Tony Awards
From Ingrid Bergman ("Joan of Lorraine") in 1948 to Deanna Dunagan ("August: Osage County") in 2008, the Tony Awards have awarded excellence in acting on Broadway throughout the years.
Julie Harris has won the Tony for Leading Actress in a Play five times.
Who Won Lead Actress in a Play Tony Awards?
| 2008 Deanna Dunagan ("August: Osage County") |  
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| Other Nominees: Eve Best (The Homecoming); Kate Fleetwood (Macbeth); S Epatha Merkerson (Come Back Little Sheba); Amy Morton (August: Osage County) | |
| 2007 Julie White ("The Little Dog Laughed") | |
| Other Nominees: Eve Best (A Moon for the Misbegotten); Swoosie Kurtz (Heartbreak House); Angela Lansbury (Deuce); Vanessa Redgrave (The Year of Magical Thinking) | |
| 2006 Cynthia Nixon ("Rabbit Hole") | |
| Other Nominees: Kate Burton (The Constant Wife); Judy Kaye (Souvenir); Lisa Kron (Well); Lynn Redgrave (The Constant Wife) | |
| 2005 Cherry Jones ("Doubt") | |
| Other Nominees: Laura Linney (Sight Unseen); Mary-Louise Parker (Reckless); Phylicia Rashad (Gem of the Ocean); Kathleen Turner (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) | |
| 2004 Phylicia Rashad ("A Raisin In the Sun") | 
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| Other Nominees: Eileen Atkins (The Retreat from Moscow); Tovah Feldshuh (Golda's Balcony); Anne Heche (Twentieth Century); Swoosie Kurtz (Frozen) | |
| 2003 Vanessa Redgrave ("Long Day's Journey Into Night") | |
| Other Nominees: Jayne Atkinson (Enchanted April); Victoria Hamilton (A Day in the Death of Joe Egg); Clare Higgins (Vincent in Brixton); Fiona Shaw (Medea) | |
| 2002 Lindsay Duncan ("Private Lives") | |
| Other Nominees: Kate Burton (Hedda Gabler); Laura Linney (The Crucible); Helen Mirren (Dance of Death); Mercedes Ruehl (The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?) | |
| 2001 Mary-Louise Parker ("Proof") | |
| Other Nominees: Juliette Binoche (Betrayal); Linda Lavin (The Tale of the Allergist's Wife); Jean Smart (The Man Who Came To Dinner); Leslie Uggams (King Hedley II) | |
| 2000 Jennifer Ehle ("The Real Thing") | |
| Other Nominees: Jayne Atkinson (The Rainmaker); Rosemary Harris (Waiting In the Wings); Cherry Jones (A Moon for the Misbegotten); Claudia Shear (Dirty Blonde) | |
| 1999 Judi Dench ("Amy's View") | |
| Other Nominees: Stockard Channing (The Lion In Winter); Marian Seldes (Ring Round the Moon); Zoe Wanamaker (Electra) | |
| 1998 Marie Mullen ("The Beauty Queen of Leenane") | |
| Other Nominees: Jane Alexander (Honour); Allison Janney (A View From the Bridge); Geraldine McEwan (The Chairs) | |
| 1997 Janet McTeer ("A Doll's House") | 
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| Other Nominees: Julie Harris (The Gin Game); Shirley Knight (The Young Man From Atlanta); Lia Williams (Skylight) | |
| 1996 Zoe Caldwell ("Master Class") | |
| Other Nominees: Carol Burnett (Moon Over Buffalo); Rosemary Harris (A Delicate Balance); Elaine Stritch (A Delicate Balance) | |
| 1995 Cherry Jones ("The Heiress") | |
| Other Nominees: Mary Alice (Having Our Say); Eileen Atkins (Indiscretions); Helen Mirren (A Month in the Country) | |
| 1994 Diana Rigg ("Medea") | |
| Other Nominees: Nancy Marchand (Black Comedy); Joan Rivers (Sally Marr…and Her Escorts); Anna Deavere Smith (Twilight: Los Angeles 1992) | |
| 1993 Madeline Kahn ("The Sisters Rosensweig") | |
| Other Nominees: Jane Alexander (The Sisters Rosensweig); Lynn Redgrave (Shakespeare for my Father); Natasha Richardson (Anna Christie) | |
| 1992 Glenn Close ("Death and the Maiden") | |
| Other Nominees: Jane Alexander (The Visit); Stockard Channing (Four Baboons Adoring the Sun); Judith Ivey (Park Your Car In Harvard Yard) | |
| 1991 Mercedes Ruehl ("Lost In Yonkers") | |
| Other Nominees: Stockard Channing (Sex Degrees of Separation); Julie Harris (Lucifer's Child); Cherry Jones (Our Country's Good) | |
| 1990 Maggie Smith ("Lettice and Lovage") | |
| Other Nominees: Geraldine James (The Merchant of Venice); Mary-Louise Parker (Prelude To A Kiss); Kathleen Turner (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) | |
| 1989 Pauline Collins ("Shirley Valentine") | |
| Other Nominees: Joan Allen (The Heidi Chronicles); Madeline Kahn (Born Yesterday); Kate Nelligan (Spoils Of War) | |
| 1988 Joan Allen ("Burn This") | |
| Other Nominees: Blythe Danner (A Streetcar Named Desire); Glenda Jackson (Macbeth); Frances McDormand (A Streetcar Named Desire) | |
| 1987 Linda Lavin ("Broadway Bound") | |
| Other Nominees: Lindsay Duncan (Les Liaisons Dangereuses); Geraldine Page (Blithe Spirit); Amanda Plummer (Pygmalion) | |
| 1986 Lily Tomlin ("The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe") | |
| Other Nominees: Rosemary Harris (Hay Fever); Mary Beth Hurt (Benefactors); Jessica Tandy (The Petition) | |
| 1985 Stockard Channing ("Joe Egg") | |
| Other Nominees: Sinead Cusack (Much Ado About Nothing); Rosemary Harris (Pack of Lies); Glenda Jackson (Strange Interlude) | |
| 1984 Glenn Close ("The Real Thing") | |
| Other Nominees: Rosemary Harris (Heartbreak House); Linda Hunt (End of the World); Kate Nelligan (A Moon for the Misbegotten) | |
| 1983 Jessica Tandy ("Foxfire") | |
| Other Nominees: Kathy Bates (Night Mother); Kate Nelligan (Plenty); Anne Pitoniak (Night Mother) | |
| 1982 Zoe Caldwell ("Medea") | |
| Other Nominees: Katharine Hepburn (The West Side Waltz); Geraldine Page (Agnes Of God); Amanda Plummer (A Taste of Honey) | |
| 1981 Jane Lapotaire ("Piaf") | |
| Other Nominees: Glenda Jackson (Rose); Eva Le Gallienne (To Grandmother's House We Go); Elizabeth Taylor (The Little Foxes) | |
| 1980 Phyllis Frelich ("Children Of A Lesser God") | |
| Other Nominees: Blythe Danner (Betrayal); Maggie Smith (Night and Day); Anne Twomey (Nuts) | |
| 1979 Constance Cummings ("Wings") | |
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| Other Nominees: Jane Alexander (First Monday In October); Frances Sternhagen (On Golden Pond) | |
| 1979 Carole Shelley ("The Elephant Man") | |
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| Other Nominees: Jane Alexander (First Monday In October); Frances Sternhagen (On Golden Pond) | |
| 1978 Jessica Tandy ("The Gin Game") | |
| Other Nominees: Anne Bancroft (Golda); Anita Gillette (Chapter Two); Estelle Parsons (Miss Margarida's Way) | |
| 1977 Julie Harris ("The Belle of Amherst") | |
| Other Nominees: Colleen Dewhurst (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?); Liv Ullmann (Anna Christie); Irene Worth (The Cherry Orchard) | |
| 1976 Irene Worth ("Sweet Bird Of Youth") | |
| Other Nominees: Tovah Feldshuh (Yentl); Rosemary Harris (The Royal Family); Lynn Redgrave (Mrs Warren's Profession) | |
| 1975 Ellen Burstyn ("Same Time Next Year") | |
| Other Nominees: Elizabeth Ashley (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof); Diana Rigg (The Misanthrope); Maggie Smith (Private Lives); Liv Ullmann (A Doll's House) | |
| 1974 Colleen Dewhurst ("A Moon For the Misbegotten") | 
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| Other Nominees: Jane Alexander (Find Your Way Home); Julie Harris (The Au Pair Man); Madeline Kahn (Boom Boom Boom); Rachel Roberts () | |
| 1973 Julie Harris ("The Last of Mrs Lincoln") | |
| Other Nominees: Jane Alexander (6 Rms Riv Vu); Colleen Dewhurst (Mourning Becomes Electra); Kathleen Widdoes (Much Ado About Nothing) | |
| 1972 Sada Thompson ("Twigs") | |
| Other Nominees: Eileen Atkins (Vivat! Vivat! Regina!); Colleen Dewhurst (All Over); Rosemary Harris (Old Times) | |
| 1971 Maureen Stapleton ("The Gingerbread Lady") | |
| Other Nominees: Estelle Parsons (And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little); Diana Rigg (Abelard and Heloise); Marian Seldes (Father's Day) | |
| 1970 Tammy Grimes ("Private Lives") | |
| Other Nominees: Geraldine Brooks (Brightower); Helen Hayes (Harvey) | |
| 1969 Julie Harris ("Forty Carats") | |
| Other Nominees: Estelle Parsons (Seven Descents of Myrtle); Charlotte Rea (Morning Noon and Night); Brenda Vaccaro (The Goodbye People) | |
| 1968 Zoe Caldwell ("The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie") | |
| Other Nominees: Colleen Dewhurst (More Stately Mansions); Maureen Stapleton (Plaza Suite); Dorothy Tutin (Portrait of a Queen) | |
| 1967 Beryl Reid ("The Killing Of Sister George") | |
| Other Nominees: Eileen Atkins (The Killing of Sister George); Vivien Merchant (The Homecoming); Rosemary Murphy (A Delicate Balance) | |
| 1966 Rosemary Harris ("The Lion In Winter") | |
| Other Nominees: Sheila Hancock (Entertaining Mr Sloan); Kate Reid (Slapstick Tragedy); Lee Remick (Wait Until Dark) | |
| 1965 Irene Worth ("Tiny Alice") | |
| Other Nominees: Marjorie Rhodes (All in Good Time); Beah Richards (The Amen Corner); Diana Sands (The Owl and the Pussycat) | |
| 1964 Sandy Dennis ("Any Wednesday") | |
| Other Nominees: Elizabeth Ashley (Barefoot In the Park); Colleen Dewhurst (The Ballad of the Sad Cafe); Julie Harris (Marathon 33) | |
| 1963 Uta Hagen ("Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?") | |
| Other Nominees: Hermione Baddeley (The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore); Margaret Leighton (Tchin-Tchin); Claudia McNeil (Tiger Tiger Burning Bright) | |
| 1962 Margaret Leighton ("The Night of the Iguana") | |
| Other Nominees: Gladys Cooper (A Passage To India); Colleen Dewhurst (Great Day In the Morning); Kim Stanley (A Far Country) | |
| 1961 Joan Plowright ("A Taste Of Honey") | 
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| Other Nominees: Tallulah Bankhead (Midgie Purvis); Barbara Baxley (Period of Adjustment); Barbara Bel Geddes (Mary Mary) | |
| 1960 Anne Bancroft ("The Miracle Worker") | |
| Other Nominees: Margaret Leighton (Much Ado About Nothing); Claudia McNeil (A Raisin In the Sun); Geraldine Page (Sweet Bird of Youth); Maureen Stapleton (Toys In the Attic); Irene Worth (Toys in the Attic) | |
| 1959 Gertrude Berg ("A Majority Of One") | 
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| Other Nominees: Claudette Colbert (The Marriage-Go-Round); Lynn Fontanne (The Visit); Kim Stanley (A Touch Of the Poet); Maureen Stapleton (The Cold Wind and the Warm) | |
| 1958 Helen Hayes ("Time Remembered") | |
| Other Nominees: Wendy Hiller (A Moon For the Misbegotten); Eugenie Leontovich (The Cave Dwellers); Siobhan McKenna (The Rope Dancers); Mary Ure (Look Back In Anger); Jo Van Fleet (Look Homeward Angel) | |
| 1957 Margaret Leighton ("Separate Tables") | |
| Other Nominees: Florence Eldridge (Long Day's Journey Into Night); Rosalind Russell (Auntie Mame); Sybil Thorndike (The Potting Shed) | |
| 1956 Julie Harris ("The Lark") | |
| Other Nominees: Barbara Bel Geddes (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof); Gladys Cooper (The Chalk Garden); Ruth Gordon (The Matchmaker); Siobhan McKenna (The Chalk Garden); Susan Strasberg (The Diary of Anne Frank) | |
| 1955 Nancy Kelly ("The Bad Seed") | |
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| 1954 Audrey Hepburn ("Ondine") | |
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| 1953 Shirley Booth ("Time of the Cuckoo") | |
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| 1952 Julie Harris ("I Am A Camera") | |
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| 1951 Uta Hagen ("The Country Girl") | |
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| 1950 Shirley Booth ("Come Back Little Sheba") | |
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| 1949 Martita Hunt ("The Madwoman of Chaillot") | |
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| 1948 Judith Anderson ("Medea") | |
| Other Nominees: Katharine Cornell (Antony and Cleopatra); Jessica Tandy (A Streetcar Named Desire) | |
| 1947 Ingrid Bergman ("Joan of Lorraine") | |
| Other Nominees: Helen Hayes (Happy Birthday) | |
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