Tony Award untuk Aktris Terbaik dalam Drama

Tony Award untuk Penampilan Terbaik oleh Aktris Utama dalam sebuah Drama adalah sebuah kehormatan yang diberikan pada Tony Awards, acara yang ditetapkan pada tahun 1947 sebagai Antoinette Perry Awards untuk Keunggulan dalam Teater, untuk aktris untuk peran utama yang berkualitas dalam sebuah drama Broadway. Penghargaan ini diberi nama berdasarkan Antoinette Perry, seorang aktris Amerika yang meninggal pada tahun 1946.

Penghargaan dalam beberapa kategori diberikan pada acara tahunan oleh Tony Award Productions, anak perusahaan The Broadway League dan American Theatre Wing, untuk "menghormati pertunjukan dan produksi panggung terbaik tahun sebelumnya." 

Penghargaan ini awalnya disebut Tony Award for Aktris—Drama. Penghargaan ini masing-masing pertama kali dipersembahkan kepada Ingrid Bergman dan Helen Hayes di Penghargaan Tony ke-1 atas peran mereka sebagai Mary Grey / Joan of Arc dan Addie Bemis dalam Joan of Lorraine dan Happy Birthday. Sebelum tahun 1956, nama-nama nominasi tidak dipublikasikan; Perubahan tersebut dilakukan oleh komite penghargaan untuk "memberikan dampak lebih besar pada penonton teater". 

Ada dua kali seri dan satu kali seri tiga arah dalam kategori ini. Julie Harris memegang rekor sebagai pemegang kemenangan dan nominasi terbanyak dalam kategori ini, dengan total lima kemenangan dari sembilan nominasi. Medea dalam drama dengan judul yang sama adalah karakter yang paling banyak menerima penghargaan, menang tiga kali.

Pemenang dan nominasi

1940-an
 Tahun Aktris Drama Peran  1947   Ingrid Bergman Joan of Lorraine Mary Grey / Joan of Arc Helen Hayes Happy Birthday Addie Bemis 1948   Judith Anderson Medea Medea Katharine Cornell Antony and Cleopatra Cleopatra Jessica Tandy A Streetcar Named Desire Blanche DuBois 1949   Martita Hunt The Madwoman of Chaillot Countess Aurelia
1950-an
 Tahun Aktris Drama Peran  1950   Shirley Booth Come Back, Little Sheba Lola Delaney 1951   Uta Hagen The Country Girl Georgie Elgin 1952   Julie Harris I Am a Camera Sally Bowles 1953   Shirley Booth The Time of the Cuckoo Leona Samish 1954   Audrey Hepburn Ondine Ondine 1955   Nancy Kelly The Bad Seed Christine Penmark 1956   Julie Harris The Lark Joan of Arc  Barbara Bel Geddes Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Maggie Pollitt Gladys Cooper The Chalk Garden Mrs. St. Maugham Ruth Gordon The Matchmaker Dolly Gallagher Levi Siobhán McKenna The Chalk Garden Miss Madrigal Susan Strasberg The Diary of Anne Frank Anne Frank 1957   Margaret Leighton Separate Tables Ann Shankland / Sibyl Railton-Bell  Florence Eldridge Long Day's Journey into Night Mary Cavan Tyrone Rosalind Russell Auntie Mame Mame Dennis Sybil Thorndike The Potting Shed Mrs. Callifer 1958   Helen Hayes Time Remembered The Duchess of Pont-Au-Bronc  Wendy Hiller A Moon for the Misbegotten Josie Hogan Siobhán McKenna The Rope Dancers Margaret Hyland Eugenie Leontovich The Cave Dwellers The Queen Mary Ure Look Back in Anger Alison Porter Jo Van Fleet Look Homeward, Angel Eliza Gant 1959   Gertrude Berg A Majority of One Bertha Jacoby  Claudette Colbert The Marriage-Go-Round Content Lowell Lynn Fontanne The Visit Claire Zachanassian Kim Stanley A Touch of the Poet Sara Melody Maureen Stapleton The Cold Wind And The Warm Aunt Ida
1960-an
 Tahun Aktris Drama Peran  1960   Anne Bancroft The Miracle Worker Annie Sullivan  Margaret Leighton Much Ado About Nothing Beatrice Claudia McNeil A Raisin in the Sun Lena Younger Geraldine Page Sweet Bird of Youth Alexandra Del Lago Maureen Stapleton Toys in the Attic Carrie Berniers Irene Worth Albertine Prine 1961   Joan Plowright A Taste of Honey Josephine  Tallulah Bankhead Midgie Purvis Midgie Purvis Barbara Baxley Period of Adjustment Isabel Haverstick Barbara Bel Geddes Mary, Mary Mary McKellaway 1962   Margaret Leighton The Night of the Iguana Hannah Jelkes  Gladys Cooper A Passage to India Mrs. Moore Colleen Dewhurst Great Day in the Morning Phoebe Flaherty Kim Stanley A Far Country Elizabeth von Ritter  1963   Uta Hagen Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Martha  Hermione Baddeley The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore Flora Goforth Margaret Leighton Tchin-Tchin Pamela Pew-Pickett Claudia McNeil Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright Mama Morris 1964   Sandy Dennis Any Wednesday Ellen Gordon  Elizabeth Ashley Barefoot in the Park Corie Bratter    Colleen Dewhurst The Ballad of the Sad Café Amelia Evans Julie Harris Marathon '33 June Havoc 1965   Irene Worth Tiny Alice Miss Alice  Marjorie Rhodes All in Good Time Lucy Fitton Beah Richards The Amen Corner Sister Margaret Alexander Diana Sands The Owl and the Pussycat Doris 1966   Rosemary Harris The Lion in Winter Eleanor dari Aquitaine  Sheila Hancock Entertaining Mr Sloane Kath Kate Reid Slapstick Tragedy Celeste/Molly Lee Remick Wait Until Dark Susy Hendrix 1967   Beryl Reid The Killing of Sister George Sister George / June Buckridge  Eileen Atkins The Killing of Sister George Childie / Alice McNaught Vivien Merchant The Homecoming Ruth Rosemary Murphy A Delicate Balance Claire 1968   Zoe Caldwell The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Jean Brodie  Colleen Dewhurst More Stately Mansions Sara (Melody) Harford Maureen Stapleton Plaza Suite Karen Nash / Murial Tate / Norma Hubley Dorothy Tutin Portrait of a Queen Ratu Victoria  1969   Julie Harris Forty Carats Ann Stanley  Estelle Parsons The Seven Descents of Myrtle Myrtle Charlotte Rae Morning, Noon and Night Gertrude / Beryl / Filigree Bones Brenda Vaccaro The Goodbye People Nancy (Silverman) Scott
1970-an
 Tahun Aktris Drama Peran  1970   Tammy Grimes Private Lives Amanda Prynne  Geraldine Brooks Brightower Sara Brightower  Helen Hayes Harvey Veta Louise Simmons 1971   Maureen Stapleton The Gingerbread Lady Evy Meara  Estelle Parsons And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little Catherine Reardon Diana Rigg Abelard and Heloise Héloïse Marian Seldes Father's Day Marian 1972   Sada Thompson Twigs Ma / Dorothy / Celia / Emily  Eileen Atkins Vivat! Vivat Regina!  Elizabeth I Colleen Dewhurst All Over The Mistress Rosemary Harris Old Times Anna 1973   Julie Harris The Last of Mrs. Lincoln Mary Todd Lincoln  Jane Alexander 6 Rms Riv Vu Annie Miller Colleen Dewhurst Mourning Becomes Electra Christine Mannon Kathleen Widdoes Much Ado About Nothing Beatrice 1974   Colleen Dewhurst A Moon for the Misbegotten Josie Hogan  Jane Alexander Find Your Way Home Jacqueline Harrison Julie Harris The Au Pair Man Elizabeth Rogers Madeline Kahn In the Boom Boom Room Chrissy Rachel Roberts The Visit / Chemin de Fer Claire Zachanassian / Francine 1975   Ellen Burstyn Same Time, Next Year Doris  Elizabeth Ashley Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Maggie Pollitt Diana Rigg The Misanthrope Célimène Maggie Smith Private Lives Amanda Prynne Liv Ullmann A Doll's House Nora Helmer 1976   Irene Worth Sweet Bird of Youth Alexandra Del Lago  Tovah Feldshuh Yentl Yentl Rosemary Harris The Royal Family Julie Cavendish Lynn Redgrave Mrs. Warren's Profession Vivie Warren 1977   Julie Harris The Belle of Amherst Emily Dickinson  Colleen Dewhurst Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Martha Liv Ullmann Anna Christie Anna Christopherson Irene Worth The Cherry Orchard Ranevskaya 1978   Jessica Tandy The Gin Game Fonsia Dorsey  Anne Bancroft Golda Golda Meir Anita Gillette Chapter Two Jennie Malone Estelle Parsons Miss Margarida's Way Miss Margarida 1979   Constance Cummings Wings Emily Stilson  Carole Shelley The Elephant Man Madge Kendal Jane Alexander First Monday in October Ruth Loomis Frances Sternhagen On Golden Pond Ethel Thayer
1980-an
 Tahun Aktris Drama Peran  1980   Phyllis Frelich Children of a Lesser God Sarah Norman  Blythe Danner Betrayal Emma Maggie Smith Night and Day Ruth Carson Anne Twomey Nuts Claudia Draper 1981   Jane Lapotaire Piaf Édith Piaf  Glenda Jackson Rose Rose Eva Le Gallienne To Grandmother's House We Go Grandie Elizabeth Taylor The Little Foxes Regina Giddens 1982   Zoe Caldwell Medea Medea  Katharine Hepburn The West Side Waltz Margaret Mary Elderdice Geraldine Page Agnes of God Mother Miriam Ruth Amanda Plummer A Taste of Honey Josephine 1983   Jessica Tandy Foxfire Annie Nations  Kathy Bates 'night, Mother Jessie Cates Kate Nelligan Plenty Susan Traherne Anne Pitoniak 'night, Mother Thelma Cates 1984   Glenn Close The Real Thing Annie  Rosemary Harris Heartbreak House Hesione Hushabye Linda Hunt End of the World Audrey Wood Kate Nelligan A Moon for the Misbegotten Josie Hogan 1985   Stockard Channing A Day in the Death of Joe Egg Sheila  Sinéad Cusack Much Ado About Nothing Beatrice Rosemary Harris Pack of Lies Barbara Jackson Glenda Jackson Strange Interlude Nina Leeds 1986   Lily Tomlin The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe Berbagai Karakter  Rosemary Harris Hay Fever Judith Bliss Mary Beth Hurt Benefactors Sheila Jessica Tandy The Petition Elizabeth Milne 1987   Linda Lavin Broadway Bound Kate Jerome  Lindsay Duncan Dangerous Liaisons Marquise de Merteuil Geraldine Page Blithe Spirit Madame Arcati Amanda Plummer Pygmalion Eliza Doolittle 1988   Joan Allen Burn This Anna Mann  Blythe Danner A Streetcar Named Desire Blanche DuBois Glenda Jackson Macbeth Lady Macbeth Frances McDormand A Streetcar Named Desire Stella Kowalski 1989   Pauline Collins Shirley Valentine Shirley Valentine  Joan Allen The Heidi Chronicles Heidi Holland Madeline Kahn Born Yesterday Emma 'Billie' Dawn Kate Nelligan Spoils of War Elise
1990-an
 Tahun Aktris Drama Peran  1990   Maggie Smith Lettice and Lovage Lettice Douffet  Geraldine James The Merchant of Venice Portia Mary-Louise Parker Prelude to a Kiss Rita Boyle Kathleen Turner Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Maggie Pollitt 1991   Mercedes Ruehl Lost in Yonkers Bella Kurnitz  Stockard Channing Six Degrees of Separation Ouisa Kittredge Julie Harris Lucifer's Child Karen Blixen Cherry Jones Our Country's Good Liz Morden / Reverend Johnson 1992   Glenn Close Death and the Maiden Paulina Salas Escobar  Jane Alexander The Visit Claire Zachanassian Stockard Channing Four Baboons Adoring the Sun Penny McKenzie Judith Ivey Park Your Car in Harvard Yard Kathleen Hogan 1993   Madeline Kahn The Sisters Rosensweig Gorgeous Teitelbaum  Jane Alexander The Sisters Rosensweig Sara Goode Lynn Redgrave Shakespeare for My Father Lynn Redgrave Natasha Richardson Anna Christie Anna Christopherson 1994   Diana Rigg Medea Medea  Anna Deavere Smith Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 Various Characters Nancy Marchand Black Comedy Sophie The White Liars Mrs. Furnival Joan Rivers Sally Marr...and her escorts Sally Marr 1995   Cherry Jones The Heiress Catherine Sloper  Mary Alice Having Our Say Bessie Delany Eileen Atkins Indiscretions Léonie  Helen Mirren A Month in the Country Natalia Petrovna 1996   Zoe Caldwell Master Class Maria Callas  Carol Burnett Moon Over Buffalo Charlotte Hay Rosemary Harris A Delicate Balance Agnes Elaine Stritch Claire 1997   Janet McTeer A Doll's House Nora Helmer  Julie Harris The Gin Game Fonsia Dorsey Shirley Knight The Young Man From Atlanta Lily Dale Kidder Lia Williams Skylight Kyra Hollis 1998   Marie Mullen The Beauty Queen of Leenane Maureen Folan  Jane Alexander Honour Honor Allison Janney A View from the Bridge Beatrice Carbone Geraldine McEwan The Chairs Old Woman 1999   Judi Dench Amy's View Esme Allen  Stockard Channing The Lion in Winter Eleanor of Aquitaine Marian Seldes Ring Round the Moon Madame Desmermortes Zoë Wanamaker Electra Electra
2000-an
 Tahun Aktris Drama Peran  2000   Jennifer Ehle The Real Thing Annie  Jayne Atkinson The Rainmaker Lizzie Curry Rosemary Harris Waiting in the Wings May Davenport Cherry Jones A Moon for the Misbegotten Josie Hogan Claudia Shear Dirty Blonde Jo / Mae West 2001   Mary-Louise Parker Proof Catherine Llewellyn  Juliette Binoche Betrayal Emma Linda Lavin The Tale of the Allergist's Wife Marjorie Taub Jean Smart The Man Who Came to Dinner Lorraine Sheldon Leslie Uggams King Hedley II Ruby 2002   Lindsay Duncan Private Lives Amanda Prynne  Kate Burton Hedda Gabler Hedda Gabler Laura Linney The Crucible Elizabeth Proctor Helen Mirren The Dance of Death Alice Mercedes Ruehl The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? Stevie Gray 2003   Vanessa Redgrave Long Day's Journey into Night Mary Tyrone  Jayne Atkinson Enchanted April Lotty Wilton Victoria Hamilton A Day in the Death of Joe Egg Sheila Clare Higgins Vincent in Brixton Ursula Loyler Fiona Shaw Medea Medea 2004   Phylicia Rashad A Raisin in the Sun Lena Younger  Eileen Atkins The Retreat from Moscow Alice Tovah Feldshuh Golda's Balcony Golda Meir Anne Heche Twentieth Century Lily Garland / Mildred Plotka Swoosie Kurtz Frozen Nancy Shirley 2005   Cherry Jones Doubt Sister Aloysius Beauvier  Laura Linney Sight Unseen Patricia Mary-Louise Parker Reckless Rachel Phylicia Rashad Gem of the Ocean Aunt Ester Kathleen Turner Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Martha 2006   Cynthia Nixon Rabbit Hole Becca Corbett  Kate Burton The Constant Wife Constance Culver Middleton Judy Kaye Souvenir Florence Foster Jenkins Lisa Kron Well Lisa Kron Lynn Redgrave The Constant Wife Mrs. Culver 2007   Julie White The Little Dog Laughed Diane  Eve Best A Moon for the Misbegotten Josie Hogan Swoosie Kurtz Heartbreak House Hesione Hushabye Angela Lansbury Deuce Leona Mullen Vanessa Redgrave The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion 2008   Deanna Dunagan August: Osage County Violet Weston  Eve Best The Homecoming Ruth Kate Fleetwood Macbeth Lady Macbeth S. Epatha Merkerson Come Back, Little Sheba Lola Delaney Amy Morton August: Osage County Barbara Weston-Fordham 2009   Marcia Gay Harden God of Carnage Veronica  Hope Davis God of Carnage Annette Jane Fonda 33 Variations Katherine Brandt Janet McTeer Mary Stuart  Mary Stuart Harriet Walter Elizabeth I
2010-an
  Tahun Aktris Drama Peran  2010   Viola Davis Fences Rose Maxson  Valerie Harper Looped Tallulah Bankhead Linda Lavin Collected Stories Ruth Steiner Laura Linney Time Stands Still Sarah Goodwin Jan Maxwell The Royal Family Julie Cavendish 2011   Frances McDormand Good People Margie Walsh  Nina Arianda Born Yesterday Emma 'Billie' Dawn Lily Rabe The Merchant of Venice Portia Vanessa Redgrave Driving Miss Daisy Daisy Werthan Hannah Yelland Brief Encounter Laura Jesson 2012   Nina Arianda Venus in Fur Vanda  Tracie Bennett End of the Rainbow Judy Garland Stockard Channing Other Desert Cities Polly Wyeth Linda Lavin The Lyons Rita Lyons Cynthia Nixon Wit Vivian Bearing 2013   Cicely Tyson The Trip to Bountiful Carrie Watts  Laurie Metcalf The Other Place Juliana Smithton Amy Morton Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Martha Kristine Nielsen Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Sonia Holland Taylor Ann Ann Richards 2014   Audra McDonald Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill Billie Holiday  Tyne Daly Mothers and Sons Katharine Gerard Cherry Jones The Glass Menagerie Amanda Wingfield  Estelle Parsons The Velocity of Autumn Alexandra  LaTanya Richardson A Raisin in the Sun Lena Younger 2015   Helen Mirren The Audience Ratu Elizabeth II  Geneva Carr Hand To God Margery Elisabeth Moss The Heidi Chronicles Heidi Holland Carey Mulligan Skylight Kyra Hollis Ruth Wilson Constellations Marianne 2016   Jessica Lange Long Day's Journey into Night Mary Tyrone  Laurie Metcalf Misery Annie Wilkes Lupita Nyong'o Eclipsed The Girl Sophie Okonedo The Crucible Elizabeth Proctor Michelle Williams Blackbird Una Spencer 2017   Laurie Metcalf A Doll's House, Part 2 Nora Helmer  Cate Blanchett The PresentAnna Petrovna Jennifer Ehle Oslo Mona Juul Sally Field The Glass Menagerie Amanda Wingfield Laura Linney The Little Foxes Regina Hubbard Giddens 2018   Glenda Jackson Three Tall Women A  Condola Rashād Saint Joan Joan of Arc Lauren Ridloff Children of a Lesser God Sarah Norman Amy Schumer Meteor Shower Corky 2019   Elaine May The Waverly Gallery Gladys Green   Annette Bening All My Sons Kate Keller Laura Donnelly The Ferryman Caitlin Carney Janet McTeer Bernhardt/Hamlet Sarah Bernhardt Laurie Metcalf Hillary and Clinton Hillary Clinton Heidi Schreck What the Constitution Means to Me Heidi Schreck
2020-an
 Tahun  Aktris Drama Peran   2020   Mary-Louise Parker The Sound Inside Bella Baird  Joaquina Kalukango Slave Play Kaneisha Laura Linney My Name Is Lucy Barton Lucy Barton Audra McDonald Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune Frankie 2021 Ditiadakan  2022   Deirdre O'Connell Dana H. Dana H.  Gabby Beans The Skin of Our Teeth Sabina LaChanze Trouble in Mind Wiletta Mayer Ruth Negga Macbeth Lady Macbeth Mary-Louise Parker How I Learned to Drive Li'l Bit 2023   Jodie Comer Prima Facie Tessa Ensler  Jessica Chastain A Doll's House Nora Helmer Jessica Hecht Summer, 1976 Alice Audra McDonald Ohio State Murders Suzanne Alexander 2024   Sarah Paulson Appropriate Antoinette "Toni" Lafayette  Betsy Aidem Prayer for the French Republic Marcelle Salomon Benhamou Jessica Lange Mother Play Phyllis Rachel McAdams Mary Jane Mary Jane Amy Ryan Doubt: A Parable Sister Aloysius Beauvier 2025   Sarah Snook The Picture of Dorian Gray Dorian Gray, et. al.  Laura Donnelly  The Hills of California Veronica / Joan	 Mia Farrow The Roommate Sharon LaTanya Richardson Jackson Purpose Claudine Jasper	 Sadie Sink John Proctor Is the Villain Shelby Holcomb	

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