page_title: Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play
section_title: Recipients
hierarchical_section_title: Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play / Recipients
caption_attribution_description: English: Swoosie Kurtz at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Poliwood. Photographer's blog post about the event at which this portrait was taken.
context_page_description: The Tony Award for Best Featured Actress 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 actresses for quality supporting roles in a Broadway play. The awards are named after Antoinette Perry, an American actress who died in 1946. 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."
  Originally called the "Tony Award for Actress, Supporting or Featured", Patricia Neal first won the award at the inception of the ceremony for her portrayal of Regina Hubbard in Lillian Hellman's Another Part of the Forest. Before 1956, nominees' names were not made public: the change was made by the awards committee to "have a greater impact on theatregoers". The award was renamed in 1976, when Shirley Knight became the first winner under the new title for her role as Carla in Robert Patrick's Kennedy's Children. Its most recent recipient is Celia Keenan-Bolger, for the role of Scout Finch, in To Kill a Mockingbird.
caption: Two-time award winner Swoosie Kurtz
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