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Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play

Tony Awards · 332 nominations across 76 ceremonies · 76 wins

79th Tonys · 2026

Winner Alden Ehrenreich · Becky Shaw
Nominee Danny Burstein · Marjorie Prime
Nominee Richard Thomas · The Balusters
Nominee Ruben Santiago-Hudson · Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Nominee Brandon J. Dirden · Waiting for Godot
Nominee Christopher Abbott · Death of a Salesman

78th Tonys · 2025

Winner Francis Jue · Yellow Face
Nominee Glenn Davis · Purpose
Nominee Bob Odenkirk · Glengarry Glen Ross
Nominee Gabriel Ebert · John Proctor Is the Villain
Nominee Conrad Ricamora · Oh, Mary!

77th Tonys · 2024

76th Tonys · 2023

Winner Brandon Uranowitz · Leopoldstadt
Nominee Arian Moayed · A Doll's House
Nominee Jordan E. Cooper · Ain't No Mo'
Nominee Samuel L. Jackson · The Piano Lesson
Nominee David Zayas · Cost of Living

75th Tonys · 2022

Winner Jesse Tyler Ferguson · Take Me Out
Nominee Chuck Cooper · Trouble in Mind
Nominee Ron Cephas Jones · Clyde's
Nominee Take Me Out
Nominee Alfie Allen · Hangmen

74th Tonys · 2021

Winner David Alan Grier · A Soldier's Play
Nominee Slave Play
Nominee John Benjamin Hickey · The Inheritance
Nominee Paul Hilton · The Inheritance

73rd Tonys · 2019

Winner Bertie Carvel · Ink
Nominee Gideon Glick · To Kill a Mockingbird
Nominee Robin de Jesús · The Boys in the Band
Nominee Benjamin Walker · All My Sons
Nominee Brandon Uranowitz · Burn This

72nd Tonys · 2018

Winner Nathan Lane · Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
Nominee Michael Cera · Lobby Hero
Nominee Anthony Boyle · Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Nominee David Morse · The Iceman Cometh
Nominee Brian Tyree Henry · Lobby Hero

71st Tonys · 2017

Winner Michael Aronov · Oslo
Nominee Richard Thomas · The Little Foxes
Nominee Danny DeVito · The Price
Nominee John Douglas Thompson · Jitney
Nominee Nathan Lane · The Front Page

70th Tonys · 2016

Winner Reed Birney · The Humans
Nominee Michael Shannon · Long Day's Journey into Night
Nominee Bill Camp · The Crucible
Nominee David Furr · Noises Off
Nominee Bill Camp · The Crucible
Nominee Richard Goulding · King Charles III

69th Tonys · 2015

Winner Richard McCabe · The Audience
Nominee K. Todd Freeman
Nominee Alessandro Nivola · The Elephant Man
Nominee Matthew Beard · Skylight
Nominee Nathaniel Parker · Wolf Hall Parts One & Two
Nominee Micah Stock

68th Tonys · 2014

Winner Mark Rylance · Twelfth Night
Nominee Twelfth Night
Nominee Stephen Fry · Twelfth Night
Nominee Brian J. Smith · The Glass Menagerie
Nominee Reed Birney · Casa Valentina
Nominee Paul Chahidi

67th Tonys · 2013

Winner Courtney B. Vance · Lucky Guy
Nominee Richard Kind
Nominee Billy Magnussen · Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Nominee Tony Shalhoub · Golden Boy
Nominee Danny Burstein · Golden Boy

66th Tonys · 2012

Winner Christian Borle · Peter and the Starcatcher
Nominee Tom Edden
Nominee Andrew Garfield · Death of a Salesman
Nominee Jeremy Shamos · Clybourne Park
Nominee One Man, Two Guvnors
Nominee Michael Cumpsty

65th Tonys · 2011

Winner John Benjamin Hickey · The Normal Heart
Nominee Mackenzie Crook · Jerusalem
Nominee Billy Crudup · Arcadia
Nominee Yul Vazquez · The Motherfucker with the Hat
Nominee Arian Moayed

64th Tonys · 2010

Winner Eddie Redmayne · Red
Nominee David Alan Grier · Race
Nominee Jon Michael Hill
Nominee Stephen McKinley Henderson · Fences
Nominee Stephen Kunken · Enron

63rd Tonys · 2009

Winner Roger Robinson · Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Nominee Zach Grenier · 33 Variations
Nominee Paul Ritter · The Norman Conquests
Nominee Stephen Mangan · The Norman Conquests
Nominee John Glover · Waiting for Godot

62nd Tonys · 2008

61st Tonys · 2007

Winner Billy Crudup · The Coast of Utopia
Nominee Anthony Chisholm · Radio Golf
Nominee John Earl Jelks · Radio Golf
Nominee Ethan Hawke · The Coast of Utopia
Nominee Stark Sands · Journey's End

60th Tonys · 2006

Winner Ian McDiarmid · Faith Healer
Nominee Mark Ruffalo · Awake and Sing!
Nominee Domhnall Gleeson · The Lieutenant of Inishmore
Nominee Pablo Schreiber · Awake and Sing!
Nominee Samuel Barnett · The History Boys

59th Tonys · 2005

Winner Liev Schreiber · Glengarry Glen Ross
Nominee Gordon Clapp · Glengarry Glen Ross
Nominee David Harbour · Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Nominee Michael Stuhlbarg · The Pillowman
Nominee Alan Alda · Glengarry Glen Ross

58th Tonys · 2004

Winner Brían F. O'Byrne · Frozen
Nominee Omar Metwally
Nominee Ben Chaplin · The Retreat from Moscow
Nominee Tom Aldredge
Nominee Aidan Gillen · The Caretaker

57th Tonys · 2003

Winner Denis O'Hare · Take Me Out
Nominee Philip Seymour Hoffman · Long Day's Journey into Night
Nominee Daniel Sunjata · Take Me Out
Nominee Robert Sean Leonard · Long Day's Journey into Night
Nominee Thomas Jefferson Byrd · Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

56th Tonys · 2002

Winner Frank Langella · Fortune's Fool
Nominee Biff McGuire · Morning's at Seven
Nominee Brian Murray · The Crucible
Nominee Sam Robards
Nominee Stephen Tobolowsky · Morning's at Seven

55th Tonys · 2001

Winner Robert Sean Leonard · The Invention of Love
Nominee Larry Bryggman · Proof
Nominee Michael Hayden · Judgment at Nuremberg
Nominee Charles Brown · King Hedley II
Nominee Ben Shenkman · Proof

54th Tonys · 2000

Winner Roy Dotrice · A Moon for the Misbegotten
Nominee Kevin Chamberlin · Dirty Blonde
Nominee Bob Stillman · Dirty Blonde
Nominee Derek Smith
Nominee Daniel Davis

53rd Tonys · 1999

Winner Frank Wood · Side Man
Nominee Kevin Anderson · Death of a Salesman
Nominee Finbar Lynch · Not About Nightingales
Nominee Howard Witt · Death of a Salesman

52nd Tonys · 1998

Winner Tom Murphy · The Beauty Queen of Leenane
Nominee Max Wright
Nominee Brían F. O'Byrne · The Beauty Queen of Leenane
Nominee Sam Trammell · Ah, Wilderness!

51st Tonys · 1997

Winner Owen Teale · A Doll's House
Nominee Biff McGuire · The Young Man from Atlanta
Nominee The Last Night of Ballyhoo
Nominee Brian Murray · The Little Foxes
Nominee Terry Beaver

50th Tonys · 1996

Winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson · Seven Guitars
Nominee Reg Rogers
Nominee James Gammon · Buried Child
Nominee Roger Robinson · Seven Guitars

49th Tonys · 1995

Winner John Glover · Love! Valour! Compassion!
Nominee Anthony Heald · Love! Valour! Compassion!
Nominee Jude Law · Indiscretions
Nominee Stephen Bogardus · Love! Valour! Compassion!

48th Tonys · 1994

Winner Jeffrey Wright · Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
Nominee David Marshall Grant · Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
Nominee Gregory Itzin · The Kentucky Cycle
Nominee Larry Bryggman

47th Tonys · 1993

Winner Stephen Spinella · Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
Nominee Robert Sean Leonard
Nominee Joe Mantello · Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
Nominee Zakes Mokae · The Song of Jacob Zulu

46th Tonys · 1992

Winner Laurence Fishburne · Two Trains Running
Nominee Željko Ivanek · Two Shakespearean Actors
Nominee Roscoe Lee Browne · Two Trains Running
Nominee Tony Shalhoub

45th Tonys · 1991

Winner Kevin Spacey · Lost in Yonkers
Nominee Dylan Baker
Nominee Adam Arkin
Nominee Stephen Lang

44th Tonys · 1990

Winner Charles Durning · Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Nominee Gary Sinise · The Grapes of Wrath
Nominee Terry Kinney · The Grapes of Wrath
Nominee Rocky Carroll · The Piano Lesson

43rd Tonys · 1989

Winner Boyd Gaines · The Heidi Chronicles
Nominee Peter Frechette
Nominee Gordon Joseph Weiss
Nominee Ghetto
Nominee Eric Stoltz

42nd Tonys · 1988

Winner BD Wong · M. Butterfly
Nominee Lou Liberatore
Nominee Michael Gough
Nominee Delroy Lindo · Joe Turner's Come and Gone

41st Tonys · 1987

40th Tonys · 1986

Winner John Mahoney · The House of Blue Leaves
Nominee Joseph Maher
Nominee Peter Gallagher · Long Day's Journey into Night
Nominee Charles Keating

39th Tonys · 1985

Winner Barry Miller · Biloxi Blues
Nominee William Damaged · Hurlyburly
Nominee Charles S. Dutton · Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Nominee Edward Petherbridge

38th Tonys · 1984

Winner Joe Mantegna · Glengarry Glen Ross
Nominee Douglas Seale · Noises Off
Nominee Philip Bosco
Nominee Robert Prosky · Glengarry Glen Ross

37th Tonys · 1983

36th Tonys · 1982

Winner Zakes Mokae · "Master Harold"...and the Boys
Nominee Edward Petherbridge · The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Nominee The Hothouse
Nominee David Threlfall · The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Nominee Richard Kavanaugh

35th Tonys · 1981

Winner Brian Backer
Nominee A Life
Nominee Adam Redfield
Nominee Shepperd Strudwick
Nominee Tom Aldredge

34th Tonys · 1980

Winner David Rounds
Nominee Earle Hyman
Nominee Joseph Maher
Nominee George Hearn
Nominee David Dukes · Bent

33rd Tonys · 1979

32nd Tonys · 1978

31st Tonys · 1977

Winner Jonathan Pryce · Comedians
Nominee Laurence Luckinbill · The Shadow Box
Nominee Joe Fields
Nominee Bob Dishy
Nominee The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel

30th Tonys · 1976

29th Tonys · 1975

Winner Frank Langella · Seascape
Nominee George Rose
Nominee Larry Blyden
Nominee Leonard Frey · The National Health
Nominee Dick Anthony Williams
Nominee Philip Locke

28th Tonys · 1974

Winner Ed Flanders · A Moon for the Misbegotten
Nominee René Auberjonois · The Good Doctor
Nominee Dick Anthony Williams
Nominee Douglas Turner Ward · The River Niger

27th Tonys · 1973

Winner John Lithgow · The Changing Room
Nominee Hayward Morse · Butley
Nominee Barnard Hughes · Much Ado About Nothing
Nominee John McMartin

26th Tonys · 1972

Winner Vincent Gardenia · The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Nominee Joe Silver
Nominee Douglas Rain · Vivat! Vivat Regina!
Nominee Lee Richardson · Vivat! Vivat Regina!

25th Tonys · 1971

Winner Paul Sand · Paul Sills' Story Theatre
Nominee The Philanthropist
Nominee Donald Pickering
Nominee Ed Zimmermann
Nominee Ronald Radd

24th Tonys · 1970

Winner Ken Howard · Child's Play
Nominee Joseph Bova
Nominee Dennis King

23rd Tonys · 1969

Winner Al Pacino · Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?
Nominee Louis Zorich · Hadrian the Seventh
Nominee Richard S. Castellano · Lovers and Other Strangers
Nominee Tony Roberts

22nd Tonys · 1968

Winner James Patterson
Nominee Brian Murray · Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Nominee John Wood · Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Nominee Paul Hecht · Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

21st Tonys · 1967

20th Tonys · 1966

Winner Patrick Magee · Marat/Sade
Nominee Larry Haines
Nominee Burt Brinckerhoff
Nominee Eamon Kelly · Philadelphia, Here I Come!

19th Tonys · 1965

Winner Jack Albertson · The Subject Was Roses
Nominee Clarence Williams III
Nominee Martin Sheen · The Subject Was Roses
Nominee Murray Hamilton

18th Tonys · 1964

Winner Hume Cronyn · Hamlet
Nominee Larry Gates
Nominee Lee Allen
Nominee Michael Dunn · The Ballad of the Sad Café
Nominee Marathon '33

17th Tonys · 1963

Winner Alan Arkin
Nominee Paul Rogers
Nominee Barry Gordon · A Thousand Clowns
Nominee Frank Silvera

16th Tonys · 1962

Winner Walter Matthau
Nominee Joseph Campanella
Nominee Paul Sparer
Nominee Godfrey Cambridge
Nominee Orson Bean · Subways Are For Sleeping

15th Tonys · 1961

Winner Martin Gabel
Nominee Eduardo Ciannelli · The Devil's Advocate
Nominee George Grizzard
Nominee Philip Bosco

14th Tonys · 1960

Winner Roddy McDowall
Nominee Warren Beatty
Nominee Rip Torn
Nominee Lawrence Winters
Nominee Harry Guardino

13th Tonys · 1959

Winner Charles Ruggles · The Pleasure of His Company
Nominee Walter Matthau
Nominee Robert Morse
Nominee George C. Scott
Nominee George Grizzard · The Disenchanted
Nominee Marc Connelly · Tall Story

12th Tonys · 1958

Winner Henry Jones · Sunrise at Campobello
Nominee Theodore Bikel · The Rope Dancers
Nominee George Relph
Nominee Pat Hingle · The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Nominee Sig Arno · Time Remembered

11th Tonys · 1957

Winner Frank Conroy · The Potting Shed
Nominee Eddie Mayehoff · Visit to a Small Planet
Nominee Separate Tables
Nominee William Podmore
Nominee Jason Robards · Long Day's Journey into Night

10th Tonys · 1956

Winner Ed Begley
Nominee Anthony Quayle
Nominee Anthony Franciosa · A Hatful of Rain
Nominee Andy Griffith
Nominee Fritz Weaver · The Chalk Garden

9th Tonys · 1955

Winner Francis L. Sullivan

8th Tonys · 1954

Winner John Kerr

7th Tonys · 1953

Winner John Williams

6th Tonys · 1952

Winner John Cromwell

5th Tonys · 1951

Winner Eli Wallach

3rd Tonys · 1949

Winner Arthur Kennedy · Death of a Salesman