Tony Winners for Best Actress in a Play

The Tony (Antoinette Perry) Awards are given by the American Theatre Wing for achievement in the Broadway theater.

• Glenn Close (born 1947)

  American actress.

  • Two-time Tony Award winner for Best Actress in a Play: 1984, for The Real Thing; 1992, for Death and the Maiden
• Lily Tomlin (born 1939)

  American comedienne and actress.

  • 1986 Tony Award winner for her performance in The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe
• Jessica Tandy (born 1909, died 1994)

  American actress.

  • Three-time Tony Award winner for Best Actress in a Play: 1948, for A Streetcar Named Desire; 1978, for The Gin Game; 1983, for Foxfire
• Shirley Booth (born 1907, died 1992)

  American actress.

  • 1950 Tony Award winner for her performance in Come Back, Little Sheba; 1953 winner for Time of the Cuckoo
• Constance Cummings (born 1910)

  American actress.

  • 1979 Tony Award winner for her performance in Wings
• Audrey Hepburn (born 1929, died 1993)

  Belgian-born American actress and activist for famine relief in Africa.

  • 1954 Tony Award winner for her performance in Ondine
• Nancy Kelly (born 1921, died 1995)

  American actress.

  • 1955 Tony Award winner for her performance in The Bad Seed
• Helen Hayes (born 1900, died 1993)

  American actress.

  • Two-time Tony Award winner for Best Actress in a Play: 1947, for Happy Birthday; 1958, for Time Remembered
• Anne Bancroft (born 1931)

  American actress. Original name: Anna Maria Italiano.

  • 1960 Tony Award winner for her performance in The Miracle Worker
• Maureen Stapleton (born 1925)

  American actress.

  • 1971 Tony Award winner for her performance in Gingerbread Lady
• Ingrid Bergman (born 1915, died 1982)

  Swedish actress.

  • 1947 Tony Award winner for her performance in Joan of Lorraine
• Madeline Kahn (born 1942, died 1999)

  American actress

  • 1992 Tony Award winner for her performance in The Sisters Rosensweig
• Julie Harris (born 1925)

  American actress.

  • Five-time Tony Award winner for Best Actress in a Play: 1952, for I Am a Camera; 1956, for The Lark; 1969, for Forty Carats; 1973, for The Last of Mrs. Lincoln; and 1977, for The Belle of Amherst
• Sandy Dennis (born 1937, died 1992)

  American actress.

  • 1964 Tony Award winner for her performance in Any Wednesday
• Maggie Smith (born 1934)

  English actress.

  • 1990 Tony Award winner for her performance in Lettuce and Lovage
• Ellen Burstyn (born 1932)

  American actress. Original name: Edna Gilhooley.

  • 1975 Tony Award winner for her performance in Same Time, Next Year
• Mercedes Ruehl (born 1948)

  American actress.

  • 1991 Tony Award winner for her performance in Lost in Yonkers
• Judith Anderson (born 1898, died 1992)

  Australian actress.

  • 1948 Tony Award winner for her performance in Medea
• Katharine Cornell (born 1893, died 1974)

  American actress.

  • 1948 Tony Award winner for her performance in Antony and Cleopatra
• Martita Hunt (born 1900, died 1969)

  English actress.

  • 1949 Tony Award winner for her performance in The Mad Woman of Chaillot
• Uta Hagen (born 1919)

  American actress.

  • Two-time Tony Award winner for Best Actress in a Play: 1951, for The Country Girl; 1963, for Who''s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• Margaret Leighton (born 1922, died 1976)

  English actress.

  • Two-time Tony Award winner for Best Actress in a Play: 1957, for Separate Tables; 1962, for Night of the Iguana
• Gertrude Berg (born 1899, died 1966)

  American actress.

  • 1959 Tony Award winner for her performance in A Majority of One
• Joan Plowright (born 1929)

  English actress.

  • 1961 Tony Award winner for her performance in A Taste of Honey
• Irene Worth (born 1916)

  American actress.

  • Two-time Tony Award winner for Best Actress in a Play: 1965, for Tiny Alice; 1976, for Sweet Bird of Youth
• Rosemary Harris (born 1930)

  English actress.

  • 1966 Tony Award winner for her performance in The Lion in Winter
• Beryl Reid (born 1920, died 1996)

  English actress.

  • 1967 Tony Award winner for her performance in The Killing of Sister George
• Zoe Caldwell (born 1933)

  Australian actress.

  • Three-time Tony Award winner for Best Actress in a Play: 1968, for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; 1982, for Medea; 1996 for Master Class
• Tammy Grimes (born 1934)

  American actress.

  • 1970 Tony Award winner for her performance in Private Lives
• Colleen Dewhurst (born 1926, died 1991)

  Canadian actress.

  • 1974 Tony Award winner for her performance in A Moon for the Misbegotten
• Phyllis Frelich (born 1944)

  American actress.

  • 1980 Tony Award winner for her performance in Children of a Lesser God
• Jane Lapotaire (born 1944)

  English actress.

  • 1981 Tony Award winner for her performance in Piaf
• Stockard Channing (born 1944)

  American actress. Original name: Susan Stockard.

  • 1985 Tony Award winner for her performance in Joe Egg
• Linda Lavin (born 1939)

  American actress and singer.

  • 1987 Tony Award winner for her performance in Broadway Bound
• Joan Allen (born 1956)

  American actress.

  • 1988 Tony Award winner for her performance in Burn This
• Pauline Collins (born 1940)

  English actress.

  • 1989 Tony Award winner for her performance in Shirley Valentine
• Janet McTeer
  • 1997 Tony Award winner for her performance in A Doll''s House
• Marie Mullen
  • 1998 Tony Award best actress winner for her performance in The Beauty Queen of Leenane
• Judi Dench
  • 1999 Tonny Award winner for her performance in Amy''s View.