# Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play

The Tony Award for Best Featured Actor 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, to actors for quality supporting roles in a Broadway play. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, to "honor the best performances and stage productions of the previous year."
The award was originally called the Tony Award for Actor, Supporting or Featured (Dramatic). It was first presented to Arthur Kennedy at the 3rd Tony Awards for his portrayal of Biff Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. Before 1956, nominees' names were not made public; the change was made by the awards committee to "have a greater impact on theatregoers".
Frank Langella holds the record for having the most wins in this category, with a total of two; he is the only person to win the award more than once. Richard Roma in Glengarry Glen Ross, Phil Hogan in A Moon for the Misbegotten, and Mason Marzac in Take Me Out are the only characters to take the award multiple times, all winning twice.

## Winners and nominees
### 1940s

| Year | Actor | Play | Role(s) | Ref. |
| 1949 (3rd) |
| 1949 (3rd) | Arthur Kennedy | Death of a Salesman | Biff Loman | |

### 1950s

| Year | Actor | Play | Role(s) | Ref. |
| 1950 (4th) | Not awarded | Not awarded | Not awarded | Not awarded |
| 1951 (5th) |
| 1951 (5th) | Eli Wallach | The Rose Tattoo | Alvaro Mangiacavallo | |
| 1952 (6th) |
| 1952 (6th) | John Cromwell | Point of No Return | John Gray | |
| 1953 (7th) |
| 1953 (7th) | John Williams | Dial M for Murder | Inspector Hubbard | |
| 1954 (8th) |
| 1954 (8th) | John Kerr | Tea and Sympathy | Tom Robinson Lee | |
| 1955 (9th) |
| 1955 (9th) | Francis L. Sullivan | Witness for the Prosecution | Sir Wilfrid Robats, Q.C. | |
| 1956 (10th) |
| 1956 (10th) | Ed Begley | Inherit the Wind | Matthew Harrison Brady | |
| 1956 (10th) | Anthony Franciosa | A Hatful of Rain | Polo Pope | |
| 1956 (10th) | Andy Griffith | No Time for Sergeants | Will Stockdale | |
| 1956 (10th) | Anthony Quayle | Tamburlaine the Great | Tamburlaine | |
| 1956 (10th) | Fritz Weaver | The Chalk Garden | Maitland | |
| 1957 (11th) | | | | |
| 1957 (11th) | Frank Conroy | The Potting Shed | Father William Callifer | |
| 1957 (11th) | Eddie Mayehoff | A Visit to a Small Planet | General Tom Powers | |
| 1957 (11th) | William Podmore | Separate Tables | Mr. Fowler | |
| 1957 (11th) | Jason Robards | Long Day's Journey into Night | James Tyrone Jr. | |
| 1958 (12th) | | | | |
| 1958 (12th) | Henry Jones | Sunrise at Campobello | Louis McHenry Howe | |
| 1958 (12th) | Sig Arno | Time Remembered | Ferdinand | |
| 1958 (12th) | Theodore Bikel | The Rope Dancers | Dr. Jacobson | |
| 1958 (12th) | Pat Hingle | The Dark at the Top of the Stairs | Rubin Flood | |
| 1958 (12th) | George Relph | The Entertainer | Billy Rice | |
| 1959 (13th) | | | | |
| 1959 (13th) | Charlie Ruggles | The Pleasure of His Company | Mackenzie Savage | |
| 1959 (13th) | Marc Connelly | Tall Story | Professor Charles Osman | |
| 1959 (13th) | George Grizzard | The Disenchanted | Shep Stearns | |
| 1959 (13th) | Walter Matthau | Once More, with Feeling! | Maxwell Archer | |
| 1959 (13th) | Robert Morse | Say, Darling | Ted Snow | |
| 1959 (13th) | George C. Scott | Comes a Day | Tydings Glenn | |

### 1960s

| Year | Actor | Play | Role(s) |
| 1960 (14th) |
| 1960 (14th) | Roddy McDowall | The Fighting Cock | Tarquin Edward Mendigales |
| 1960 (14th) | Warren Beatty | A Loss of Roses | Kenny |
| 1960 (14th) | Harry Guardino | One More River | Pompey |
| 1960 (14th) | Rip Torn | Sweet Bird of Youth | Tom Junior |
| 1960 (14th) | Lawrence Winters | The Long Dream | Tyree Tucker |
| 1961 (15th) | | | |
| 1961 (15th) | Martin Gabel | Big Fish, Little Fish | Basil Smythe |
| 1961 (15th) | Philip Bosco | The Rape of the Belt | Heracles |
| 1961 (15th) | Eduardo Ciannelli | The Devil's Advocate | Aurelio |
| 1961 (15th) | George Grizzard | Big Fish, Little Fish | Ronnie Johnson |
| 1962 (16th) | | | |
| 1962 (16th) | Walter Matthau | A Shot in the Dark | Benjamin Beaurevers |
| 1962 (16th) | Godfrey Cambridge | Purlie Victorious | Gitlow Judson |
| 1962 (16th) | Joseph Campanella | A Gift of Time | Daniel Stein |
| 1962 (16th) | Paul Sparer | Ross | Auda Abu Tayi |
| 1963 (17th) | | | |
| 1963 (17th) | Alan Arkin | Enter Laughing | David Kolowitz |
| 1963 (17th) | Barry Gordon | A Thousand Clowns | Nick Burns |
| 1963 (17th) | Paul Rogers | Photo Finish | Reginald Kinsale, Esq. |
| 1963 (17th) | Frank Silvera | The Lady of the Carnellias | M. Duval |
| 1964 (18th) | | | |
| 1964 (18th) | Hume Cronyn | Hamlet | Polonius |
| 1964 (18th) | Lee Allen | Marathon '33 | Patsy |
| 1964 (18th) | Michael Dunn | The Ballad of the Sad Café | Cousin Lyman |
| 1964 (18th) | Larry Gates | A Case of Libel | Boyd Bendix |
| 1965 (19th) | | | |
| 1965 (19th) | Jack Albertson | The Subject Was Roses | John Cleary |
| 1965 (19th) | Murray Hamilton | Absence of a Cello | Otis Clifton |
| 1965 (19th) | Martin Sheen | The Subject Was Roses | Timmy Cleary |
| 1965 (19th) | Clarence Williams III | Slow Dance on the Killing Ground | Randall |
| 1966 (20th) | | | |
| 1966 (20th) | Patrick Magee | Marat/Sade | Marquis de Sade |
| 1966 (20th) | Burt Brinckerhoff | Cactus Flower | Igor |
| 1966 (20th) | Larry Haines | Generation | Stan Herman |
| 1966 (20th) | Eamon Kelly | Philadelphia, Here I Come! | S. B. O'Donnell |
| 1967 (21st) | | | |
| 1967 (21st) | Ian Holm | The Homecoming | Lenny |
| 1967 (21st) | Clayton Corzatte | The School for Scandal | Charles Surface |
| 1967 (21st) | Stephen Elliott | Marat/Sade | Mr. Coulmier |
| 1967 (21st) | Sydney Walker | The Wild Duck | Lt. Ekdal |
| 1968 (22nd) | | | |
| 1968 (22nd) | James Patterson | The Birthday Party | Stanley |
| 1968 (22nd) | Paul Hecht | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead | The Player |
| 1968 (22nd) | Brian Murray | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead | Rosencrantz |
| 1968 (22nd) | John Wood | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead | Guildenstern |
| 1969 (23rd) | | | |
| 1969 (23rd) | Al Pacino | Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? | Bickham |
| 1969 (23rd) | Richard S. Castellano | Lovers and Other Strangers | Frank |
| 1969 (23rd) | Tony Roberts | Play It Again, Sam | Dick Christie |
| 1969 (23rd) | Louis Zorich | Hadrian VII | Cardinal Ragna |

### 1970s

| Year | Actor | Play | Role(s) |
| 1970 (24th) |
| 1970 (24th) | Ken Howard | Child's Play | Paul Reese |
| 1970 (24th) | Joseph Bova | The Chinese and Dr. Fish | Mr. Lee |
| 1970 (24th) | Dennis King | A Patriot for Me | Baron von Epp |
| 1971 (25th) | | | |
| 1971 (25th) | Paul Sand | Paul Sills' Story Theatre | Various Characters |
| 1971 (25th) | Ronald Radd | Abelard and Heloise | Gilies de Vannes |
| 1971 (25th) | Donald Pickering | Conduct Unbecoming | Capt. Rupert Harper |
| 1971 (25th) | Ed Zimmermann | The Philanthropist | Donald |
| 1972 (26th) | | | |
| 1972 (26th) | Vincent Gardenia | The Prisoner of Second Avenue | Harry Edison |
| 1972 (26th) | Douglas Rain | Vivat! Vivat Regina! | William Cecil |
| 1972 (26th) | Lee Richardson | Vivat! Vivat Regina! | Lord Bothwell |
| 1972 (26th) | Joe Silver | Lenny | Various Characters |
| 1973 (27th) | | | |
| 1973 (27th) | John Lithgow | The Changing Room | Kenny Kendal |
| 1973 (27th) | Barnard Hughes | Much Ado About Nothing | Dogberry |
| 1973 (27th) | John McMartin | Don Juan | Sganarelle |
| 1973 (27th) | Hayward Morse | Butley | Joseph Keyston |
| 1974 (28th) | | | |
| 1974 (28th) | Ed Flanders | A Moon for the Misbegotten | Phil Hogan |
| 1974 (28th) | René Auberjonois | The Good Doctor | Performer |
| 1974 (28th) | Douglas Turner Ward | The River Niger | Johnny Williams |
| 1974 (28th) | Dick Anthony Williams | What the Wine-Sellers Buy | Rico |
| 1975 (29th) | | | |
| 1975 (29th) | Frank Langella | Seascape | Leslie |
| 1975 (29th) | Larry Blyden | Absurd Person Singular | Sidney |
| 1975 (29th) | Leonard Frey | The National Health | Barnet |
| 1975 (29th) | Philip Locke | Sherlock Holmes | Professor Moriarty |
| 1975 (29th) | George Rose | My Fat Friend | Henry |
| 1975 (29th) | Dick Anthony Williams | Black Picture Show | Alexander |
| 1976 (30th) | | | |
| 1976 (30th) | Edward Herrmann | Mrs. Warren's Profession | Frank Gardner |
| 1976 (30th) | Barry Bostwick | They Knew What They Wanted | Joe |
| 1976 (30th) | Gabriel Dell | Lamppost Reunion | Fred Santora |
| 1976 (30th) | Daniel Seltzer | Knock Knock | Cohn |
| 1977 (31st) | | | |
| 1977 (31st) | Jonathan Pryce | Comedians | Gethin Price |
| 1977 (31st) | Bob Dishy | Sly Fox | Abner Truckle |
| 1977 (31st) | Joe Fields | The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel | First Sergeant Tower |
| 1977 (31st) | Laurence Luckinbill | The Shadow Box | Brian |
| 1978 (32nd) | | | |
| 1978 (32nd) | Lester Rawlins | Da | Drumm |
| 1978 (32nd) | Morgan Freeman | The Mighty Gents | Zeke |
| 1978 (32nd) | Victor Garber | Deathtrap | Clifford Anderson |
| 1978 (32nd) | Cliff Gorman | Chapter Two | Leo Schneider |
| 1979 (33rd) | | | |
| 1979 (33rd) | Michael Gough | Bedroom Farce | Ernest |
| 1979 (33rd) | Bob Balaban | The Inspector General | Óssip |
| 1979 (33rd) | Joseph Maher | Spokesong | The Trick Cyclist |
| 1979 (33rd) | Edward James Olmos | Zoot Suit | El Pachuco |

### 1980s

| Year | Actor | Play | Role(s) |
| 1980 (34th) |
| 1980 (34th) | David Rounds | Morning's at Seven | Homer Bolton |
| 1980 (34th) | David Dukes | Bent | Horst |
| 1980 (34th) | George Hearn | Watch on the Rhine | Kurt Muller |
| 1980 (34th) | Earle Hyman | The Lady from Dubuque | Oscar |
| 1980 (34th) | Joseph Maher | Night and Day | Geoffrey Carson |
| 1981 (35th) | | | |
| 1981 (35th) | Brian Backer | The Floating Light Bulb | Paul Pollack |
| 1981 (35th) | Tom Aldredge | The Little Foxes | Horace Giddens |
| 1981 (35th) | Adam Redfield | A Life | Desmond |
| 1981 (35th) | Shepperd Strudwick | To Grandmother's House We Go | Jared |
| 1982 (36th) | | | |
| 1982 (36th) | Zakes Mokae | Master Harold...and the Boys | Sam |
| 1982 (36th) | Richard Kavanaugh | The Hothouse | Gibbs |
| 1982 (36th) | Edward Petherbridge | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby | Newman Noggs |
| 1982 (36th) | David Threlfall | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby | Smike |
| 1983 (37th) | | | |
| 1983 (37th) | Matthew Broderick | Brighton Beach Memoirs | Eugene Jerome |
| 1983 (37th) | Željko Ivanek | Brighton Beach Memoirs | Stanley Jerome |
| 1983 (37th) | George N. Martin | Plenty | Leonard Darwin |
| 1983 (37th) | Stephen Moore | All's Well That Ends Well | Captain Parolles |
| 1984 (38th) | | | |
| 1984 (38th) | Joe Mantegna | Glengarry Glen Ross | Richard Roma |
| 1984 (38th) | Philip Bosco | Heartbreak House | Boss Mangan |
| 1984 (38th) | Robert Prosky | Glengarry Glen Ross | Shelly Levene |
| 1984 (38th) | Douglas Seale | Noises Off | Selsdon Mowbray |
| 1985 (39th) | | | |
| 1985 (39th) | Barry Miller | Biloxi Blues | Arnold Epstein |
| 1985 (39th) | Charles S. Dutton | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Levee |
| 1985 (39th) | William Hurt | Hurlyburly | Eddie |
| 1985 (39th) | Edward Petherbridge | Strange Interlude | Charles Marsden |
| 1986 (40th) | | | |
| 1986 (40th) | John Mahoney | The House of Blue Leaves | Artie Shaughnessy |
| 1986 (40th) | Peter Gallagher | Long Day's Journey into Night | Edmund Tyrone |
| 1986 (40th) | Charles Keating | Loot | McLeavy |
| 1986 (40th) | Joseph Maher | Loot | Truscott |
| 1987 (41st) | | | |
| 1987 (41st) | John Randolph | Broadway Bound | Ben |
| 1987 (41st) | Frankie R. Faison | Fences | Gabriel Maxson |
| 1987 (41st) | Jamey Sheridan | All My Sons | Chris Keller |
| 1987 (41st) | Courtney B. Vance | Fences | Cory Maxson |
| 1988 (42nd) | | | |
| 1988 (42nd) | BD Wong | M. Butterfly | Song Liling |
| 1988 (42nd) | Michael Gough | Breaking the Code | Dillwyn Knox |
| 1988 (42nd) | Lou Liberatore | Burn This | Larry |
| 1988 (42nd) | Delroy Lindo | Joe Turner's Come and Gone | Herald Loomis |
| 1989 (43rd) | | | |
| 1989 (43rd) | Boyd Gaines | The Heidi Chronicles | Peter Patrone |
| 1989 (43rd) | Peter Frechette | Eastern Standard | Drew |
| 1989 (43rd) | Eric Stoltz | Our Town | George Gibbs |
| 1989 (43rd) | Gordon Joseph Weiss | Ghetto | The Dummy |

### 1990s

| Year | Actor | Play | Role(s) |
| 1990 (44th) |
| 1990 (44th) | Charles Durning | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Big Daddy |
| 1990 (44th) | Rocky Carroll | The Piano Lesson | Lymon |
| 1990 (44th) | Terry Kinney | The Grapes of Wrath | Jim Casy |
| 1990 (44th) | Gary Sinise | The Grapes of Wrath | Tom Joad |
| 1991 (45th) | | | |
| 1991 (45th) | Kevin Spacey | Lost in Yonkers | Louie Kurnitz |
| 1991 (45th) | Adam Arkin | I Hate Hamlet | Gary Peter Lefkowitz |
| 1991 (45th) | Dylan Baker | La Bête | Prince County |
| 1991 (45th) | Stephen Lang | The Speed of Darkness | Lou |
| 1992 (46th) | | | |
| 1992 (46th) | Laurence Fishburne | Two Trains Running | Sterling |
| 1992 (46th) | Roscoe Lee Browne | Two Trains Running | Holloway |
| 1992 (46th) | Željko Ivanek | Two Shakespearean Actors | John Ryder |
| 1992 (46th) | Tony Shalhoub | Conversations with My Father | Charlie |
| 1993 (47th) | | | |
| 1993 (47th) | Stephen Spinella | Angels in America: Millennium Approaches | Prior Walter, et al. |
| 1993 (47th) | Robert Sean Leonard | Candida | Eugene Marchbanks |
| 1993 (47th) | Joe Mantello | Angels in America: Millennium Approaches | Louis Ironson |
| 1993 (47th) | Zakes Mokae | The Song of Jacob Zulu | Rev. Zulu/Mr. X, Itshe |
| 1994 (48th) | | | |
| 1994 (48th) | Jeffrey Wright | Angels in America: Perestroika | Norman "Belize" Arriaga, et al. |
| 1994 (48th) | Larry Bryggman | Picnic | Howard Bevans |
| 1994 (48th) | David Marshall Grant | Angels in America: Perestroika | Joe Pitt, et al. |
| 1994 (48th) | Gregory Itzin | The Kentucky Cycle | Various Characters |
| 1995 (49th) | | | |
| 1995 (49th) | John Glover | Love! Valour! Compassion! | John and James Jeckyll |
| 1995 (49th) | Stephen Bogardus | Love! Valour! Compassion! | Gregory Mitchell |
| 1995 (49th) | Anthony Heald | Love! Valour! Compassion! | Perry Sellars |
| 1995 (49th) | Jude Law | Indiscretions | Michael |
| 1996 (50th) | | | |
| 1996 (50th) | Ruben Santiago-Hudson | Seven Guitars | Canewell |
| 1996 (50th) | James Gammon | Buried Child | Dodge |
| 1996 (50th) | Roger Robinson | Seven Guitars | Hedley |
| 1996 (50th) | Reg Rogers | Holiday | Ned Seton |
| 1997 (51st) | | | |
| 1997 (51st) | Owen Teale | A Doll's House | Torvald Helmer |
| 1997 (51st) | Terry Beaver | The Last Night of Ballyhoo | Adolph |
| 1997 (51st) | Brian Murray | The Little Foxes | Oscar |
| 1997 (51st) | Biff McGuire | The Young Man from Atlanta | Pete Davenport |
| 1998 (52nd) | | | |
| 1998 (52nd) | Tom Murphy | The Beauty Queen of Leenane | Ray Dooley |
| 1998 (52nd) | Brían F. O'Byrne | The Beauty Queen of Leenane | Pato Dooley |
| 1998 (52nd) | Sam Trammell | Ah, Wilderness! | Richard Miller |
| 1998 (52nd) | Max Wright | Ivanov | Pavel Lebedev |
| 1999 (53rd) | | | |
| 1999 (53rd) | Frank Wood | Side Man | Gene |
| 1999 (53rd) | Kevin Anderson | Death of a Salesman | Biff Loman |
| 1999 (53rd) | Finbar Lynch | Not About Nightingales | Jim Allison |
| 1999 (53rd) | Howard Witt | Death of a Salesman | Charley |

### 2000s

| Year | Actor | Play | Role(s) |
| 2000 (54th) |
| 2000 (54th) | Roy Dotrice | A Moon for the Misbegotten | Phil Hogan |
| 2000 (54th) | Kevin Chamberlin | Dirty Blonde | Various Characters |
| 2000 (54th) | Daniel Davis | Wrong Mountain | Maurice Montesor |
| 2000 (54th) | Derek Smith | The Green Bird | Tartaglia |
| 2000 (54th) | Bob Stillman | Dirty Blonde | Various Characters |
| 2001 (55th) | | | |
| 2001 (55th) | Robert Sean Leonard | The Invention of Love | A. E. Housman, ages 18 to 26 |
| 2001 (55th) | Charles Brown | King Hedley II | Elmore |
| 2001 (55th) | Larry Bryggman | Proof | Robert |
| 2001 (55th) | Michael Hayden | Judgment at Nuremberg | Oscar Rolfe |
| 2001 (55th) | Ben Shenkman | Proof | Hal |
| 2002 (56th) | | | |
| 2002 (56th) | Frank Langella | Fortune's Fool | Flegont Alexandrovitch Tropatchov |
| 2002 (56th) | Brian Murray | The Crucible | Deputy-Governor Danforth |
| 2002 (56th) | William Biff McGuire | Morning's at Seven | Theodore Swanson |
| 2002 (56th) | Sam Robards | The Man Who Had All the Luck | Gustav Eberson |
| 2002 (56th) | Stephen Tobolowsky | Morning's at Seven | Homer Bolton |
| 2003 (57th) | | | |
| 2003 (57th) | Denis O'Hare | Take Me Out | Mason Marzac |
| 2003 (57th) | Thomas Jefferson Byrd | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Toledo |
| 2003 (57th) | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Long Day's Journey into Night | James Tyrone Jr. |
| 2003 (57th) | Robert Sean Leonard | Long Day's Journey into Night | Edmund Tyrone |
| 2003 (57th) | Daniel Sunjata | Take Me Out | Darren Lemming |
| 2004 (58th) | | | |
| 2004 (58th) | Brían F. O'Byrne | Frozen | Ralph |
| 2004 (58th) | Tom Aldredge | Twentieth Century | Matthew Clark |
| 2004 (58th) | Ben Chaplin | The Retreat from Moscow | Jamie |
| 2004 (58th) | Aidan Gillen | The Caretaker | Mick |
| 2004 (58th) | Omar Metwally | Sixteen Wounded | Mahmoud |
| 2005 (59th) | | | |
| 2005 (59th) | Liev Schreiber | Glengarry Glen Ross | Richard Roma |
| 2005 (59th) | Alan Alda | Glengarry Glen Ross | Shelly Levene |
| 2005 (59th) | Gordon Clapp | Glengarry Glen Ross | Moss |
| 2005 (59th) | David Harbour | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Nick |
| 2005 (59th) | Michael Stuhlbarg | The Pillowman | Michael |
| 2006 (60th) | | | |
| 2006 (60th) | Ian McDiarmid | Faith Healer | Teddy |
| 2006 (60th) | Samuel Barnett | The History Boys | Posner |
| 2006 (60th) | Domhnall Gleeson | The Lieutenant of Inishmore | Davey |
| 2006 (60th) | Mark Ruffalo | Awake and Sing! | Moe Axelrod |
| 2006 (60th) | Pablo Schreiber | Awake and Sing! | Ralph Berger |
| 2007 (61st) | | | |
| 2007 (61st) | Billy Crudup | The Coast of Utopia | Vissarion Belinsky |
| 2007 (61st) | Anthony Chisholm | Radio Golf | Elder Joseph Barlow |
| 2007 (61st) | Ethan Hawke | The Coast of Utopia | Michael Bakunin |
| 2007 (61st) | John Earl Jelks | Radio Golf | Sterling Johnson |
| 2007 (61st) | Stark Sands | Journey's End | Lieut. Raleigh |
| 2008 (62nd) | | | |
| 2008 (62nd) | Jim Norton | The Seafarer | Richard Harkin |
| 2008 (62nd) | Bobby Cannavale | Mauritius | Dennis |
| 2008 (62nd) | Raúl Esparza | The Homecoming | Lenny |
| 2008 (62nd) | Conleth Hill | The Seafarer | Ivan Curry |
| 2008 (62nd) | David Pittu | Is He Dead? | Various Characters |
| 2009 (63rd) | | | |
| 2009 (63rd) | Roger Robinson | Joe Turner's Come and Gone | Bynum Walker |
| 2009 (63rd) | John Glover | Waiting for Godot | Lucky |
| 2009 (63rd) | Zach Grenier | 33 Variations | Beethoven |
| 2009 (63rd) | Stephen Mangan | The Norman Conquests | Norman |
| 2009 (63rd) | Paul Ritter | The Norman Conquests | Reg |

### 2010s

| Year | Actor | Play | Role(s) |
| 2010 (64th) |
| 2010 (64th) | Eddie Redmayne | Red | Ken |
| 2010 (64th) | David Alan Grier | Race | Henry Brown |
| 2010 (64th) | Stephen Henderson | Fences | Jim Bono |
| 2010 (64th) | Jon Michael Hill | Superior Donuts | Franco |
| 2010 (64th) | Stephen Kunken | Enron | Andy Fastow |
| 2011 (65th) | | | |
| 2011 (65th) | John Benjamin Hickey | The Normal Heart | Felix Turner |
| 2011 (65th) | Mackenzie Crook | Jerusalem | Ginger |
| 2011 (65th) | Billy Crudup | Arcadia | Bernard Nightingale |
| 2011 (65th) | Arian Moayed | Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo | Musa |
| 2011 (65th) | Yul Vázquez | The Motherfucker with the Hat | Cousin Julio |
| 2012 (66th) | | | |
| 2012 (66th) | Christian Borle | Peter and the Starcatcher | Black Stache |
| 2012 (66th) | Michael Cumpsty | End of the Rainbow | Anthony |
| 2012 (66th) | Tom Edden | One Man, Two Guvnors | Alfie |
| 2012 (66th) | Andrew Garfield | Death of a Salesman | Biff Loman |
| 2012 (66th) | Jeremy Shamos | Clybourne Park | Karl/Steve |
| 2013 (67th) | | | |
| 2013 (67th) | Courtney B. Vance | Lucky Guy | Hap Hairston |
| 2013 (67th) | Danny Burstein | Golden Boy | Tokio |
| 2013 (67th) | Richard Kind | The Big Knife | Marcus Hoff |
| 2013 (67th) | Billy Magnussen | Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike | Spike |
| 2013 (67th) | Tony Shalhoub | Golden Boy | Mr. Bonaparte |
| 2014 (68th) | | | |
| 2014 (68th) | Mark Rylance | Twelfth Night | Countess Olivia |
| 2014 (68th) | Reed Birney | Casa Valentina | Charlotte |
| 2014 (68th) | Paul Chahidi | Twelfth Night | Maria |
| 2014 (68th) | Stephen Fry | Twelfth Night | Malvolio |
| 2014 (68th) | Brian J. Smith | The Glass Menagerie | Jim O'Connor |
| 2015 (69th) | | | |
| 2015 (69th) | Richard McCabe | The Audience | Harold Wilson |
| 2015 (69th) | Matthew Beard | Skylight | Edward Sergeant |
| 2015 (69th) | K. Todd Freeman | Airline Highway | Sissy Na Na |
| 2015 (69th) | Alessandro Nivola | The Elephant Man | Frederick Treves |
| 2015 (69th) | Nathaniel Parker | Wolf Hall Parts One & Two | Henry VIII |
| 2015 (69th) | Micah Stock | It's Only a Play | Gus P. Head |
| 2016 (70th) | | | |
| 2016 (70th) | Reed Birney | The Humans | Erik Blake |
| 2016 (70th) | Bill Camp | The Crucible | Reverend John Hale |
| 2016 (70th) | David Furr | Noises Off | Gary Lejeune |
| 2016 (70th) | Richard Goulding | King Charles III | Prince Harry |
| 2016 (70th) | Michael Shannon | Long Day's Journey into Night | James Tyrone Jr. |
| 2017 (71st) | | | |
| 2017 (71st) | Michael Aronov | Oslo | Uri Savir |
| 2017 (71st) | Danny DeVito | The Price | Gregory Solomon |
| 2017 (71st) | Nathan Lane | The Front Page | Walter Burns |
| 2017 (71st) | Richard Thomas | The Little Foxes | Horace Giddens |
| 2017 (71st) | John Douglas Thompson | Jitney | Jim Becker |
| 2018 (72nd) | | | |
| 2018 (72nd) | Nathan Lane | Angels in America | Roy Cohn, et al. |
| 2018 (72nd) | Anthony Boyle | Harry Potter and the Cursed Child | Scorpius Malfoy |
| 2018 (72nd) | Michael Cera | Lobby Hero | Jeff |
| 2018 (72nd) | Brian Tyree Henry | Lobby Hero | William |
| 2018 (72nd) | David Morse | The Iceman Cometh | Larry Slade |
| 2019 (73rd) | | | |
| 2019 (73rd) | Bertie Carvel | Ink | Rupert Murdoch |
| 2019 (73rd) | Robin de Jesús | The Boys in the Band | Emory |
| 2019 (73rd) | Gideon Glick | To Kill a Mockingbird | Dill Harris |
| 2019 (73rd) | Brandon Uranowitz | Burn This | Larry |
| 2019 (73rd) | Benjamin Walker | All My Sons | Chris Keller |

### 2020s

| Year | Actor | Play | Role(s) | Ref. |
| 2020 (74th) |
| 2020 (74th) | David Alan Grier | A Soldier's Play | Sergeant Vernon C. Waters | |
| 2020 (74th) | Ato Blankson-Wood | Slave Play | Gary | |
| 2020 (74th) | James Cusati-Moyer | Slave Play | Dustin | |
| 2020 (74th) | John Benjamin Hickey | The Inheritance | Henry Wilcox | |
| 2020 (74th) | Paul Hilton | The Inheritance | Walter Poole/Morgan | |
| 2021 | No ceremony | No ceremony | No ceremony | No ceremony |
| 2022 (75th) |
| 2022 (75th) | Jesse Tyler Ferguson | Take Me Out | Mason Marzac | |
| 2022 (75th) | Alfie Allen | Hangmen | Mooney | |
| 2022 (75th) | Chuck Cooper | Trouble in Mind | Sheldon Forrester | |
| 2022 (75th) | Ron Cephas Jones | Clyde's | Montrellous | |
| 2022 (75th) | Michael Oberholtzer | Take Me Out | Shane Mungitt | |
| 2022 (75th) | Jesse Williams | Take Me Out | Darren Lemming | |
| 2023 (76th) | | | | |
| 2023 (76th) | Brandon Uranowitz | Leopoldstadt | Ludwig Jakobovicz / Nathan Fischbein | |
| 2023 (76th) | Jordan E. Cooper | Ain't No Mo' | Peaches | |
| 2023 (76th) | Samuel L. Jackson | August Wilson's The Piano Lesson | Doaker Charles | |
| 2023 (76th) | Arian Moayed | A Doll's House | Torvald Helmer | |
| 2023 (76th) | David Zayas | Cost of Living | Eddie | |
| 2024 (77th) |
| 2024 (77th) | Will Brill | Stereophonic | Reg | |
| 2024 (77th) | Eli Gelb | Stereophonic | Grover | |
| 2024 (77th) | Jim Parsons | Mother Play | Carl | |
| 2024 (77th) | Tom Pecinka | Stereophonic | Peter | |
| 2024 (77th) | Corey Stoll | Appropriate | Beauregard "Bo" Lafayette | |

## Statistics
### Most wins
#### 2 wins

* Frank Langella

### Most nominations
#### 3 nominations

* Robert Sean Leonard
* Joseph Maher
* Brian Murray

#### 2 nominations

* Tom Aldredge
* Reed Birney
* Philip Bosco
* Larry Bryggman
* Billy Crudup
* John Glover
* Michael Gough
* David Alan Grier
* George Grizzard
* John Benjamin Hickey
* Željko Ivanek
* Nathan Lane
* Frank Langella
* Walter Matthau
* Biff McGuire
* Arian Moayed
* Zakes Mokae
* Brían F. O'Byrne
* Edward Petherbridge
* Roger Robinson
* Tony Shalhoub
* Brandon Uranowitz
* Courtney B. Vance
* Dick Anthony Williams

### Character win total
#### 2 wins

* Phil Hogan from A Moon for the Misbegotten
* Richard Roma from Glengarry Glen Ross
* Mason Marzac from Take Me Out

### Character nomination total
#### 3 nominations

* Biff Loman from Death of a Salesman
* James Tyrone, Jr. from Long Day's Journey into Night

#### 2 nominations

* Homer Bolton from Morning's at Seven
* Horace Giddens from The Little Foxes
* Torvald Helmer from A Doll's House
* Phil Hogan from A Moon for the Misbegotten
* Chris Keller from All My Sons
* Darren Lemming from Take Me Out
* Larry from Burn This
* Lenny from The Homecoming
* Shelley Levene from Glengarry Glen Ross
* Mason Marzac from Take Me Out
* Richard Roma from Glengarry Glen Ross
* Edmund Tyrone from Long Day's Journey into Night

### Productions with multiple nominations

boldface=Winner
* Big Fish, Little Fish – Martin Gabel and George Grizzard
* The Subject Was Roses – Jack Albertson and Martin Sheen
* Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead – Paul Hecht, Brian Murray, and John Wood
* Vivat! Vivat Regina! – Douglas Rain and Lee Richardson
* The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Edward Petherbridge and David Threlfall
* Brighton Beach Memoirs – Matthew Broderick and Željko Ivanek
* Glengarry Glen Ross – Joe Mantegna and Robert Prosky
* Loot – Charles Keating and Joseph Maher
* The Grapes of Wrath – Terry Kinney and Gary Sinise
* Two Trains Running – Laurence Fishburne and Roscoe Lee Browne
* Angels in America: Millennium Approaches – Joe Mantello and Stephen Spinella
* Angels in America: Perestroika – David Marshall Grant and Jeffrey Wright
* Love! Valour! Compassion! – Stephen Bogardus, John Glover and Anthony Heald
* Seven Guitars – Roger Robinson and Ruben Santiago-Hudson
* The Beauty Queen of Leenane – Tom Murphy and Brían F. O'Byrne
* Death of a Salesman – Kevin Anderson and Howard Witt
* Dirty Blonde – Kevin Chamberlin and Bob Stillman
* Proof – Larry Bryggman and Ben Shenkman
* Morning's at Seven – William Biff McGuire and Stephen Tobolowsky
* Long Day's Journey into Night – Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robert Sean Leonard
* Take Me Out – Denis O'Hare and Daniel Sunjata
* Glengarry Glen Ross – Alan Alda, Gordon Clapp and Liev Schreiber
* Awake and Sing! – Mark Ruffalo and Pablo Schreiber
* The Coast of Utopia – Billy Crudup and Ethan Hawke
* Radio Golf – Anthony Chisholm and John Earl Jelks
* The Seafarer – Conleth Hill and Jim Norton
* The Norman Conquests – Stephen Mangan and Paul Ritter
* Golden Boy – Danny Burstein and Tony Shalhoub
* Twelfth Night – Paul Chahidi, Stephen Fry and Mark Rylance
* Lobby Hero – Michael Cera and Brian Tyree Henry
* The Inheritance – John Benjamin Hickey and Paul Hilton
* Slave Play – Ato Blankson-Wood and James Cusati-Moyer
* Take Me Out – Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Michael Oberholtzer and Jesse Williams
* Stereophonic – Will Brill, Eli Gelb and Tom Pecinka

### Multiple awards and nominations
#### Actors who have been nominated multiple times in any acting categories

| Awards | Nominations | Recipient |
| 4 | 7 | Frank Langella |
| 4 | 5 | Boyd Gaines |
| 3 | 6 | Nathan Lane |
| 3 | 5 | Mark Rylance |
| 3 | 4 | Kevin Kline |
| 3 | 4 | Zero Mostel |
| 3 | 3 | Hinton Battle |
| 2 | 7 | Christopher Plummer |
| 2 | 6 | John Lithgow |
| 2 | 6 | Michael Cerveris |
| 2 | 5 | Christian Borle |
| 2 | 5 | George Hearn |
| 2 | 5 | George Rose |
| 2 | 5 | John Cullum |
| 2 | 5 | Robert Morse |
| 2 | 4 | James Earl Jones |
| 2 | 4 | Norbert Leo Butz |
| 2 | 4 | Richard Kiley |
| 2 | 3 | Al Pacino |
| 2 | 3 | David Burns |
| 2 | 3 | David Wayne |
| 2 | 3 | Fredric March |
| 2 | 3 | Judd Hirsch |
| 2 | 3 | Matthew Broderick |
| 2 | 3 | Phil Silvers |
| 2 | 3 | Rex Harrison |
| 2 | 3 | Robert Preston |
| 2 | 3 | Stephen Spinella |
| 2 | 3 | Walter Matthau |
| 2 | 2 | Alan Bates |
| 2 | 2 | Brian Dennehy |
| 2 | 2 | Bryan Cranston |
| 2 | 2 | Harvey Fierstein |
| 2 | 2 | Hiram Sherman |
| 2 | 2 | James Naughton |
| 2 | 2 | Jonathan Pryce |
| 2 | 2 | José Ferrer |
| 2 | 2 | Russell Nype |
| 2 | 2 | Tommy Tune |
| 1 | 8 | Jason Robards |
| 1 | 7 | Brian Bedford |
| 1 | 7 | Danny Burstein |
| 1 | 6 | Philip Bosco |
| 1 | 5 | Brían F. O'Byrne |
| 1 | 5 | Hume Cronyn |
| 1 | 5 | Jim Dale |
| 1 | 4 | Billy Crudup |
| 1 | 4 | Brandon Uranowitz |
| 1 | 4 | Brian Stokes Mitchell |
| 1 | 4 | Cyril Ritchard |
| 1 | 4 | David Alan Grier |
| 1 | 4 | Gregory Hines |
| 1 | 4 | Jack Cassidy |
| 1 | 4 | Joel Grey |
| 1 | 4 | Liev Schreiber |
| 1 | 4 | René Auberjonois |
| 1 | 4 | Tony Shalhoub |
| 1 | 3 | Alfred Drake |
| 1 | 3 | André De Shields |
| 1 | 3 | Barry Bostwick |
| 1 | 3 | Courtney B. Vance |
| 1 | 3 | David Hyde Pierce |
| 1 | 3 | Gary Beach |
| 1 | 3 | Gavin Creel |
| 1 | 3 | George Grizzard |
| 1 | 3 | Jefferson Mays |
| 1 | 3 | Jerry Orbach |
| 1 | 3 | John Wood |
| 1 | 3 | Larry Blyden |
| 1 | 3 | Len Cariou |
| 1 | 3 | Mandy Patinkin |
| 1 | 3 | Michael Rupert |
| 1 | 3 | Richard Burton |
| 1 | 3 | Robert Sean Leonard |
| 1 | 3 | Roger Bart |
| 1 | 3 | Scott Wise |
| 1 | 2 | Alfred Lunt |
| 1 | 2 | Andrew Garfield |
| 1 | 2 | Barnard Hughes |
| 1 | 2 | Ben Vereen |
| 1 | 2 | Ben Platt |
| 1 | 2 | Bert Lahr |
| 1 | 2 | Bertie Carvel |
| 1 | 2 | Bill Irwin |
| 1 | 2 | Brent Carver |
| 1 | 2 | Charles Nelson Reilly |
| 1 | 2 | Chuck Cooper |
| 1 | 2 | Cleavant Derricks |
| 1 | 2 | Cliff Gorman |
| 1 | 2 | Denzel Washington |
| 1 | 2 | Derek Jacobi |
| 1 | 2 | Eddie Redmayne |
| 1 | 2 | Edward Herrmann |
| 1 | 2 | Fritz Weaver |
| 1 | 2 | George S. Irving |
| 1 | 2 | Henry Fonda |
| 1 | 2 | Hugh Jackman |
| 1 | 2 | Ian McKellen |
| 1 | 2 | Jack Albertson |
| 1 | 2 | Jeffrey Wright |
| 1 | 2 | John Benjamin Hickey |
| 1 | 2 | John Glover |
| 1 | 2 | Kevin Spacey |
| 1 | 2 | Laurence Fishburne |
| 1 | 2 | Leslie Odom Jr. |
| 1 | 2 | Martin Short |
| 1 | 2 | Michael Gough |
| 1 | 2 | Michael McGrath |
| 1 | 2 | Paul Rogers |
| 1 | 2 | Ralph Fiennes |
| 1 | 2 | Ray Bolger |
| 1 | 2 | Reed Birney |
| 1 | 2 | Roger Rees |
| 1 | 2 | Roger Robinson |
| 1 | 2 | Ron Holgate |
| 1 | 2 | Roy Dotrice |
| 1 | 2 | Ruben Santiago-Hudson |
| 1 | 2 | Santino Fontana |
| 1 | 2 | Sean Hayes |
| 1 | 2 | Simon Russell Beale |
| 1 | 2 | Sydney Chaplin |
| 1 | 2 | Zakes Mokae |
| Nominations | Recipient |
| 5 | Brian d'Arcy James |
| 5 | George C. Scott |
| 5 | John McMartin |
| 5 | Tom Aldredge |
| 4 | Donald Pleasence |
| 4 | Gregg Edelman |
| 4 | Raúl Esparza |
| 4 | Raul Julia |
| 4 | Victor Garber |
| 3 | Alan Alda |
| 3 | Alec McCowen |
| 3 | Alfred Molina |
| 3 | Andy Karl |
| 3 | Ben Gazzara |
| 3 | Brandon Victor Dixon |
| 3 | Brian Murray |
| 3 | Christopher Fitzgerald |
| 3 | Gilbert Price |
| 3 | Harry Groener |
| 3 | Jeff Daniels |
| 3 | Jonathan Groff |
| 3 | Joseph Maher |
| 3 | Joshua Henry |
| 3 | Kevin Chamberlin |
| 3 | Marc Kudisch |
| 3 | Philip Seymour Hoffman |
| 3 | Ralph Richardson |
| 3 | Robin de Jesús |
| 3 | Terrence Mann |
| 3 | Tim Curry |
| 3 | Željko Ivanek |
| 2 | Adam Godley |
| 2 | Alan Rickman |
| 2 | Albert Finney |
| 2 | Alex Brightman |
| 2 | Andrew Rannells |
| 2 | Andy Griffith |
| 2 | Anthony Heald |
| 2 | Anthony Perkins |
| 2 | Arian Moayed |
| 2 | Biff McGuire |
| 2 | Bob Gunton |
| 2 | Bobby Cannavale |
| 2 | Brad Oscar |
| 2 | Brooks Ashmanskas |
| 2 | Bruce Adler |
| 2 | Charles Brown |
| 2 | Charles S. Dutton |
| 2 | Christopher Sieber |
| 2 | Christopher Walken |
| 2 | Clive Revill |
| 2 | Conleth Hill |
| 2 | Corey Hawkins |
| 2 | David Carroll |
| 2 | David Morse |
| 2 | David Pittu |
| 2 | David Threlfall |
| 2 | Dick Anthony Williams |
| 2 | Donald Moffat |
| 2 | Edward Petherbridge |
| 2 | Edward Winter |
| 2 | Gabriel Byrne |
| 2 | Gary Sinise |
| 2 | Gavin Lee |
| 2 | Herschel Bernardi |
| 2 | Howard McGillin |
| 2 | Jack Gilford |
| 2 | Jack Lemmon |
| 2 | Jeremy Pope |
| 2 | Joe Mantello |
| 2 | Joel Blum |
| 2 | Josh Groban |
| 2 | John Gielgud |
| 2 | Jude Law |
| 2 | K. Todd Freeman |
| 2 | Keith Carradine |
| 2 | Larry Bryggman |
| 2 | Larry Haines |
| 2 | Lewis J. Stadlen |
| 2 | Liam Neeson |
| 2 | Lin-Manuel Miranda |
| 2 | Maurice Evans |
| 2 | Maurice Hines |
| 2 | Michael Stuhlbarg |
| 2 | Milo O'Shea |
| 2 | Nicol Williamson |
| 2 | Patrick Wilson |
| 2 | Peter Frechette |
| 2 | Rob McClure |
| 2 | Robert Prosky |
| 2 | Robert Weede |
| 2 | Samuel Barnett |
| 2 | Samuel E. Wright |
| 2 | Savion Glover |
| 2 | Stark Sands |
| 2 | Stephen McKinley Henderson |
| 2 | Theodore Bikel |
| 2 | Tom Courtenay |
| 2 | Tom Sturridge |
| 2 | Tom Wopat |
| 2 | Tony Roberts |
| 2 | Wilfrid Hyde-White |

## Trivia

* A supporting actor in each of Neil Simon's Eugene trilogy (Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues and Broadway Bound) has taken the Tony.
* Featured actors in both parts of the original production and the 2018 revival of Tony Kushner's Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes series have won the award.
* Matthew Broderick currently holds the record for the youngest person to ever receive this award, at 21 years old.
* Roy Dotrice currently holds the record for the oldest person to ever receive this award, at 77 years old.