Tony Awards
From Juanita Hall ("South Pacific") in 1950 to Laura Benanti ("Gypsy") in 2008, the Tony Awards have awarded the Best Featured Actress in a Musical award throughout the years.
The Best Featured Actress in a Musical Tony Award is for a non-starring actress in a musical. Audra McDonald has won the award twice for "Ragtime" in 1998 and for "Carousel" in 1994.
Who Won Featured Actress in a Musical Tony Awards?
| 2008 Laura Benanti ("Gypsy") | |
| Other Nominees: de'Adre Aziza (Passing Strange); Andrea Martin (Young Frankenstein); Olga Merediz (In The Heights); Loretta Ables Sayre (South Pacifici) | |
| 2007 Mary Louise Wilson ("Grey Gardens") | |
| Other Nominees: Charlotte d'Amboise (A Chorus Line); Rebecca Luker (Mary Poppins); Orfeh (Legally Blonde The Musical); Karen Ziemba (Curtains) | |
| 2006 Beth Leavel ("The Drowsy Chaperone") | |
| Other Nominees: Carolee Carmello (Lestat); Felicia P Fields (The Color Purple); Megan Lawrence (The Pajama Game); Elisabeth Withers-Mendes (The Color Purple) | |
| 2005 Sara Ramirez ("Monty Python's Spamalot") |  
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| Other Nominees: Joanna Gleason (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels); Celia Keenan-Bolger (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee); Jan Maxwell (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang); Kelli O'Hara (The Light in the Piazza) | |
| 2004 Anika Noni Rose ("Caroline or Change") | |
| Other Nominees: Beth Fowler (The Boy from Oz); Isabel Keating (The Boy from Oz); Jennifer Westfeldt (Wonderful Town); Karen Ziemba (Never Gonna Dance) | |
| 2003 Jane Krakowski ("Nine") | |
| Other Nominees: Tammy Blanchard (Gypsy); Mary Stuart Masterson (Nine); Chita Rivera (Nine); Ashley Tuttle (Movin' Out) | |
| 2002 Harriet Harris ("Thoroughly Modern Millie") | |
| Other Nominees: Andrea Martin (Oklahoma!); Judy Kaye (Mamma Mia!); Laura Benanti (Into the Woods); Spencer Kayden (Urinetown The Musical) | |
| 2001 Cady Huffman ("The Producers") | |
| Other Nominees: Polly Bergen (Follies); Kathleen Freeman (The Full Monty); Kate Levering (42nd Street); Mary Testa (42nd Street) | |
| 2000 Karen Ziemba ("Contact") | |
| Other Nominees: Laura Benanti (Swing!); Ann Hampton Callaway (Swing!); Eartha Kitt (The Wild Party); Deborah Yates (Contact) | |
| 1999 Kristin Chenoweth ("You're A Good Man Charlie Brown") | |
| Other Nominees: Gretha Boston (It Ain't Nothin' But The Blues); Valarie Pettiford (Fosse); Mary Testa (On the Town) | |
| 1998 Audra McDonald ("Ragtime") | |
| Other Nominees: Anna Kendrick (High Society); Tsidii Le Loka (The Lion King); Mary Louise Wilson (Cabaret) | |
| 1997 Lillias White ("The Life") | |
| Other Nominees: Marcia Lewis (Chicago); Andrea Martin (Candide); Debra Monk (Steel Pier) | |
| 1996 Ann Duquesnay ("Bring In 'Da Noise/Bring In 'Da Funk") | |
| Other Nominees: Joohee Choi (The King And I); Veanne Cox (Company); Idina Menzel (Rent) | |
| 1995 Gretha Boston ("Show Boat") | |
| Other Nominees: Branda Braxton (Smokey Joe's Cafe); BJ Crosby (Smokey Joe's Cafe); DeLee Lively (Smokey Joe's Cafe) | |
| 1994 Audra Ann McDonald ("Carousel") | |
| Other Nominees: Marcia Lewis (Grease); Sally Mayes (She Loves Me); Marin Mazzie (Passion) | |
| 1993 Andrea Martin ("My Favorite Year") | |
| Other Nominees: Jan Graveson (Blood Brothers); Lainie Kazan (My Favorite Year); Marcia Mitzman (The Who's Tommy) | |
| 1992 Tonya Pinkins ("Jelly's Last Jam") | |
| Other Nominees: Liz Larson (The Most Happy Fella); Vivian Reed (The High Rollers Social and Pleasure Club); Barbara Walsh (Falsettos) | |
| 1991 Daisy Eagan ("The Secret Garden") | |
| Other Nominees: Alison Fraser (The Secret Garden); Cady Huffman (The Will Rogers Follies); La Chanze (Once On This Island) | |
| 1990 Randy Graff ("City of Angels") | |
| Other Nominees: Jane Krakowski (Grand Hotel The Musical); Kathleen Rowe McAllen (Aspects of Love); Crista Moore (Gypsy) | |
| 1989 Debbie Shapiro ("Jerome Robbins' Broadway") | |
| Other Nominees: Jane Lanier (Jerome Robbins' Broadway); Faith Prince (Jerome Robbins' Broadway); Julie Wilson (Legs Diamond) | |
| 1988 Judy Kaye ("The Phantom of the Opera") | |
| Other Nominees: Leleti Khumalo (Sarafina!); Alyson Reid (Cabaret); Regina Resnik (Cabaret) | |
| 1987 Frances Ruffelle ("Les Miserables") | |
| Other Nominees: Jane Connell (Me and My Girl); Judy Kuhn (Les Miserables); Jane Summerhays (Me and My Girl) | |
| 1986 Bebe Neuwirth ("Sweet Charity") | |
| Other Nominees: Patti Cohenour (The Mystery of Edwin Drood); Jana Schneider (The Mystery of Edwin Drood); Elisabeth Welch (Jerome Kern Goes To Hollywood) | |
| 1985 Leilani Jones ("Grind") | |
| Other Nominees: Evalyn Baron (Quilters); Mary Beth Peil (The King And I); Lenka Peterson (Quilters) | |
| 1984 Lila Kedrova ("Zorba") | |
| Other Nominees: Martine Allard (The Tap Dance Kid); Liz Callaway (Baby); Dana Ivey (Sunday In the Park With George) | |
| 1983 Betty Buckley ("Cats") | |
| Other Nominees: Christine Andreas (On Your Toes); Karla Burns (Show Boat); Denny Dillon (My One and Only) | |
| 1982 Liliane Montevecchi ("Nine") | |
| Other Nominees: Karen Akers (Nine); Laurie Beechman (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat); Anita Morris (Nine) | |
| 1981 Marilyn Cooper ("Woman of the Year") | |
| Other Nominees: Phyllis Hyman (Sophisticated Ladies); Wanda Richert (42nd Street); Lynne Thigpen (Tintypes) | |
| 1980 Priscilla Lopez ("A Day In Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine") | 
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| Other Nominees: Debbie Allen (West Side Story); Glenn Close (Barnum); Josie de Guzman (West Side Story) | |
| 1979 Carlin Glynn ("The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas") | |
| Other Nominees: Joan Ellis (The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas); Millicent Martin (King of Hearts); Maxine Sullivan (My Old Friends) | |
| 1978 Nell Carter ("Ain't Misbehavin'") | 
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| Other Nominees: Imogene Coca (On the Twentieth Century); Ann Reinking (Dancin'); Charlaine Woodard (Ain't Misbehavin') | |
| 1977 Delores Hall ("Your Arm's Too Short To Box With God") | |
| Other Nominees: Ellen Green (Threepenny Opera); Millicent Martin (Side By Side by Sondheim); Julie N McKenzie (Side By Side by Sondheim) | |
| 1976 Carole Bishop ("A Chorus Line") | 
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| Other Nominees: Priscilla Lopez (A Chorus Line); Patti Lupone (The Robber Bridegroom); Virginia Seidel (Very Good Eddie) | |
| 1975 Dee Dee Bridgewater ("The Wiz") | |
| Other Nominees: Susan Browning (Goodtime Charley); Zan Charisse (Gypsy); Taina Elg (Where's Charley?); Kelly Garrett (The Night That Made America Famous); Donna Theodore (Shenandoah) | |
| 1974 Janie Sell ("Over Here!") | |
| Other Nominees: Leigh Berry (Cyrano); Maureen Brennan (Candide); June Gable (Candide); Ernestine Jackson (Raisin) | |
| 1973 Patricia Elliott ("A Little Night Music") | 
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| Other Nominees: Hermione Gingold (A Little Night Music); Patsy Kelly (Irene); Irene Ryan (Pippin) | |
| 1972 Linda Hopkins ("Inner City") | |
| Other Nominees: Adrienne Barbeau (Grease); Bernadette Peters (On the Town); Beatrice Winde (Ain't Supposed To Die A Natural Death) | |
| 1971 Patsy Kelly ("No No Nanette") | |
| Other Nominees: Barbara Barrie (Company); Pamela Myers (Company) | |
| 1970 Melba Moore ("Purlie") | |
| Other Nominees: Bonnie Franklin (Applause); Penny Fuller (Applause); Melissa Hart (Georgy) | |
| 1969 Marian Mercer ("Promises Promises") | |
| Other Nominees: Sandy Duncan (Canterbury Tales); Lorraine Serabian (Zorba); Virginia Vestoff (1776) | |
| 1968 Lillian Hayman ("Hallelujah Baby!") | |
| Other Nominees: Geula Gill (The Grand Music Hall of Israel); Julie Gregg (The Happy Time); Alice Playten (Henry Sweet Henry) | |
| 1967 Peg Murray ("Cabaret") | |
| Other Nominees: Leland Palmer (A Joyful Noise); Josephine Premice (A Hand Is On The Gate); Susan Watson (A Joyful Noise) | |
| 1966 Beatrice Arthur ("Mame") | |
| Other Nominees: Helen Gallagher (Sweet Charity); Patricia Marand (Superman); Charlotte Rae (Pickwick) | |
| 1965 Maria Karnilova ("Fiddler On the Roof") | |
| Other Nominees: Luba Lisa (I Had A Bell); Carrie Nye (Half a Sixpence); Barbara Windsor (Oh What A Lovely War) | |
| 1964 Tessie O'Shea ("The Girl Who Came To Supper") | |
| Other Nominees: Julienne Marie (Foxy); Kay Medford (Funny Girl); Louise Troy (High Spirits) | |
| 1963 Anna Quayle ("Stop the World - I Want To Get Off") | |
| Other Nominees: Ruth Kobart (A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To The Forum); Virginia Martin (Little Me); Louise Troy (Tovarich) | |
| 1962 Phyllis Newman ("Subways Are for Sleeping") | |
| Other Nominees: Elizabeth Allen (The Gay Life); Barbara Harris (From the Second City); Barbra Streisand (I Can Get It For You Wholesale) | |
| 1961 Tammy Grimes ("The Unsinkable Molly Brown") | |
| Other Nominees: Nancy Dussault (Do Re Mi); Chita Rivera (Bye Bye Birdie) | |
| 1960 NO AWARD | |
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| 1959 Pat Stanley ("Goldilocks") | |
| Other Nominees: Julienne Marie (Whoop-Up) | |
| 1958 Barbara Cook ("The Music Man") | |
| Other Nominees: Susan Johnson (Oh Captain); Carol Lawrence (West Side Story); Jacquelyn McKeever (Oh Captain); Josephine Premice (Jamaica) | |
| 1957 Edith Adams ("Li'l Abner") | |
| Other Nominees: Virginia Gibson (Happy Hunting); Irra Petina (Candide); Jo Sullivan (The Most Happy Fella) | |
| 1956 Lotte Lenya ("The Threepenny Opera") | |
| Other Nominees: Rae Allen (Damn Yankees); Pat Carroll (Catch a Star); Judy Tyler (Pipe Dream) | |
| 1955 Carol Haney ("The Pajama Game") | |
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| 1954 Gwen Verdon ("Can-Can") | |
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| 1953 Sheila Bond ("Wish You Were Here") | |
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| 1952 Helen Gallagher ("Pal Joey") | |
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| 1951 Isabel Bigley ("Guys and Dolls") | |
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| 1950 Juanita Hall ("South Pacific") | |
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