Who Won Lead Actor In A Play Tony Awards?
From Jose Ferrer ("Cyrano de Bergerac") in 1947 to Sean Hayes ("Good Night, Oscar") in 2023, the Tony Awards have awarded excellence in Broadway theater throughout the years. Multiple winners of the Leading Actor in a Play Tony have included Brian Dennehy, Judd Hirsch, and James Earl Jones.
| 2024 (77th) |
Jeremy Strong An Enemy Of The People Other Nominees: William Jackson Harper (Uncle Vanya); Leslie Odom Jr. (Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp through the Cotton Patch); Liev Schreiber (Doubt: A Parable); Michael Stuhlbarg (Patriots) |
| 2023 (76th) |
Sean Hayes Good Night, Oscar Other Nominees: Other Nominees: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Topdog/Underdog); Corey Hawkins (Topdog/Underdog); Stephen McKinley Henderson (Between Riverside and Crazy); Wendell Pierce (Death Of A Salesman) |
| 2022 (75th) |
Simon Russell Beale The Lehman Trilogy Other Nominees: Adam Godley (The Lehman Trilogy); Adrian Lester (The Lehman Trilogy); David Morse (How I Learned to Drive); Sam Rockwell (American Buffalo); Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Lackawanna Blues); David Threlfall (Hangmen) |
| 2021 (74th) |
Andrew Burnap The Inheritance Other Nominees: Ian Barford (Linda Vista); Jake Gyllenhaal (Sea Wall/A Life); Tom Hiddleston (Betrayal); Tom Sturridge (Sea Wall/A Life); Blair Underwood (A Soldier's Play) |
| 2019 (73rd) |
Bryan Cranston Network Other Nominees: Paddy Considine (The Ferryman); Jeff Daniels (To Kill a Mockingbird); Adam Driver (Burn This); Jeremy Pope (Choir Boy) |
| Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Andrew Garfield | (Angels In America) |  |
| 2017 | Kevin Kline | (Present Laughter) |  |
| 2016 | Frank Langella | (The Father) |  |
| 2015 | Alex Sharp | (The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time) |  |
| 2014 | Bryan Cranston | (All The Way) |  |
| 2013 | Tracy Letts | (Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?) |  |
| 2012 | James Corden | (One Man, Two Guvnors) |  |
| 2011 | Mark Rylance | (Jerusalem) |  |
| 2010 | Denzel Washington | (Fences) |  |
| 2009 | Geoffrey Rush | (Exit The King) |  |
| 2008 | Mark Rylance | (Boeing-Boeing) |  |
| 2007 | Frank Langella | (Frost/Nixon) |  |
| 2006 | Richard Griffiths | (The History Boys) |  |
| 2005 | Bill Irwin | (Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?) |  |
| 2004 | Jefferson Mays | (I Am My Own Wife) |  |
| 2003 | Brian Dennehy | (Long Day's Journey Into Night) |  |
| 2002 | Alan Bates | (Fortune's Fool) |  |
| 2001 | Richard Easton | (The Invention Of Love) |  |
| 2000 | Stephen Dillane | (The Real Thing) |  |
| 1999 | Brian Dennehy | (Death Of A Salesman) |  |
| 1998 | Anthony LaPaglia | (A View From The Bridge) |  |
| 1997 | Christopher Plummer | (Barrymore) |  |
| 1996 | George Grizzard | (A Delicate Balance) |  |
| 1995 | Ralph Fiennes | (Hamlet) |  |
| 1994 | Stephen Spinella | (Angels In America: Perestroika) |  |
| 1993 | Ron Leibman | (Angels In America: Millennium Approaches) |  |
| 1992 | Judd Hirsch | (Conversations With My Father) |  |
| 1991 | Nigel Hawthorne | (Shadowlands) |  |
| 1990 | Robert Morse | (Tru) |  |
| 1989 | Philip Bosco | (Lend Me A Tenor) |  |
| 1988 | Ron Silver | (Speed-The-Plow) |  |
| 1987 | James Earl Jones | (Fences) |  |
| 1986 | Judd Hirsch | (I'm Not Rappaport) |  |
| 1985 | Derek Jacobi | (Much Ado About Nothing) |  |
| 1984 | Jeremy Irons | (The Real Thing) |  |
| 1983 | Harvey Fierstein | (Torch Song Trilogy) |  |
| 1982 | Roger Rees | (The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby) |  |
| 1981 | Ian McKellen | (Amadeus) |  |
| 1980 | John Rubinstein | (Children Of A Lesser God) |  |
| 1979 | Tom Conti | (Whose Life Is It Anyway?) |  |
| 1978 | Barnard Hughes | (Da) |  |
| 1977 | Al Pacino | (The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel) |  |
| 1976 | John Wood | (Travesties) |  |
| 1975 | John Kani & Winston Ntshona | (Sizwe Banzi Is Dead / The Island) | |
| 1974 | Michael Moriarty | (Find Your Way Home) |  |
| 1973 | Alan Bates | (Butley) |  |
| 1972 | Cliff Gorman | (Lenny) |  |
| 1971 | Brian Bedford | (The School For Wives) |  |
| 1970 | Fritz Weaver | (Child's Play) |  |
| 1969 | James Earl Jones | (The Great White Hope) |  |
| 1968 | Martin Balsam | (You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running) |  |
| 1967 | Paul Rogers | (The Homecoming) |  |
| 1966 | Hal Holbrook | (Mark Twain Tonight) |  |
| 1965 | Walter Matthau | (The Odd Couple) |  |
| 1964 | Alec Guinness | (Dylan) |  |
| 1963 | Arthur Hill | (Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?) |  |
| 1962 | Paul Scofield | (A Man For All Seasons) |  |
| 1961 | Zero Mostel | (Rhinoceros) |  |
| 1960 | Melvyn Douglas | (The Best Man) |  |
| 1959 | Jason Robards | (The Disenchanted) |  |
| 1958 | Ralph Bellamy | (Sunrise At Campobello) |  |
| 1957 | Fredric March | (Long Day's Journey Into Night) |  |
| 1956 | Paul Muni | (Inherit The Wind) |  |
| 1955 | Alfred Lunt | (Quadrille) |  |
| 1954 | David Wayne | (The Teahouse Of The August Moon) |  |
| 1953 | Tom Ewell | (The Seven Year Itch) |  |
| 1952 | Jose Ferrer | (The Shrike) |  |
| 1951 | Claude Rains | (Darkness At Noon) |  |
| 1950 | Sidney Blackmer | (Come Back, Little Sheba) |  |
| 1949 | Rex Harrison | (Anne Of The Thousand Days) |  |
| 1948 | Henry Fonda, Paul Kelly, Basil Rathbone | (Mister Roberts, Command Decision, The Heiress) | |
| 1947 | Jose Ferrer & Fredric March | (Cyrano de Bergerac & Years Ago) |