Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical

The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical has been presented since 1950. The award was not given at the first three Tony Award ceremonies. Nominees were not announced publicly until 1956.

Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical
2023 recipient: Bonnie Milligan for Kimberly Akimbo
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
Location	United States New York City
Presented by	American Theatre Wing, The Broadway League
Currently held by	Bonnie Milligan for Kimberly Akimbo (2023)
Website	TonyAwards.com

Winners and nominees

  indicates the winner

1950s

Year	Actress	Musical	Character
1950 (4th)
	Juanita Hall	South Pacific	Bloody Mary
1951 (5th)
	Isabel Bigley	Guys and Dolls	Sarah Brown
1952 (6th)
	Helen Gallagher	Pal Joey	Gladys Bumps
1953 (7th)
	Sheila Bond	Wish You Were Here	Fay Fromkin
1954 (8th)
	Gwen Verdon	Can-Can	Claudine
1955 (9th)
	Carol Haney	The Pajama Game	Gladys Hotchkiss
1956 (10th) ^[1]
	Lotte Lenya	The Threepenny Opera	Jenny
	Rae Allen	Damn Yankees	Gloria Thorpe
	Pat Carroll	Catch a Star!	Various Characters
	Judy Tyler	Pipe Dream	Suzy
1957 (11th) ^[2]
	Edie Adams	Lil' Abner	Daisy Mae
	Virginia Gibson	Happy Hunting	Beth Livingstone
	Irra Petina	Candide	The Old Lady / Madame Sofronia
	Jo Sullivan Loesser	The Most Happy Fella	Rosabella
1958 (12th) ^[3]
	Barbara Cook	The Music Man	Marian Paroo
	Susan Johnson	Oh, Captain!	Mae
	Carol Lawrence	West Side Story	Maria
	Jackie McKeever	Oh, Captain!	Mrs. Maud St.James
	Josephine Premice	Jamaica	Ginger
1959 (13th) ^[4]
	Pat Stanley	Goldilocks	Lois Lee
	Julienne Marie	Whoop-Up	Mary Champlain

1960s

Year	Actress	Musical	Character
1960 (14th) ^[5]
	Patricia Neway	The Sound of Music	The Mother Abbess
	Sandra Church	Gypsy	Louise
	Pert Kelton	Greenwillow	Gramma Briggs
	Lauri Peters and Kathy Dunn, Evanna Lien, Mary Susan Locke, Marilyn Robers, William Snowden and Joseph Stewart	The Sound of Music	Liesl von Trapp and the other six von Trapp children
1961 (15th) ^[6]
	Tammy Grimes	The Unsinkable Molly Brown	Molly Tobin
	Nancy Dussault	Do Re Mi	Tilda Mullen
	Chita Rivera	Bye Bye Birdie	Rosie Alvarez
1962 (16th) ^[7]
	Phyllis Newman	Subways Are for Sleeping	Martha Vail
	Elizabeth Allen	The Gay Life	Magda
	Barbara Harris	From the Second City	Various Characters
	Barbra Streisand	I Can Get It for You Wholesale	Miss Marmelstein
1963 (17th) ^[8]
	Anna Quayle	Stop the World – I Want to Get Off	Evie / Anya / Ilse / Ginnie
	Ruth Kobart	A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum	Domina
	Virginia Martin	Little Me	Young Belle Poitrine
	Louise Troy	Tovarich	Natalia Mayovskaya
1964 (18th) ^[9]
	Tessie O'Shea	The Girl Who Came to Supper	Ada Cockle
	Julienne Marie	Foxy	Celia
	Kay Medford	Funny Girl	Rose Brice
	Louise Troy	High Spirits	Ruth Condomine
1965 (19th) ^[10]
	Maria Karnilova	Fiddler on the Roof	Golde
	Luba Lisa	I Had a Ball	Addie
	Carrie Nye	Half a Sixpence	Helen Walsingham
	Barbara Windsor	Oh, What a Lovely War!	Various Characters
1966 (20th) ^[11]
	Bea Arthur	Mame	Vera Charles
	Helen Gallagher	Sweet Charity	Nickie
	Patricia Marand	It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman	Lois Lane
	Charlotte Rae	Pickwick	Mrs. Bardell
1967 (21st) ^[12]
	Peg Murray	Cabaret	Fraulein Kost
	Leland Palmer	A Joyful Noise	Miss Jimmie
	Josephine Premice	A Hand Is on the Gate	Various Characters
	Susan Watson	A Joyful Noise	Jenny Lee
1968 (22nd) ^[13]
	Lillian Hayman	Hallelujah, Baby!	Momma
	Geula Gill	The Grand Music Hall of Israel	Various Characters
	Julie Gregg	The Happy Time	Laurie Mannon
	Alice Playten	Henry, Sweet Henry	Lillian 'Lili' Kafritz
1969 (23rd) ^[14]
	Marian Mercer	Promises, Promises	Marge MacDougall
	Sandy Duncan	Canterbury Tales	Molly / Allison / May / The Sweetheart
	Lorraine Serabian	Zorba	Leader
	Virginia Vestoff	1776	Abigail Adams

1970s

Year	Actress	Musical	Character
1970 (24th) ^[15]
	Melba Moore	Purlie	Lutiebell Gussie Mae Jenkins
	Bonnie Franklin	Applause	Bonnie the Gypsy
	Penny Fuller		Eve Harrington
	Melissa Hart	Georgy	Meredith
1971 (25th) ^[16]
	Patsy Kelly	No, No, Nanette	Pauline
	Barbara Barrie	Company	Sarah
	Pamela Myers		Marta
1972 (26th) ^[17]
	Linda Hopkins	Inner City	Various Characters
	Adrienne Barbeau	Grease	Betty Rizzo
	Bernadette Peters	On the Town	Hildy Esterhazy
	Beatrice Winde	Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death	Various Characters
1973 (27th) ^[18]
	Patricia Elliott	A Little Night Music	Countess Charlotte Malcolm
	Hermione Gingold	A Little Night Music	Madame Armfeldt
	Patsy Kelly	Irene	Mrs. O'Dare
	Irene Ryan	Pippin	Berthe
1974 (28th) ^[19]
	Janie Sell	Over Here!	Mitzi
	Leigh Beery	Cyrano	Roxana
	Maureen Brennan	Candide	Cunégonde
	June Gable		The Old Lady
	Ernestine Jackson	Raisin	Ruth Younger
1975 (29th) ^[20]
	Dee Dee Bridgewater	The Wiz	Glinda
	Susan Browning	Goodtime Charley	Agnès Sorel
	Zan Charisse	Gypsy	Louise
	Taina Elg	Where's Charley?	Donna Lucia D'Alvadorez
	Kelly Garrett	The Night That Made America Famous	Various Characters
	Donna Theodore	Shenandoah	Ann Anderson
1976 (30th) ^[21]
	Kelly Bishop	A Chorus Line	Sheila Bryant
	Priscilla Lopez	A Chorus Line	Diana Morales
	Patti LuPone	The Robber Bridegroom	Rosamund Musgrove
	Virginia Seidel	Very Good Eddie	Elsie Darling
1977 (31st) ^[22]
	Delores Hall	Your Arms Too Short to Box with God	Various Characters
	Ellen Greene	The Threepenny Opera	Jenny
	Millicent Martin	Side by Side by Sondheim	Various Characters
	Julia McKenzie		Various Characters
1978 (32nd) ^[23]
	Nell Carter	Ain't Misbehavin'	Nell
	Imogene Coca	On the Twentieth Century	Letitia Primrose
	Ann Reinking	Dancin'	Various Characters
	Charlayne Woodard	Ain't Misbehavin'	Charlayne
1979 (33rd) ^[24]
	Carlin Glynn	The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas	Mona Stangley
	Joan Ellis	The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas	Shy
	Millicent Martin	King of Hearts	Madame Madeleine
	Maxine Sullivan	My Old Friends	Mrs. Cooper

1980s

Year	Actress	Musical	Character
1980 (34th) ^[25]
	Priscilla Lopez	A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine	Gino / Usherette
	Debbie Allen	West Side Story	Anita
	Glenn Close	Barnum	Charity 'Chairy' Barnum
	Josie de Guzman	West Side Story	Maria
1981 (35th) ^[26]
	Marilyn Cooper	Woman of the Year	Jan Donovan
	Phyllis Hyman	Sophisticated Ladies	Various Characters
	Wanda Richert	42nd Street	Peggy Sawyer
	Lynne Thigpen	Tintypes	Sussanah
1982 (36th) ^[27]
	Liliane Montevecchi	Nine	Liliane La Fleur
	Karen Akers	Nine	Luisa Contini
	Laurie Beechman	Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat	The Narrator
	Anita Morris	Nine	Carla Albanese
1983 (37th) ^[28]
	Betty Buckley	Cats	Grizabella
	Christine Andreas	On Your Toes	Frankie Frayne
	Karla Burns	Show Boat	Queenie
	Denny Dillon	My One and Only	Mickey
1984 (38th) ^[29]
	Lila Kedrova	Zorba	Madame Hortense
	Martine Allard	The Tap Dance Kid	Emma
	Liz Callaway	Baby	Lizzie Fields
	Dana Ivey	Sunday in the Park with George	Yvonne / Naomi Eisen
1985 (39th)
	Leilani Jones	Grind	Satin
	Evalyn Baron	Quilters	Daughter of the Frontier
	Mary Beth Peil	The King and I	Anna Leonowens
	Lenka Peterson	Quilters	Sarah
1986 (40th) ^[30]
	Bebe Neuwirth	Sweet Charity	Nickie
	Patti Cohenour	The Mystery of Edwin Drood	Rosa Bud / Deirdre Peregrine
	Jana Schneider		Helena Landless / Janet Conover
	Elisabeth Welch	Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood	Various Characters
1987 (41st) ^[31]
	Frances Ruffelle	Les Misérables	Éponine
	Jane Connell	Me and My Girl	Duchess Maria
	Judy Kuhn	Les Misérables	Cosette
	Jane Summerhays	Me and My Girl	Jaqueline 'Jackie' Carstone
1988 (42nd) ^[32]
	Judy Kaye	The Phantom of the Opera	Carlotta Guidicelli
	Leleti Khumalo	Sarafina!	Sarafina
	Alyson Reed	Cabaret	Sally Bowles
	Regina Resnik		Fraulein Schneider
1989 (43rd) ^[33]
	Debbie Gravitte	Jerome Robbins' Broadway	Hildy Esterhazy / Mazeppa / Rosalia / Company
	Jane Lanier	Jerome Robbins' Broadway	Various Characters
	Faith Prince		Ma / Tessie / Company
	Julie Wilson	Legs Diamond	Flo

1990s

Year	Actress	Musical	Character
1990 (44th) ^[34]
	Randy Graff	City of Angels	Oolie / Donna
	Jane Krakowski	Grand Hotel	Freida Flamm / Flaemmchen
	Kathleen Rowe McAllen	Aspects of Love	Giulietta Trapani
	Crista Moore	Gypsy	Louise
1991 (45th) ^[35]
	Daisy Eagan	The Secret Garden	Mary Lennox
	Alison Fraser	The Secret Garden	Martha Sowerby
	Cady Huffman	The Will Rogers Follies	Ziegfeld's Favorite
	LaChanze	Once on This Island	Ti Moune
1992 (46th) ^[36]
	Tonya Pinkins	Jelly's Last Jam	Anita
	Liz Larsen	The Most Happy Fella	Cleo
	Vivian Reed	The High Rollers Social and Pleasure Club	Enchantress
	Barbara Walsh	Falsettos	Trina
1993 (47th) ^[37]
	Andrea Martin	My Favorite Year	Alice Miller
	Marcia Mitzman Gaven	The Who's Tommy	Nora Walker
	Jan Graveson	Blood Brothers	Linda
	Lainie Kazan	My Favorite Year	Belle Carroca
1994 (48th) ^[38]
	Audra McDonald	Carousel	Carrie Pipperidge
	Marcia Lewis	Grease	Miss Lynch
	Sally Mayes	She Loves Me	Ilona Ritter
	Marin Mazzie	Passion	Clara
1995 (49th) ^[39]
	Gretha Boston	Show Boat	Queenie
	Brenda Braxton	Smokey Joe's Cafe	Various Characters
	B.J. Crosby
	DeLee Lively
1996 (50th) ^[40]
	Ann Duquesnay	Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk	'da Singer / The Chanteuse
	Joohee Choi	The King and I	Tuptim
	Veanne Cox	Company	Amy
	Idina Menzel	Rent	Maureen Johnson
1997 (51st) ^[41]
	Lillias White	The Life	Sonja
	Marcia Lewis	Chicago	Matron Mama Morton
	Andrea Martin	Candide	The Old Lady
	Debra Monk	Steel Pier	Shelby Stevens
1998 (52nd) ^[42]
	Audra McDonald	Ragtime	Sarah
	Anna Kendrick	High Society	Dinah Lord
	Tsidii Le Loka	The Lion King	Rafiki
	Mary Louise Wilson	Cabaret	Fraulein Schneider
1999 (53rd) ^[43]
	Kristin Chenoweth	You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown	Sally Brown
	Gretha Boston	It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues	Various Characters
	Valarie Pettiford	Fosse	Various Characters
	Mary Testa	On the Town	Madame Maude P. Dilly

2000s

Year	Actress	Musical	Character
2000 (54th) ^[44]
	Karen Ziemba	Contact	Wife
	Laura Benanti	Swing!	Various Characters
	Ann Hampton Callaway		Various Characters
	Eartha Kitt	The Wild Party	Dolores
	Deborah Yates	Contact	Girl in a Yellow Dress / Gina Minetti
2001 (55th) ^[45]
	Cady Huffman	The Producers	Ulla
	Polly Bergen	Follies	Carlotta Campion
	Kathleen Freeman	The Full Monty	Jeanette Burmeister
	Kate Levering	42nd Street	Peggy Sawyer
	Mary Testa		Maggie Jones
2002 (56th) ^[46]
	Harriet Sansom Harris	Thoroughly Modern Millie	Mrs. Meers
	Laura Benanti	Into the Woods	Cinderella
	Spencer Kayden	Urinetown	Little Sally
	Judy Kaye	Mamma Mia!	Rosie Mulligan
	Andrea Martin	Oklahoma!	Aunt Eller
2003 (57th) ^[47]
	Jane Krakowski	Nine	Carla Albanese
	Tammy Blanchard	Gypsy	Louise
	Mary Stuart Masterson	Nine	Luisa Contini
	Chita Rivera		Liliane La Fleur
	Ashley Tuttle	Movin' Out	Judy
2004 (58th) ^[48]
	Anika Noni Rose	Caroline, or Change	Emmie Thibodeaux
	Beth Fowler	The Boy from Oz	Marion Woolnough
	Isabel Keating		Judy Garland
	Jennifer Westfeldt	Wonderful Town	Eileen Sherwood
	Karen Ziemba	Never Gonna Dance	Mabel Pritt
2005 (59th) ^[49]
	Sara Ramirez	Spamalot	Lady of the Lake
	Joanna Gleason	Dirty Rotten Scoundrels	Muriel Eubanks
	Celia Keenan-Bolger	The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee	Olive Ostrovsky
	Jan Maxwell	Chitty Chitty Bang Bang	Baroness Bomburst
	Kelli O'Hara	The Light in the Piazza	Clara Johnson
2006 (60th) ^[50]
	Beth Leavel	The Drowsy Chaperone	The Drowsy Chaperone / Beatrice Stockwell
	Carolee Carmello	Lestat	Gabrielle de Lioncourt
	Felicia P. Fields	The Color Purple	Sofia Johnson
	Megan Lawrence	The Pajama Game	Gladys Hotchkiss
	Elisabeth Withers	The Color Purple	Shug Avery
2007 (61st) ^[51]
	Mary Louise Wilson	Grey Gardens	'Big Edie' Beale
	Charlotte d'Amboise	A Chorus Line	Cassie Ferguson
	Rebecca Luker	Mary Poppins	Winifred Banks
	Orfeh	Legally Blonde	Paulette Bonafonté
	Karen Ziemba	Curtains	Georgia Hendricks
2008 (62nd) ^[52]
	Laura Benanti	Gypsy	Louise
	Loretta Ables Sayre	South Pacific	Bloody Mary
	De'Adre Aziza	Passing Strange	Edwina / Marianna / Sudabey
	Andrea Martin	Young Frankenstein	Frau Blücher
	Olga Merediz	In the Heights	Abuela Claudia
2009 (63rd) ^[53]
	Karen Olivo	West Side Story	Anita
	Jennifer Damiano	Next to Normal	Natalie Goodman
	Haydn Gwynne	Billy Elliot the Musical	Georgia Wilkinson
	Carole Shelley		Grandma
	Martha Plimpton	Pal Joey	Gladys Bumps

2010s

Year	Actress	Musical	Character
2010 (64th) ^[54]
	Katie Finneran	Promises, Promises	Marge MacDougall
	Barbara Cook	Sondheim on Sondheim	Various Characters
	Angela Lansbury	A Little Night Music	Madame Armfeldt
	Karine Plantadit	Come Fly Away	Kate
	Lillias White	Fela!	Funmilayo Kuti
2011 (65th) ^[55]
	Nikki M. James	The Book of Mormon	Nabulungi Hatimbi
	Laura Benanti	Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown	Candela
	Tammy Blanchard	How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying	Hedy La Rue
	Victoria Clark	Sister Act	Mother Superior
	Patti LuPone	Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown	Lucia
2012 (66th) ^[56]
	Judy Kaye	Nice Work If You Can Get It	Estonia Dulworth
	Elizabeth A. Davis	Once	Réza
	Jayne Houdyshell	Follies	Hattie Walker
	Jessie Mueller	On a Clear Day You Can See Forever	Melinda Wells
	Da'Vine Joy Randolph	Ghost the Musical	Oda Mae Brown
2013 (67th) ^[57]
	Andrea Martin	Pippin	Berthe
	Annaleigh Ashford	Kinky Boots	Lauren
	Victoria Clark	Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella	Marie / Fairy Godmother
	Keala Settle	Hands on a Hardbody	Norma Valverde
	Lauren Ward	Matilda the Musical	Miss Jennifer "Jenny" Honey
2014 (68th) ^[58]
	Lena Hall	Hedwig and the Angry Inch	Yitzhak
	Linda Emond	Cabaret	Fräulein Schneider
	Anika Larsen	Beautiful: The Carole King Musical	Cynthia Weil
	Adriane Lenox	After Midnight	Various Characters
	Lauren Worsham	A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder	Phoebe D'Ysquith
2015 (69th) ^[59]
	Ruthie Ann Miles	The King and I	Lady Thiang
	Victoria Clark	Gigi	Mamita
	Judy Kuhn	Fun Home	Helen Fontana Bechdel
	Sydney Lucas		Small Alison
	Emily Skeggs		Medium Alison
2016 (70th) ^[60]
	Renée Elise Goldsberry	Hamilton	Angelica Schuyler
	Danielle Brooks	The Color Purple	Sofia Johnson
	Jane Krakowski	She Loves Me	Ilona Ritter
	Jennifer Simard	Disaster!	Sister Mary Downy
	Adrienne Warren	Shuffle Along	Gertrude Saunders / Florence Mills
2017 (71st) ^[61]
	Rachel Bay Jones	Dear Evan Hansen	Heidi Hansen
	Kate Baldwin	Hello, Dolly!	Irene Molloy
	Stephanie J. Block	Falsettos	Trina
	Jenn Colella	Come from Away	Annette, Beverley Bass, and others
	Mary Beth Peil	Anastasia	Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna
2018 (72nd) ^[62]
	Lindsay Mendez	Carousel	Carrie Pipperidge
	Ariana DeBose	Summer: The Donna Summer Musical	Disco Donna
	Renée Fleming	Carousel	Nettie Fowler
	Ashley Park	Mean Girls	Gretchen Wieners
	Diana Rigg	My Fair Lady	Mrs. Higgins
2019 (73rd) ^[63]
	Ali Stroker	Oklahoma!	Ado Annie Carnes
	Lilli Cooper	Tootsie	Julie Nichols
	Amber Gray	Hadestown	Persephone
	Sarah Stiles	Tootsie	Sandy Lester
	Mary Testa	Oklahoma!	Aunt Eller

2020s

Year	Actress	Musical	Character
2020 (74th)
	Lauren Patten	Jagged Little Pill	Jo Taylor
	Kathryn Gallagher	Jagged Little Pill	Bella Fox
	Celia Rose Gooding		Frankie Healy
	Robyn Hurder	Moulin Rouge!	Nini Legs-in-the-Air
	Myra Lucretia Taylor	Tina	Gran Georgeanna
2022 (75th) ^[64]
	Patti LuPone	Company	Joanne
	Jeannette Bayardelle	Girl from the North Country	Mrs. Neilsen
	Shoshana Bean	Mr. Saturday Night	Susan Young
	Jayne Houdyshell	The Music Man	Mrs. Shinn
	L Morgan Lee	A Strange Loop	Thought 1
	Jennifer Simard	Company	Sarah
2023 (76th) ^[65]
	Bonnie Milligan	Kimberly Akimbo	Aunt Debra
	Julia Lester	Into the Woods	Little Red Ridinghood
	Ruthie Ann Miles	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street	The Beggar Woman
	NaTasha Yvette Williams	Some Like It Hot	Sweet Sue
	Betsy Wolfe	& Juliet	Anne Hathaway

Win total

2 Wins

• Judy Kaye
• Andrea Martin
• Audra McDonald

Nomination total

5 Nominations Andrea Martin 4 Nominations Laura Benanti 3 Nominations Victoria Clark Judy Kaye Jane Krakowski Patti LuPone Mary Testa Karen Ziemba

2 Nominations Tammy Blanchard Gretha Boston Barbara Cook Helen Gallagher Jayne Houdyshell Cady Huffman Patsy Kelly Judy Kuhn Marcia Lewis Priscilla Lopez Julienne Marie Millicent Martin Audra McDonald Ruthie Ann Miles Mary Beth Peil Josephine Premice Chita Rivera Jennifer Simard Louise Troy Lillias White Mary Louise Wilson

Character win total

2 Wins

• Carrie Pipperidge from Carousel
• Marge MacDougall from Promises, Promises

Character nomination total

5 Nominations Louise from Gypsy 3 Nominations Fraulein Schneider from Cabaret The Old Lady from Candide

2 Nominations Anita from West Side Story Aunt Eller from Oklahoma! Berthe from Pippin Bloody Mary from South Pacific Carla Albanese from Nine Carrie Pipperidge from Carousel Gladys Bumps from Pal Joey Gladys Hotchkiss from The Pajama Game Hildy Esterhazy from On the Town and Jerome Robbins' Broadway Ilona Ritter from She Loves Me Jenny from The Threepenny Opera Liliane La Fleur from Nine Luisa Contini from Nine Madame Armfeldt from A Little Night Music Marge MacDougall from Promises, Promises Maria from West Side Story Nickie from Sweet Charity Peggy Sawyer from 42nd Street Queenie from Show Boat Sarah from Company Sofia Johnson from The Color Purple Trina from Falsettos

Productions with multiple nominations

Winners are in boldface

• The Sound of Music – Patricia Neway and Lauri Peters, Kathy Dunn, Evanna Lien, Mary Susan Locke, Marilyn Robers, William Snowden* & Joseph Stewart
• A Joyful Noise – Leland Palmer and Susan Watson
• Applause – Bonnie Franklin and Penny Fuller
• Company – Barbara Barrie and Pamela Myers (This is the first time the show had multiple nominations)
• A Little Night Music – Patricia Elliott and Hermione Gingold
• Candide – Maureen Brennan and June Gable
• A Chorus Line – Kelly Bishop and Priscilla Lopez
• Side by Side by Sondheim – Millicent Martin and Julia McKenzie
• Ain't Misbehavin' – Nell Carter and Charlayne Woodard
• The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas – Carlin Glynn and Joan Ellis
• West Side Story – Debbie Allen and Josie de Guzman
• Nine – Karen Akers, Liliane Montevecchi, and Anita Morris (This is the first time the show had multiple nominations)
• Quilters – Evalon Baron and Lenka Peterson
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood – Patti Cohenour and Jana Schneider
• Les Misérables – Frances Ruffelle and Judy Kuhn
• Me and My Girl – Jane Connell and Jane Summerhays (Les Misérables and Me and My Girl were nominated the same year)
• Cabaret – Alyson Reed and Regina Resnik
• Jerome Robbins' Broadway – Debbie Gravitte, Jane Lanier, and Faith Prince
• The Secret Garden – Daisy Eagan and Alison Fraser
• Smokey Joe's Cafe – Brenda Braxton, B.J. Crosby, and DeLee Lively
• Contact – Deborah Yates and Karen Ziemba
• Swing! – Laura Benanti and Ann Hampton Callaway (Contact and Swing! were nominated the same year)
• 42nd Street – Kate Levering and Mary Testa
• Nine – Jane Krakowski, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Chita Rivera (This is the second time the show had multiple nominations)
• The Boy from Oz – Beth Fowler and Isabel Keating
• The Color Purple – Felicia P. Fields and Elisabeth Withers
• Billy Elliot the Musical – Haydn Gwynne and Carole Shelley
• Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown – Laura Benanti and Patti LuPone
• Fun Home – Judy Kuhn, Sydney Lucas, and Emily Skeggs
• Carousel – Renée Fleming and Lindsay Mendez
• Oklahoma! – Ali Stroker and Mary Testa
• Tootsie – Lilli Cooper and Sarah Stiles (Oklahoma! and Tootsie were nominated the same year)
• Jagged Little Pill – Kathryn Gallagher, Celia Rose Gooding, and Lauren Patten
• Company – Patti LuPone and Jennifer Simard (This is the second time the show had multiple nominations)

Multiple awards and nominations

Actress who have been nominated multiple times in any acting categories

Awards Nominations Recipient 6 10 Audra McDonald 5 10 Julie Harris 7 Angela Lansbury 4 6 Gwen Verdon 4 Zoe Caldwell 3 8 Patti LuPone 5 Irene Worth Jessica Tandy 4 Glenn Close Mary Martin 3 Shirley Booth 2 10 Chita Rivera 8 Colleen Dewhurst 7 Bernadette Peters Frances Sternhagen Sutton Foster 6 Andrea Martin Laurie Metcalf Maureen Stapleton 5 Victoria Clark Cherry Jones Donna Murphy Mary-Louise Parker Swoosie Kurtz 4 Christine Ebersole Cynthia Nixon Judith Ivey Judy Kaye Margaret Leighton 3 Anne Bancroft Helen Gallagher Helen Hayes Jennifer Ehle Judith Light Liza Minnelli Phylicia Rashad Viola Davis 2 Bebe Neuwirth Christine Baranski Katie Finneran Lauren Bacall Sandy Dennis Tammy Grimes Uta Hagen 1 9 Rosemary Harris 8 Jane Alexander Stockard Channing 7 Kelli O'Hara 6 Linda Lavin 5 Glenda Jackson Jayne Houdyshell Laura Benanti Marian Seldes 4 Blythe Danner Carol Channing Carole Shelley Celia Keenan-Bolger Debra Monk Diana Rigg Faith Prince Jessie Mueller Julie White Karen Ziemba LaChanze Madeline Kahn 3 Amanda Plummer Annaleigh Ashford Barbara Harris Beth Leavel Dorothy Loudon Elizabeth Ashley Elizabeth Franz Ethel Merman Helen Mirren Idina Menzel Jane Krakowski Janet McTeer Joanna Gleason Kristin Chenoweth Lois Smith Maggie Smith Mercedes Ruehl Rae Allen Stephanie J. Block Tonya Pinkins Tyne Daly Vanessa Redgrave 2 Adriane Lenox Adrienne Warren Alexis Smith Alice Ghostly Alice Ripley Anika Noni Rose Anna Manahan Barbara Cook Betty Buckley Cady Huffman Dolores Gray Frances McDormand Gretha Boston Jo Van Fleet Joan Allen Joaquina Kalukango Judith Anderson Karen Olivo Leora Dana Leslie Uggams Liliane Montevecchi Lillias White Linda Hopkins Lindsay Duncan Lotte Lenya Lynne Thigpen Marcia Gay Harden Margaret Tyzack Maria Karnilova Mary Alice Mary Louise Wilson Nanette Fabray Natasha Richardson Nina Arianda Patina Miller Patricia Elliott Patsy Kelly Phyllis Newman Priscilla Lopez Randy Graff Rosalind Russell Ruthie Ann Miles Shirley Knight Sophie Okonedo

Nominations Recipient 5 Dana Ivey Laura Linney Estelle Parsons Jan Maxwell 4 Condola Rashad Eileen Atkins Elaine Stritch Geraldine Page Judy Kuhn Kate Nelligan Tovah Feldshuh Zoë Wanamaker 3 Brenda Vaccaro Carolee Carmello Dee Hoty Eileen Heckart Julie Andrews Kate Burton Linda Emond Louise Troy Lynn Redgrave Marin Mazzie Martha Plimpton Mary Beth Hurt Mary Testa Rebecca Luker Rosemary Murphy Sandy Duncan 2 Alison Fraser Allison Janney Amy Morton Amy Ryan Ann Reinking Anne Pitoniak Annette Bening Barbara Bel Geddes Barbra Streisand Beatrice Lillie Beth Fowler Carmen Cusack Carol Burnett Charlotte d'Amboise Charlotte Rae Christine Andreas Claudia McNeil Crista Moore Daphne Rubin-Vega Debbie Allen Diana Sands Eartha Kitt Elizabeth Allen Ernestine Jackson Eva Noblezada Eve Best Fionnula Flanagan Georgia Brown Gladys Cooper Inga Swenson Jane Fonda Jayne Atkinson Jennifer Simard Jessica Hecht Johanna Day Josephine Premice Josie de Guzman Julienne Marie Kate Baldwin Kara Young Kate Reid Katharine Hepburn Kathleen Turner Kim Stanley Kristine Nielsen Laura Osnes Leland Palmer Liv Ullmann Marcia Lewis Mare Winningham Mary Beth Peil Michele Lee Mildred Natwick Millicent Martin Nancy Dussault Nancy Walker Penny Fuller Pert Kelton Ruth Wilson S. Epatha Merkerson Sarah Stiles Sherie Rene Scott Sinéad Cusack Siobhán McKenna Spencer Kayden Susan Browning Tammy Blanchard Vivian Reed Zohra Lampert

See also

•  Theatre portal

• Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play
• Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play
• Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical
• Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical
• Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Performance in a Musical
• Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical
• List of Tony Award-nominated productions

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External links

• Internet Broadway Database Awards Archive