Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play | |
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2022 Recipient: Simon Russell Beale | |
Awarded for | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play |
Location | New York City |
Presented by | American Theatre Wing The Broadway League |
Currently held by | Simon Russell Beale for The Lehman Trilogy (2022) |
Website | TonyAwards.com |
The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading 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 leading roles in a Broadway play. The awards are named after Antoinette Perry, an American actress who died in 1946. 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."[1] Despite the award first being presented in 1947, there were no nominees announced until 1956.
Year | Actor | Role | Play |
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1940s | |||
1947 (1st) |
Jose Ferrer | Cyrano De Bergerac | Cyrano de Bergerac |
Fredric March | Clinton Jones | Years Ago | |
1948 (2nd) |
Henry Fonda | Lt. Roberts | Mister Roberts |
Paul Kelly | Brigadier General K.C. Dennis | Command Decision | |
Basil Rathbone | Dr. Austin Sloper | The Heiress | |
1949 (3rd) |
Rex Harrison | Henry VIII | Anne of the Thousand Days |
Year | Actor | Role | Play | |
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2020s | ||||
2020 74th Tony Awards | ||||
Andrew Burnap | Toby Darling | The Inheritance | ||
Ian Barford | Wheeler | Linda Vista | ||
Jake Gyllenhaal | Abe | Sea Wall/A Life | ||
Tom Hiddleston | Robert | Betrayal | ||
Tom Sturridge | Alex | Sea Wall/A Life | ||
Blair Underwood | Captain Richard Davenport | A Soldier's Play | ||
2021 Ceremony not held |
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2022 75th Tony Awards | ||||
Simon Russell Beale | Henry Lehman | The Lehman Trilogy | ||
Adam Godley | Mayer Lehman | The Lehman Trilogy | ||
Adrian Lester | Emanuel Lehman | |||
David Morse | Uncle Peck | How I Learned to Drive | ||
Sam Rockwell | Teach | American Buffalo | ||
Ruben Santiago-Hudson | Various | Lackawanna Blues | ||
David Threlfall | Harry Wade | Hangmen |