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The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play presented since 1947, is awarded to actors in productions of new or revival plays.

Award winners

1940s

1950s



Ben Gazzara – A Hatful of Rain
Boris Karloff – The Lark
Michael Redgrave – Tiger at the Gates
Edward G. Robinson – Middle of the Night

Maurice Evans – The Apple Cart
Wilfred Hyde-White – The Reluctant Debutante
Eric Portman – Separate Tables
Ralph Richardson – The Waltz of the Toreadors
Cyril Ritchard – Visit to a Small Planet

Richard Burton – Time Remembered
Hugh Griffith – Look Homeward, Angel
Laurence Olivier – The Entertainer
Anthony Perkins – Look Homeward, Angel
Peter Ustinov – Romanoff and Juliet
Emlyn Williams – A Boy Growing Up

Cedric Hardwicke – A Majority of One
Alfred Lunt – The Visit
Christopher Plummer – J.B.
Cyril Ritchard – The Pleasure of His Company
Robert Stephens – Epitaph for George Dillon

1960s

Lee Tracy – The Best Man
Jason Robards, Jr. – Toys in the Attic
Sidney Poitier – A Raisin in the Sun
George C. Scott – The Andersonville Trial

Hume Cronyn – Big Fish, Little Fish
Sam Levene – The Devil's Advocate
Anthony Quinn – Becket

Fredric March – Gideon
John Mills – Ross
Donald Pleasence – The Caretaker

Charles Boyer – Lord Pengo
Paul Ford – Never Too Late
Bert Lahr – The Beauty Part

Richard Burton – Hamlet
Albert Finney – Luther
Jason Robards, Jr. – After the Fall

John Gielgud – Tiny Alice
Donald Pleasence – Poor Bitos
Jason Robards – Hughie

Roland Culver – Ivanov
Donal Donnelly and Patrick Bedford – Philadelphia, Here I Come!
Nicol Williamson – Inadmissible Evidence

Hume Cronyn – A Delicate Balance
Donald Madden – Black Comedy
Donald Moffat – Right You Are and The Wild Duck

Albert Finney – A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Milo O'Shea – Staircase
Alan Webb – I Never Sang for My Father

Art Carney – Lovers
Alec McCowen – Hadrian the Seventh
Donald Pleasence – The Man in the Glass Booth

1970s

James Coco – The Last of the Red Hot Lovers
Frank Grimes – Borstal Boy
Stacy Keach – Indians

John Gielgud – Home
Alec McCowen – The Philanthropist
Ralph Richardson – Home

Tom Aldredge – Sticks and Bones
Donald Pleasence – Wise Child
Jason Robards – The Country Girl

Jack Albertson – The Sunshine Boys
Wilfrid Hyde-White – The Jockey Club Stakes
Paul Sorvino – That Championship Season

Zero Mostel – Ulysses in Nighttown
Jason Robards – A Moon for the Misbegotten
George C. Scott – Uncle Vanya
Nicol Williamson – Uncle Vanya


- Winston Ntshona – The Island
Jim Dale – Scapino
Peter Firth – Equus
Henry Fonda – Clarence Darrow
Ben Gazzara – Hughie and Duet
John Wood – Sherlock Holmes

Moses Gunn – The Poison Tree
George C. Scott – Death of a Salesman
Donald Sinden – Habeas Corpus

Tom Courtenay – Otherwise Engaged
Ben Gazzara – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Ralph Richardson – No Man's Land

Hume Cronyn – The Gin Game
Frank Langella – Dracula
Jason Robards – A Touch of the Poet

Philip Anglim – The Elephant Man
Jack Lemmon – Tribute
Alec McCowen – St. Mark's Gospel

1980s

Charles Brown – Home
Gerald Hiken – Strider
Judd Hirsch – Talley's Folly

Tim Curry – Amadeus
Roy Dotrice – A Life
Jack Weston – The Floating Light Bulb

Tom Courtenay – The Dresser
Milo O'Shea – Mass Appeal
Christopher Plummer – Othello

Jeffrey DeMunn – K2
Edward Herrmann – Plenty
Tony Lo Bianco – A View from the Bridge

Calvin Levels – Open Admissions
Rex Harrison – Heartbreak House
Ian McKellen – Ian McKellen Acting Shakespeare

Jim Dale – A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Jonathan Hogan – As Is
John Lithgow – Requiem for a Heavyweight

Hume Cronyn – The Petition
Ed Harris – Precious Sons
Jack Lemmon – Long Day's Journey into Night

Philip Bosco – You Never Can Tell
Richard Kiley – All My Sons
Alan Rickman – Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Derek Jacobi – Breaking the Code
John Lithgow – M. Butterfly
Robert Prosky – A Walk in the Woods

Mikhail Baryshnikov – Metamorphosis
Victor Garber – Lend Me a Tenor
Bill Irwin – Largely New York

1990s

Charles S. Dutton – The Piano Lesson
Dustin Hoffman – The Merchant of Venice
Tom Hulce – A Few Good Men

Peter Frechette – Our Country's Good
Tom McGowan – La Bête
Courtney B. Vance – Six Degrees of Separation

Alan Alda – Jake's Women
Alec Baldwin – A Streetcar Named Desire
Brian Bedford – Two Shakespearean Actors

K. Todd Freeman – The Song of Jacob Zulu
Liam Neeson – Anna Christie
Stephen Rea – Someone Who'll Watch Over Me

Brian Bedford – Timon of Athens
Christopher Plummer – No Man's Land
Sam Waterston – Abe Lincoln in Illinois

Brian Bedford – The Molière Comedies
Roger Rees – Indiscretions
Joe Sears – A Tuna Christmas

Philip Bosco – Moon Over Buffalo
George C. Scott – Inherit the Wind
Martin Shaw – An Ideal Husband

Brian Bedford – London Assurance
Michael Gambon – Skylight
Antony Sher – Stanley

Richard Briers – The Chairs
John Leguizamo – Freak
Alfred Molina – 'Art'

Brian F. O'Byrne – The Lonesome West
Corin Redgrave – Not About Nightingales
Kevin Spacey – The Iceman Cometh

2000s

Gabriel Byrne – A Moon for the Misbegotten
Philip Seymour Hoffman – True West
John C. Reilly – True West
David Suchet – Amadeus

Seán Campion – Stones in His Pockets
Conleth Hill – Stones in His Pockets
Brian Stokes Mitchell – King Hedley II
Gary Sinise – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Billy Crudup – The Elephant Man
Liam Neeson – The Crucible
Alan Rickman – Private Lives
Jeffrey Wright – Topdog/Underdog

Brian Bedford – Tartuffe
Eddie Izzard – A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Paul Newman – Our Town
Stanley Tucci – Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune

Simon Russell Beale – Jumpers
Kevin Kline – Henry IV
Frank Langella – Match
Christopher Plummer – King Lear

Philip Bosco – Twelve Angry Men
Billy Crudup – The Pillowman
James Earl Jones – On Golden Pond
Brían F. O'Byrne – Doubt

Ralph Fiennes – Faith Healer
Željko Ivanek – The Caine Mutiny Court Martial
Oliver Platt – Shining City
David Wilmot – The Lieutenant of Inishmore

Boyd Gaines – Journey's End
Brían F. O'Byrne – The Coast of Utopia
Christopher Plummer – Inherit the Wind
Liev Schreiber – Talk Radio

Ben Daniels – Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Laurence Fishburne – Thurgood
Rufus Sewell – Rock 'n' Roll
Patrick Stewart – Macbeth

Award records

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