Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play

Winners and nominees

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Multiple wins

• Julie Harris

• Zoe Caldwell
• Jessica Tandy

• Shirley Booth
• Glenn Close
• Uta Hagen
• Helen Hayes
• Cherry Jones
• Margaret Leighton
• Irene Worth

  Multiple nominations

• Julie Harris

• Rosemary Harris

• Colleen Dewhurst

• Jane Alexander

• Stockard Channing
• Cherry Jones

• Eileen Atkins
• Glenda Jackson
• Linda Lavin
• Margaret Leighton
• Laura Linney
• Laurie Metcalf
• Estelle Parsons
• Maureen Stapleton
• Jessica Tandy
• Irene Worth

• Zoe Caldwell
• Helen Hayes
• Madeline Kahn
• Janet McTeer
• Helen Mirren
• Kate Nelligan
• Geraldine Page
• Mary-Louise Parker
• Lynn Redgrave
• Vanessa Redgrave
• Diana Rigg
• Maggie Smith

• Joan Allen
• Nina Arianda
• Elizabeth Ashley
• Jayne Atkinson
• Anne Bancroft
• Barbara Bel Geddes
• Eve Best
• Shirley Booth
• Kate Burton
• Glenn Close
• Gladys Cooper
• Blythe Danner
• Lindsay Duncan
• Jennifer Ehle
• Tovah Feldshuh
• Uta Hagen
• Swoosie Kurtz
• Frances McDormand
• Siobhán McKenna
• Claudia McNeil
• Amy Morton
• Cynthia Nixon
• Amanda Plummer
• Phylicia Rashad
• Mercedes Ruehl
• Marian Seldes
• Kim Stanley
• Kathleen Turner
• Liv Ullmann

  Multiple character wins

• Medea from Medea

• Amanda Prynne from Private Lives
• Annie from The Real Thing
• Joan of Arc from Joan of Lorraine and The Lark
• Mary Tyrone from Long Day's Journey Into Night
• Nora Helmer from A Doll's House and A Doll's House Part 2

  Multiple character nominations

• Josie Hogan from A Moon for the Misbegotten

• Medea from Medea
• Martha from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

• Amanda Prynne from Private Lives
• Beatrice from Much Ado About Nothing
• Claire Zachanassian from The Visit
• Joan of Arc from Joan of Lorraine, The Lark, and Saint Joan
• Lena Younger from A Raisin in the Sun
• Maggie Pollitt from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Mary Tyrone from Long Day's Journey into Night
• Nora Helmer from A Doll's House and A Doll's House, Part 2

• Amanda Wingfield from The Glass Menagerie
• Anna Christopherson from Anna Christie
• Annie from The Real Thing
• Blanche DuBois from A Streetcar Named Desire
• Claire from A Delicate Balance
• Eleanor of Aquitaine from The Lion in Winter
• Elizabeth I from Vivat! Vivat Regina! and Mary Stuart
• Elizabeth Proctor from The Crucible
• Emma from Betrayal
• Emma 'Billie' Dawn from Born Yesterday
• Fonsia Dorsey from The Gin Game
• Golda Meir from Golda and Golda's Balcony
• Heidi Holland from The Heidi Chronicles
• Hesione Hushabye from Heartbreak House
• Josephine from A Taste of Honey
• Julie Cavendish from The Royal Family
• Kyra Hollis from Skylight
• Lady Macbeth from Macbeth
• Lola Delaney from Come Back, Little Sheba
• Portia from The Merchant of Venice
• Princess Cosmonopolis from Sweet Bird of Youth
• Regina Giddens from The Little Foxes
• Ruth from The Homecoming
• Sarah Norman from Children of a Lesser God
• Sheila from A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

  Productions with multiple nominations

• 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
• ' -- Deanna Dunagan and Amy Morton
• God of Carnage -- Marcia Gay Harden and Hope Davis
• Mary Stuart'' -- Janet McTeer and Harriet Walter

  Multiple awards and nominations

Actress who have been nominated multiple times in any acting categories