Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play | |
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![]() 2023 Recipient: Sean Hayes, Good Night, Oscar | |
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 | Sean Hayes for Good Night, Oscar (2023) |
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 | Play | Role |
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1947 (1st) |
Jose Ferrer | Cyrano de Bergerac | Cyrano De Bergerac |
Fredric March | Years Ago | Clinton Jones | |
1948 (2nd) |
Henry Fonda | Mister Roberts | Lt. Roberts |
Paul Kelly | Command Decision | Brigadier General K.C. Dennis | |
Basil Rathbone | The Heiress | Dr. Austin Sloper | |
1949 (3rd) |
Rex Harrison | Anne of the Thousand Days | Henry VIII |
Year | Actor | Play | Role |
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2020 (74th) [66] | |||
Andrew Burnap | The Inheritance | Toby Darling | |
Ian Barford | Linda Vista | Wheeler | |
Jake Gyllenhaal | Sea Wall/A Life | Abe | |
Tom Hiddleston | Betrayal | Robert | |
Tom Sturridge | Sea Wall/A Life | Alex | |
Blair Underwood | A Soldier's Play | Captain Richard Davenport | |
2022 (75th) [67] | |||
Simon Russell Beale | The Lehman Trilogy | Henry Lehman | |
Adam Godley | The Lehman Trilogy | Mayer Lehman | |
Adrian Lester | Emanuel Lehman | ||
David Morse | How I Learned to Drive | Uncle Peck | |
Sam Rockwell | American Buffalo | Teach | |
Ruben Santiago-Hudson | Lackawanna Blues | Various Characters | |
David Threlfall | Hangmen | Harry Wade | |
2023 (76th) [68] | |||
Sean Hayes | Good Night, Oscar | Oscar Levant | |
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II | Topdog/Underdog | Booth | |
Corey Hawkins | Lincoln | ||
Stephen McKinley Henderson | Between Riverside and Crazy | Pops | |
Wendell Pierce | Death of a Salesman | Willy Loman |