American theatre award for Broadway actors
TheTony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play is an honor presented at theTony Awards , a ceremony established in 1947 as the Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, to actors for quality supporting roles in aBroadway play. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the Tony Award Productions, a joint venture ofThe Broadway League and theAmerican Theatre Wing , to "honor the best performances and stage productions of the previous year."[ 1]
The award was originally called theTony Award for Actor, Supporting or Featured (Dramatic) . It was first presented toArthur Kennedy at the3rd Tony Awards for his portrayal of Biff Loman inArthur Miller 'sDeath of a Salesman 1956 , nominees' names were not made public;[ 2] [ 3]
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 inGlengarry Glen Ross ,A Moon for the Misbegotten ,Take Me Out
Winners and nominees [ edit ] indicates the winner
Arthur Kennedy won forDeath of a Salesman Eli Wallach won forThe Rose Tattoo (1951)Ed Begley won forInherit the Wind (1956)1959 award winnerCharlie Ruggles Roddy McDowall won forThe Fighting Cock (1961)Walter Matthau won forA Shot in the Dark (1962)Alan Arkin won forEnter, Laughing (1963)Hume Cronyn won forHamlet (1964)Jack Albertson won forThe Subject was Roses (1965)1967 award winnerIan Holm Al Pacino won forDoes a Tiger Wear a Necktie? (1969)Vincent Gardenia won forThe Prisoner of Second Avenue (1972)John Lithgow won forThe Changing Room (1973)Frank Langella , the only person to win the award multiple times, won in 1975 and 2002Jonathan Pryce won forComedians (1977)Michael Gough won forBedroom Farce (1979)Matthew Broderick won forBrighton Beach Memoirs (1983)1984 award winnerJoe Mantegna John Mahoney won forThe House of Blue Leaves (1986)1992 award winnerLaurence Fishburne B.D. Wong won in 1988. He is the first actor of Asian descent to win this categoryCharles Durning won forCat on a Hot Tin Roof (1990)Kevin Spacey won forLost in Yonkers (1991)Jeffrey Wright won forAngels in America (1993)1996 award winnerRuben Santiago-Hudson 2003 award winnerDenis O'Hare Liev Schreiber won forGlengarry Glen Ross (2005)Ian McDiarmid won in 2006 forFaith Healer Billy Crudup won forThe Coasts of Utopia (2007)Eddie Redmayne won forRed (2010)2011 award winnerJohn Benjamin Hickey Courtney B. Vance won forLucky Guy (2013)Mark Rylance won forTwelfth Night (2014)Michael Aronov won forOslo Nathan Lane won forAngels in America (2018)David Alan Grier won forA Soldier's Play (2020)Jesse Tyler Ferguson won forTake Me Out (2022)Brandon Uranowitz won forLeopoldstadt (2023)Will Brill won forStereophonic (2024)2 wins 3 nominations 2 nominations Character win total [ edit ] 2 wins Character nomination total [ edit ] 3 nominations 2 nominations Productions with multiple nominations [ edit ] boldface =Winner
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