heart Felix Turner
Mackenzie Crook Jerusalem Ginger
Billy Crudup Arcadia Bernard Nightingale
Arian Moayed Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo Musa
Yul Vázquez The Motherfucker with the Hat Cousin Julio
2012
(66th)
Christian Borle Peter and the Starcatcher Black Stache
Michael Cumpsty End of the Rainbow Anthony
Tom Edden One Man, Two Guvnors Alfie
Andrew Garfield Death of a Salesman Biff Loman
Jeremy Shamos Clybourne Park Karl/Steve
2013
(67th)
Courtney B. Vance Lucky Guy Hap Hairston
Danny Burstein Golden Boy Tokio
Richard Kind The Big Knife Marcus Hoff
Billy Magnussen Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Spike
Tony Shalhoub Golden Boy Mr. Bonaparte
2014
(68th)
Mark Rylance Twelfth Night Countess Olivia
Reed Birney Casa Valentina Charlotte
Paul Chahidi Twelfth Night Maria
Stephen Fry Malvolio
Brian J. Smith The Glass Menagerie Jim O'Connor
2015
(69th)
Richard McCabe The Audience Harold Wilson
Matthew Beard Skylight Edward Sergeant
K. Todd Freeman Airline Highway Sissy Na Na
Alessandro Nivola The Elephant Man Frederick Treves
Nathaniel Parker Wolf Hall Parts One & Two Henry VIII
Micah Stock It's Only a Play Gus P. Head
2016
(70th)
Reed Birney The Humans Erik Blake
Bill Camp The Crucible Reverend John Hale
David Furr Noises Off Gary Lejeune
Richard Goulding King Charles III Prince Harry
Michael Shannon Long Day's Journey into Night James Tyrone Jr.
2017
(71st)
Michael Aronov Oslo Uri Savir
Danny DeVito The Price Gregory Solomon
Nathan Lane The Front Page Walter Burns
Richard Thomas The Little Foxes Horace Giddens
John Douglas Thompson Jitney Jim Becker
2018
(72nd)
Nathan Lane Angels in America Roy Cohn, et al.
Anthony Boyle Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Scorpius Malfoy
Michael Cera Lobby Hero Jeff
Brian Tyree Henry William
David Morse The Iceman Cometh Larry Slade
2019
(73rd)
Bertie Carvel Ink Rupert Murdoch
Robin de Jesús The Boys in the Band Emory
Gideon Glick To Kill a Mockingbird Dill Harris
Brandon Uranowitz Burn This Larry
Benjamin Walker All My Sons Chris Keller

2020s

Year Actor Play Role(s) Ref.
2020
(74th)
David Alan Grier A Soldier's Play Sergeant Vernon C. Waters
Ato Blankson-Wood Slave Play Gary
James Cusati-Moyer Dustin
John Benjamin Hickey The Inheritance Henry Wilcox
Paul Hilton Walter Poole/Morgan
2021 No ceremony
2022
(75th)
Jesse Tyler Ferguson Take Me Out Mason Marzac
Alfie Allen Hangmen Mooney
Chuck Cooper Trouble in Mind Sheldon Forrester
Ron Cephas Jones Clyde's Montrellous
Michael Oberholtzer Take Me Out Shane Mungitt
Jesse Williams Darren Lemming
2023
(76th)
Brandon Uranowitz Leopoldstadt Ludwig Jakobovicz / Nathan Fischbein
Jordan E. Cooper Ain't No Mo' Peaches
Samuel L. Jackson August Wilson's The Piano Lesson Doaker Charles
Arian Moayed A Doll's House Torvald Helmer
David Zayas Cost of Living Eddie
2024
(77th)
Will Brill Stereophonic Reg
Eli Gelb Stereophonic Grover
Jim Parsons Mother Play Carl
Tom Pecinka Stereophonic Peter
Corey Stoll Appropriate Beauregard "Bo" Lafayette
2025
(78th)
Francis Jue Yellow Face HYH
Glenn Davis Purpose Solomon "Junior" Jasper
Gabriel Ebert John Proctor Is the Villain Mr. Carter Smith
Bob Odenkirk Glengarry Glen Ross Shelly Levene
Conrad Ricamora Oh, Mary! Mary's Husband

Statistics

Most wins

2 wins
  • Frank Langella

Most nominations

3 nominations
  • Robert Sean Leonard
  • Joseph Maher
  • Brian Murray
2 nominations
  • Tom Aldredge
  • Reed Birney
  • Philip Bosco
  • Larry Bryggman
  • Billy Crudup
  • John Glover
  • Michael Gough
  • David Alan Grier
  • George Grizzard
  • John Benjamin Hickey
  • Željko Ivanek
  • Nathan Lane
  • Frank Langella
  • Walter Matthau
  • Biff McGuire
  • Arian Moayed
  • Zakes Mokae
  • Brían F. O'Byrne
  • Edward Petherbridge
  • Roger Robinson
  • Tony Shalhoub
  • Brandon Uranowitz
  • Courtney B. Vance
  • Dick Anthony Williams

Character win total

2 wins
  • Phil Hogan from A Moon for the Misbegotten
  • Richard Roma from Glengarry Glen Ross
  • Mason Marzac from Take Me Out

Character nomination total

3 nominations
  • Shelley Levene from Glengarry Glen Ross
  • Biff Loman from Death of a Salesman
  • James Tyrone, Jr. from Long Day's Journey into Night
2 nominations
  • Homer Bolton from Morning's at Seven
  • Horace Giddens from The Little Foxes
  • Torvald Helmer from A Doll's House
  • Phil Hogan from A Moon for the Misbegotten
  • Chris Keller from All My Sons
  • Darren Lemming from Take Me Out
  • Larry from Burn This
  • Lenny from The Homecoming
  • Mason Marzac from Take Me Out
  • Richard Roma from Glengarry Glen Ross
  • Edmund Tyrone from Long Day's Journey into Night

Productions with multiple nominations

boldface=Winner

  • Big Fish, Little FishMartin Gabel and George Grizzard
  • The Subject Was RosesJack Albertson and Martin Sheen
  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead – Paul Hecht, Brian Murray, and John Wood
  • Vivat! Vivat Regina! – Douglas Rain and Lee Richardson
  • The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Edward Petherbridge and David Threlfall
  • Brighton Beach MemoirsMatthew Broderick and Željko Ivanek
  • Glengarry Glen RossJoe Mantegna and Robert Prosky
  • Loot – Charles Keating and Joseph Maher
  • The Grapes of Wrath – Terry Kinney and Gary Sinise
  • Two Trains RunningLaurence Fishburne and Roscoe Lee Browne
  • Angels in America: Millennium Approaches – Joe Mantello and Stephen Spinella
  • Angels in America: Perestroika – David Marshall Grant and Jeffrey Wright
  • Love! Valour! Compassion! – Stephen Bogardus, John Glover and Anthony Heald
  • Seven Guitars – Roger Robinson and Ruben Santiago-Hudson
  • The Beauty Queen of Leenane – Tom Murphy and Brían F. O'Byrne
  • Death of a Salesman – Kevin Anderson and Howard Witt
  • Dirty Blonde – Kevin Chamberlin and Bob Stillman
  • Proof – Larry Bryggman and Ben Shenkman
  • Morning's at Seven – William Biff McGuire and Stephen Tobolowsky
  • Long Day's Journey into Night – Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robert Sean Leonard
  • Take Me OutDenis O'Hare and Daniel Sunjata
  • Glengarry Glen Ross – Alan Alda, Gordon Clapp and Liev Schreiber
  • Awake and Sing! – Mark Ruffalo and Pablo Schreiber
  • The Coast of UtopiaBilly Crudup and Ethan Hawke
  • Radio Golf – Anthony Chisholm and John Earl Jelks
  • The Seafarer – Conleth Hill and Jim Norton
  • The Norman Conquests – Stephen Mangan and Paul Ritter
  • Golden Boy – Danny Burstein and Tony Shalhoub
  • Twelfth Night – Paul Chahidi, Stephen Fry and Mark Rylance
  • Lobby Hero – Michael Cera and Brian Tyree Henry
  • The Inheritance – John Benjamin Hickey and Paul Hilton
  • Slave Play – Ato Blankson-Wood and James Cusati-Moyer
  • Take Me OutJesse Tyler Ferguson, Michael Oberholtzer and Jesse Williams
  • StereophonicWill Brill, Eli Gelb and Tom Pecinka

Multiple awards and nominations

Actors who have been nominated multiple times in any acting categories
Awards Nominations Recipient
4 7 Frank Langella
5 Boyd Gaines
3 6 Nathan Lane
5 Mark Rylance
4 Kevin Kline
Zero Mostel
3 Hinton Battle
2 7 Christopher Plummer
6 John Lithgow
Michael Cerveris
5 Christian Borle
George Hearn
George Rose
John Cullum
Robert Morse
4 James Earl Jones
Norbert Leo Butz
Richard Kiley
3 Al Pacino
David Burns
David Wayne
Fredric March
Judd Hirsch
Matthew Broderick
Phil Silvers
Rex Harrison
Robert Preston
Stephen Spinella
Walter Matthau
2 Alan Bates
Brian Dennehy
Bryan Cranston
Harvey Fierstein
Hiram Sherman
James Naughton
Jonathan Pryce
José Ferrer
Russell Nype
Tommy Tune
1 8 Danny Burstein
Jason Robards
7 Brian Bedford
6 Philip Bosco
5 Brían F. O'Byrne
Hume Cronyn
Jim Dale
4 Billy Crudup
Brandon Uranowitz
Brian Stokes Mitchell
Cyril Ritchard
David Alan Grier
Gregory Hines
Jack Cassidy
Joel Grey
Jonathan Groff
Liev Schreiber
René Auberjonois
Tony Shalhoub
3 Alfred Drake
André De Shields
Barry Bostwick
Courtney B. Vance
David Hyde Pierce
Gary Beach
Gavin Creel
George Grizzard
Jefferson Mays
Jerry Orbach
John Wood
Larry Blyden
Len Cariou
Mandy Patinkin
Michael Rupert
Richard Burton
Robert Sean Leonard
Roger Bart
Scott Wise
2 Alfred Lunt
Andrew Garfield
Barnard Hughes
Ben Vereen
Ben Platt
Bert Lahr
Bertie Carvel
Bill Irwin
Brent Carver
Charles Nelson Reilly
Chuck Cooper
Cleavant Derricks
Cliff Gorman
Denzel Washington
Derek Jacobi
Eddie Redmayne
Edward Herrmann
Fritz Weaver
Gabriel Ebert
George S. Irving
Henry Fonda
Hugh Jackman
Ian McKellen
Jack Albertson
James Monroe Iglehart
Jeffrey Wright
John Benjamin Hickey
John Glover
Kevin Spacey
Laurence Fishburne
Leslie Odom Jr.
Martin Short
Michael Gough
Michael McGrath
Paul Rogers
Ralph Fiennes
Ray Bolger
Reed Birney
Roger Rees
Roger Robinson
Ron Holgate
Roy Dotrice
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Santino Fontana
Sean Hayes
Simon Russell Beale
Sydney Chaplin
Zakes Mokae
Nominations Recipient
5 Brian d'Arcy James
George C. Scott
John McMartin
Tom Aldredge
4 Donald Pleasence
Gregg Edelman
Raúl Esparza
Raul Julia
Victor Garber
3 Alan Alda
Alec McCowen
Alfred Molina
Andy Karl
Ben Gazzara
Brandon Victor Dixon
Brian Murray
Brooks Ashmanskas
Christopher Fitzgerald
Gilbert Price
Harry Groener
Jeff Daniels
Joseph Maher
Joshua Henry
Kevin Chamberlin
Marc Kudisch
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Ralph Richardson
Robin de Jesús
Terrence Mann
Tim Curry
Željko Ivanek
2 Adam Godley
Alan Rickman
Albert Finney
Alex Brightman
Andrew Rannells
Andy Griffith
Anthony Heald
Anthony Perkins
Arian Moayed
Biff McGuire
Bob Gunton
Bobby Cannavale
Brad Oscar
Bruce Adler
Charles Brown
Charles S. Dutton
Christopher Sieber
Christopher Walken
Clive Revill
Conleth Hill
Corey Hawkins
David Carroll
David Morse
David Pittu
David Threlfall
Dick Anthony Williams
Donald Moffat
Edward Petherbridge
Edward Winter
Gabriel Byrne
Gary Sinise
Gavin Lee
Herschel Bernardi
Howard McGillin
Jack Gilford
Jack Lemmon
Jeremy Jordan
Jeremy Pope
Joe Mantello
Joel Blum
John Gielgud
Jon Michael Hill
Josh Groban
Jude Law
K. Todd Freeman
Keith Carradine
Larry Bryggman
Larry Haines
Lewis J. Stadlen
Liam Neeson
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Maurice Evans
Maurice Hines
Michael Stuhlbarg
Milo O'Shea
Nicol Williamson
Patrick Wilson
Peter Frechette
Rob McClure
Robert Prosky
Robert Weede
Samuel Barnett
Samuel E. Wright
Savion Glover
Stark Sands
Stephen McKinley Henderson
Theodore Bikel
Tom Courtenay
Tom Sturridge
Tom Wopat
Tony Roberts
Wilfrid Hyde-White

Trivia

  • A supporting actor in each of Neil Simon's Eugene trilogy (Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues and Broadway Bound) has taken the Tony.
  • Featured actors in both parts of the original production and the 2018 revival of Tony Kushner's Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes series have won the award.
  • Matthew Broderick currently holds the record for the youngest person to ever receive this award, at 21 years old.
  • Roy Dotrice currently holds the record for the oldest person to ever receive this award, at 77 years old.

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