Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
2023 Recipient: Jodie Comer
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
Location	New York City
Presented by	American Theatre Wing, The Broadway League
Currently held by	Jodie Comer for Prima Facie (2023)
Website	TonyAwards.com

The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress 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. The award is given to actresses for quality leading roles in a Broadway play.^[1] Despite the award first being presented in 1947, there were no nominees announced until 1956. There have been two ties in this category, and one three-way tie.

Winners and nominees

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Multiple wins

Multiple nominations

Multiple character wins

Multiple character nominations

Productions with multiple nominations

Winners are in bold.

• The Chalk Garden -- Gladys Cooper and Siobhán McKenna
• Toys In The Attic -- Maureen Stapleton and Irene Worth
• The Killing of Sister George -- Beryl Reid and Eileen Atkins
• 'night, Mother -- Kathy Bates and Anne Pitoniak
• A Streetcar Named Desire -- Blythe Danner and Frances McDormand
• The Sisters Rosensweig -- Madeline Kahn and Jane Alexander
• A Delicate Balance -- Rosemary Harris and Elaine Stritch
• August: Osage County -- Deanna Dunagan and Amy Morton
• God of Carnage -- Marcia Gay Harden and Hope Davis
• Mary Stuart -- Janet McTeer and Harriet Walter (God of Carnage and Mary Stuart were produced in the same year)

Multiple awards and nominations

Actress who have been nominated multiple times in any acting categories