Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play | |
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Awarded for | Quality supporting roles in a Broadway play |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Tony Award Productions (American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League) |
First awarded | 1947 |
Currently held by | Annaleigh Ashford (2015) |
Official website | tonyawards.com |
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."[1]
Six actresses (Christine Baranski, Judith Ivey, Judith Light, Swoosie Kurtz, Audra McDonald, and Frances Sternhagen) hold the record for most awards in this category, each with a total of two. Portrayals of Ruth Younger in A Raisin in the Sun have won twice, for Audra McDonald and Sophie Okonedo. Supporting actresses in two of three plays in Neil Simon's Eugene trilogy (Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound) were nominated for the Tony, and featured actresses in six parts of August Wilson's The Pittsburgh Cycle have also been nominated for the award.
The category was originally called the Tony Award for Actress, Supporting or Featured (Dramatic). Patricia Neal won the first award at the inception of the ceremony for her portrayal of Regina Hubbard in Lillian Hellman's Another Part of the Forest.[2] Before 1956, nominees' names were not made public:[3] the change was made by the awards committee to "have a greater impact on theatregoers".[4] 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.[5] Its most recent recipient is Annaleigh Ashford, for the role of Essie Carmichael, in You Can't Take It With You.[6]
Contents
Recipients
Win total
2 Wins
- Frances Sternhagen
- Swoosie Kurtz
- Judith Ivey
- Christine Baranski
- Audra McDonald
- Judith Light (consecutive)
Nomination total
5 Nominations 4 Nominations 3 Nominations |
2 Nominations
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Character win total
2 wins
- Ruth Younger from A Raisin in the Sun
Character nomination total
3 Nominations
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2 Nominations
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See also
- Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play
- Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical
- Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical
Notes
^[I] Each year is linked to the article about the Tony Awards held that year.
^[II] The "Ref." cites the role the winning actor portrayed in the work; the award winners and nominees are referenced by the general reference.
^[III] The Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play was not presented in 1948 or 1950.
^[IV] Sternhagen plays multiple roles in The Good Doctor;[69] as described by its author, the play is composed of "sketches, Vaudeville scenes, if you will, written with my non-consenting collaborator, Anton Chekhov".[70]
^[V] The Coast of Utopia is broken into three parts. Ehle played Liubov in "Voyage" (part one), Natalie Herzen in "Shipwreck" (part two), and Malwida von Meysenbug in "Salvage" (part three).[71]
References
- General
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