Tony Awards: Best Lead Actress in a Play
Submitted by alsox4life on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 11:39
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- 1947- Ingrid Bergman- Joan of Lorraine/ Helen Hayes- Happy Birthday
- 1948- Judith Anderson- Medea/ Jessica Tandy- A Streetcar Named Desire
- 1949- Martita Hunt- The Madwoman of Chaillot
- 1950- Shirley Booth- Come Back, Little Sheba
- 1951- Uta Hagen- The Country Girl
- 1952- Julie Harris- I Am a Camera
- 1953- Shirley Booth- Time of the Cuckoo
- 1954- Audrey Hepburn- Ondine
- 1955- Nancy Kelly- The Bad Seed
- 1956- Julie Harris- The Lark
- 1957- Margaret Leighton- Separate Tables
- 1958- Helen Hayes- Time Remembered
- 1959- Gertrude Berg- A Majority of One
- 1960- Anne Bancroft- The Miracle Worker
- 1961- Joan Plowright- A Taste of Honey
- 1962- Margaret Leighton- The Night of the Iguana
- 1963- Uta Hagen- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- 1964- Sandy Dennis- Any Wednesday
- 1965- Irene Worth- Tiny Alice
- 1966- Rosemary Harris- The Lion in Winter
- 1967- Beryl Reid- The Killing of Sister George
- 1968- Zoe Caldwell- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- 1969- Julie Harris- Forty Carats
- 1970- Tammy Grimes- Private Lives
- 1971- Maureen Stapleton- The Gingerbread Lady
- 1972- Sada Thompson- Twigs
- 1973- Julie Harris- The Last of Mrs. Lincoln
- 1974- Colleen Dewhurst- A Moon for the Misbegotten
- 1975- Ellen Burstyn- Same Time, Next Year
- 1976- Irene Worth- Sweet Bird of Youth
- 1977- Julie Harris- The Belle of Amherst
- 1978- Jessica Tandy- The Gin Game
- 1979- Constance Cummings- Wings/ Carole Shelley- The Elephant Man
- 1980- Phyllis Frelich- Children of a Lesser God
- 1981- Jane Lapotaire- Piaf
- 1982- Zoe Caldwell- Medea
- 1983- Jessica Tandy- Foxfire
- 1984- Glenn Close- The Real Thing
- 1985- Stockard Channing- A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
- 1986- Lily Tomlin- The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
- 1987- Linda Lavin- Broadway Bound
- 1988- Joan Allen- Burn This
- 1989- Pauline Collins- Shirley Valentine
- 1990- Maggie Smith- Lettice and Lovage
- 1991- Mercedes Ruehl- Lost in Yonkers
- 1992- Glenn Close- Death and the Maiden
- 1993- Madeline Kahn- The Sisters Rosenweig
- 1994- Diana Rigg- Medea
- 1995- Cherry Jones- The Heiress
- 1996- Zoe Caldwell- Master Class
- 1997- Janet McTeer- A Doll's House
- 1998- Marie Mullen- The Beauty Queen of Leenane
- 1999- Judi Dench- Amy's View
- 2000- Jennifer Ehle- The Real Thing
- 2001- Mary-Louise Parker- Proof
- 2002- Lindsay Duncan- Private Lives
- 2003- Vanessa Redgrave- Long Day's Journey Into Night
- 2004- Phylicia Rashad- A Raisin in the Sun
- 2005- Cherry Jones- Doubt
- 2006- Cynthia Nixon- Rabbit Hole
- 2007- Julie White- The Little Dog Laughed
- 2008- Deanna Dunagan- August: Osage County
- 2009- Marcia Gay Harden- God of Carnage
